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Principal Software Architect, Finance Technology Platform

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Sunnyvale, CA$262.5k - $394kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Platform-defining technical leadership role to architect and guide Apple’s next-generation Finance Technology Platform. Focus on a multi-tenant, AI-native platform for end-to-end financial processing, with humans in the loop by policy. Not a management role; heavy emphasis on architecture, standards, and technical influence across Finance, Controllership, Tax, and Internal Audit.

Responsibilities

  • Define and govern the end-to-end architecture for the Finance Technology Platform — transaction ingestion, validation, enrichment, matching, approval, position tracking, accounting determination, settlement, and reconciliation — at enterprise scale.
  • Architect the platform as a multi-tenant, multi-entity foundation that hosts applications built by multiple engineering teams: tenant isolation, shared-capability reuse, per-tenant policy and configuration, versioned APIs, and independent release cadence.
  • Own the agentic architecture of the platform: define how AI agents are specified, composed, evaluated, sandboxed, and promoted to production across transaction intake, approval reasoning, document extraction, match adjudication, exception resolution, counterparty correspondence, and settlement optimization.
  • Design the agent harness and its supporting infrastructure — tool/function interfaces over the platform's own APIs, graph-based orchestration and multi-agent hand-off, context assembly and short/long-term memory, retrieval over policy, contract, and master-data corpora, structured output validation, deterministic replay, and cost/latency budgets with graceful degradation to deterministic paths.
  • Establish the evaluation and safety discipline for agentic finance: golden datasets, offline and online evals gating CI, confidence thresholds and human-in-the-loop escalation policy, guardrails against injection via externally supplied documents, full audit trails for agent actions, and clear boundaries where AI is never authoritative.
  • Set the core platform patterns: one canonical document model, saga-based orchestration, a sub-ledger that keeps financial position separate from accounting determination, and business rules as versioned configuration rather than compiled logic.
  • Own financial correctness and SOX controls: immutable event history, exactly-once settlement, full lineage from source document to GL, continuous reconciliation with clear break ownership, and auditable controls designed in rather than bolted on.
  • Be the senior technical voice for Finance Technology: align architecture across teams, partner with Finance, Controllership, Tax, and Audit, and grow the engineers around you.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise in architecting large-scale distributed transactional systems where correctness is non-negotiable.
  • Demonstrated experience as the lead architect of a platform used by multiple engineering teams — multi-tenancy, extensibility, versioned APIs, and configuration-driven behavior.
  • Hands-on experience building AI-native applications in production, including harness engineering: agent runtimes, tool/function calling, structured output validation, graph-based orchestration, context management, and memory systems.
  • Practical depth in the modern agentic stack — retrieval and vector search, embeddings, agent frameworks and graph orchestration libraries, model evaluation and observability tooling, and prompt/context engineering at production scale.
  • Experience designing evaluation, guardrail, and human-in-the-loop strategies for AI systems operating on consequential decisions.
  • Strong foundation in event-driven and event-sourced architecture, saga/workflow orchestration, streaming platforms, change data capture, and transactional data stores.
  • Experience with enterprise financial or transaction-processing domains — ledgers and sub-ledgers, payables, receivables, payments, settlement, or high-volume financial event processing.
  • Experience building or integrating with ERP and financial systems of record, and with document and data ingestion formats and pipelines (EDI, cXML, OCR/document AI, CDC feeds).
  • Experience with regulated, audited, or high-trust systems and their compliance implications.
  • Track record of technical leadership and architectural influence across large, complex organizations.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive, finance, and engineering audiences alike.
  • Demonstrated success mentoring and elevating technical talent across global teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software architectureAI-native platform designEvent-driven and event-sourced architecturesFinancial systems domain knowledge

Benefits

  • Apple benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, and education reimbursement; eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation.
  • Note: Benefit details are subject to eligibility and terms.
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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