Principal Platform Architect

Join the Sony Engagement Platform Services (SEPS) team, where innovation meets collaboration in the dynamic world of digital engagement. Our mission is to unlock meaningful, data-driven engagement across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem, from games and anime to music, film, and live experiences—empowering internal teams and external partners to build at scale. By decoupling application development from platform services, we enable agile, high-quality solutions. If you are passionate about shaping the future of digital engagement and want to be part of a team that values creativity and collaboration, explore the opportunities within SEPS.

Position Summary

As the Principal Platform Architect for the Sony Engagement Platform, you will play a strategic and hands-on role in shaping the technical foundation of a next-generation engagement platform that serves Sony’s global ecosystem—including games, music, film, anime, and live experiences.

You will be responsible for setting the architectural vision, ensuring technical excellence, and driving platform-wide standards across distributed systems, APIs, identity, personalization, and developer enablement services. Partnering closely with engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and extensible platform services that power seamless user experiences and cross-business integrations.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a visionary architect who thrives in complex environments, excels at translating business strategy into technology solutions, and is passionate about building platforms that enable innovation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architectural vision for the Sony Engagement Platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business and technical goals.
• Design and lead the development of core platform services , including APIs, microservices, identity, personalization, and data pipelines, enabling seamless integration across Sony’s global business units.
• Drive architectural consistency and technical excellence , establishing best practices for system design, software development, performance optimization, and observability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, security, and operations to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, high-impact architectural solutions.
• Evaluate and guide technology decisions , performing trade-off analyses and leading the adoption of emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns as appropriate.
• Mentor and influence engineering teams , elevating engineering quality by guiding design reviews, fostering architectural thinking, and advocating for platform-first principles.
• Champion platform scalability and efficiency , ensuring the platform can support rapid growth and a wide variety of use cases across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem.
• Document and communicate architecture standards and decisions , providing clear guidance to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Act as a technical thought leader , representing the platform architecture in strategic planning sessions and helping to shape the overall direction of digital engagement at Sony.
• Define the technical vision, architectural foundation, and engineering standards for a modern, scalable identity platform.
• Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above

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The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $230,000 to $260,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location from which they will perform the job.

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Sony Corporation of America provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at careers@sonyusa.com or by mail to : Sony Corporation of America, Human Resources Department, 25 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Please indicate the position you are applying for.

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