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Overview

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000 employees and >24,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels and venues to help them grow their groups and meetings business.

Overview

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000 employees and >24,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels and venues to help them grow their groups and meetings business.

Our Principal Architects play a critical role in shaping the technical direction and architectural standards for Cvents platforms and applications. This position involves advanced technical leadership, hands-on architecture, and cross-team influence, as they collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions, while driving modernization and adoption of best-in-class technologies.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the design, development, and debugging of scalable, high-performance, service-based web applications.
• Architect and enhance frameworks and platforms, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives.
• Provide technical guidance and oversight for modernization initiatives, including migration to modern frameworks, decoupling legacy systems, and implementing central package management.
• Drive performance optimization, technical debt reduction, and risk mitigation across multiple teams.
• Evaluate, prototype, and recommend emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools for adoption.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across engineering teams.
• Conduct performance testing using profilers and load-testing tools; identify and resolve application security vulnerabilities.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate on enterprise-wide initiatives such as system modernization, performance testing, and strategic project reviews.

Here's What You Need

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software architecture and development, with a focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in modern software development frameworks and languages (e.g., .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, C#).
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and services (AWS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront), serverless architectures, and performance optimization.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with open source technologies, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, automated testing, deployment).
• Strong understanding of application security, compliance, and risk management.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience mentoring and developing technical talent.
• Experience architecting SaaS platforms or large-scale web applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with secure asset management, content delivery solutions, and regulated environments.
• Track record of successful modernization or transformation projects.
• Staying current with AI advancements through self-driven learning.

Physical Demands

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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