Principal Architect

emagine are currently looking for a Principal Architect for one of our clients within cybersecurity. Among other things, you’ll be in charge of building the architectural and engineering spine that carries the company through further growth.

You’ll be part of an engineering team with 40 team members with a technical strong foundation.
You will work in close partnership with the Head of Product Architecture to shape architecture across the company. You will work closest to the engineering system, platform architecture, core patterns etc.

Ongoing responsibilities

• Set and maintain architectural direction across the product portfolio, keeping the on-prem core and the SaaS control plane evolving as one coherent platform.

• Partner directly with the engineering managers of both delivery teams, aligning architectural direction with their execution plans and resolving cross-team technical trade-offs as they surface.

• Partner with the Head of Product Architecture to translate product direction into engineering designs that are ambitious on capability and conservative on complexity.

• Coach and mentor engineers across both teams, raising the architectural bar of the whole organization through written artefacts, pair sessions, and code review.

• Run technical due diligence on tools, frameworks, and platforms, with a bias toward fewer moving parts.

• Direct fast proofs-of-concept for new cloud, data, and AI technologies before the organization commits serious capacity.

• Represent the client in technical conversations with customers, partners, and in diligence contexts.
  

Who we are looking for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years at Principal, Staff, or Chief Architect level, or equivalent CTO-level seniority in a product company.

• A senior technical architect with deep experience in growing product companies. You have seen what happens when a company scales from small to mid-sized, and you know where the inflection points are.

• Hands-on track record of making pragmatic platform decisions under commercial pressure, including choosing what to formalize now and what to leave loose.

• Working fluency with AI coding agents in production engineering and a considered view of where agentic engineering is heading, without treating AI as the answer to every question.

• Experience with coaching of strong engineers through technical and cultural change, building capability rather than dependency.

• Exposure to technical diligence, whether on the buyer side, the seller side, or as the internal technical lead answering diligence questions.

• Cybersecurity product exposure is a plus; sharp intellectual curiosity about the domain is essential.

• Strong written and verbal English for technical, executive, customer, and partner audiences.

Start: ASAP

Duration: 12 months

Workload: Fulltime + onsite

Location: Copenhagen