Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
We’re transforming the software industry. We’re Flexera. Withmore than 50,000 customersacross the world, we’re achievingthat goal.Butwe knowwe can’t do any of that without our team. Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans? Come and see whywe’re consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and IDCas a category leader in the marketplace. Learn more atflexera.com
At Flexera, we're on a mission to empower global enterprises to optimize every dollar of their technology spend. A recognized leader in Hybrid IT Asset Management (ITAM) and FinOps, our platform transforms raw data into actionable insights that IT, Finance, Procurement, and Cloud teams rely on to drive technology value optimization (TVO).
With Flexera One and our Technology Intelligence Platform, customers visualize their entire Enterprise Technology Blueprint™—from on-premises and SaaS to containers and multi-cloud. Now, we’re looking for a Principal Architect to help us build the future of FinOps.
Your Impact
As a Principal Software Architect for ITAM Solutions, you'll shape the architectural strategy behind our next-generation ITAM capabilities. This is a highly visible, hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll work across teams and products to align solution design with long-term business outcomes. You will collaborate closely with leadership, architects, and product teams to evaluate and select the best technical solutions, with a focus on strategic initiatives beyond the next quarter.
You’ll lead efforts to unify data and user experiences across applications, drive architectural consistency through shared services and APIs, and help to embed AI capabilities that scale across the portfolio. This role also plays a critical part in improving developer experience, aligning platform and product concerns, and supporting enterprise-grade security and compliance. It’s a unique opportunity to influence the future of our applications and drive improvements in how we build, integrate, and evolve technology across the organization.
What You’ll Do
1. Design and evolve scalable, resilient, and maintainable architecture for solutions in the IT asset management and SaaS management space.
2. Lead solution design during product discovery, translating business goals into scalable technical blueprints.
3. Drive cross-product architectural strategy, working closely with product architects to identify opportunities to build shared services and components that provide value across multiple products.
4. Collaborate across solution areas to ensure platform services support both product needs and broader platform strategy.
5. Ensure architectural alignment across engineering teams, championing consistency and high standards in system design.
6. Partner with product management, security, and engineering teams to ensure architectural decisions support business goals.
7. Author and maintain architectural documentation to guide implementation and facilitate cross-team understanding.
8. Create proof-of-concepts and reference implementations to validate new patterns or technologies.
9. Promote innovation and operational excellence, helping teams navigate trade-offs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market.
Who You Are
10. Experienced systems thinker with 10+ years of experience, including at least 5 years in an architecture role.
11. Broad exposure across domains and technology layers, providing technical leadership to large-scale implementation efforts.
12. Able to align technical decisions with business context, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic trade-offs.
13. Demonstrated ability to partner with platform engineering teams to align application needs with shared infrastructure and services.
14. Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS required; Azure a plus), big data platforms (Databricks), and data visualization tools (Power BI).
15. Experience developing and architecting both cloud-native and traditional monolithic applications.
16. Effective at influencing at the leadership level, clearly communicating architectural vision and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
17. Skilled at partnering with diverse engineering teams through collaborative and empathetic communication.
18. Comfortable leading through ambiguity and driving architectural evolution in complex, fast-paced environments.
19. Committed to mentoring engineers and architects, helping grow technical leadership across the organization.
20. Passionate about making technology simple, explainable, and impactful for real-world users.
Why Join Flexera?
21. Be part of a category leader, trusted by 50,000+ organizations globally.
22. Help shape the future of ITAM architecture in an environment that values innovation, autonomy, and collaboration.
23. Work with smart, passionate teams solving complex problems at scale.
24. Enjoy a flexible hybrid working model with strong support for professional development and growth.
25. Thrive in a culture that actively supports diversity, equity, and inclusion—and takes it seriously.
At Flexera, we believe in doing the right thing—for our customers, our people, and the world. If you're ready to architect meaningful systems that transform how companies manage their technology investments, we'd love to meet you.
Ready to reimagine ITAM with us? Apply today by emailing
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