--- title: 'Principal Architect-Network at Reltio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-architect-network-reltio-united-states-trq02enb87ye' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Principal Architect-Network at Reltio - **Company:** Reltio - **Location:** United States - **Posted:** 2026-06-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reltio/jobs/6030357004 ## Job description Role: Principal Architect Reports to: Global Head of Technology (SVP Engineering) Function: Platform & Product Architecture (Cloud-Native Data/SaaS) ## About Reltio At Reltio®, an SAP Company, we believe data should fuel your success in the enterprise AI era. Our  Context Intelligence Platform turns fragmented data into a trusted, connected context so AI agents and systems can act with expert-level judgement at enterprise scale. Reltio’s cloud-native SaaS platform harmonizes, unifies, and governs data across sources and formats—including unstructured data—in real time, turning them into data assets that can be mobilized in milliseconds to any application, user, or AI agent. Trusted by more than 200 of the world’s largest brands across industries such as life sciences, financial services, healthcare, and technology, we fuel frictionless operations and help enterprises accelerate  innovation and reduce risk. At Reltio, our values guide everything we do. With an unyielding commitment to prioritizing our “Customer First”, we strive to ensure their success. We embrace our differences and are “Better Together” as One Reltio. We are always looking to “Simplify and Share” our knowledge when we collaborate to remove obstacles for each other. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions and outcomes and strive for excellence. We “Own It”. Every day, we innovate and evolve, so that today is “Always Better Than Yesterday”. If you share and embody these values, we invite you to join our team at Reltio and contribute to our mission of excellence. Reltio has earned numerous awards and industry and analyst recognition for our technology, our culture and our people. Reltio was founded on a distributed workforce and offers flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives. If you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to enable digital transformation with connected data, let’s talk! Job overview Reltio is scaling a cloud-native, multi-tenant data platform used by global enterprises. We need a Principal Architect to set the end-to-end architecture vision, de-risk the roadmap, and turn strategy into secure, reliable, cost-efficient systems—while upleveling the engineering organization. - Enterprise & Product Architecture: Define the north-star architecture for a multi-tenant SaaS data platform (ingest → processing → storage → query → API/SDK/UX). Establish reference architectures, decision records, and standards. - Cloud-Native Platform: Drive container orchestration, service mesh, control planes, observability, and resilience across AWS/Azure/GCP. - Data & Streaming: Lead designs for high-volume streaming, low-latency query, and analytical/ML use cases (batch + real-time). - AI/ML & Agentic AI: Partner with product and security to embed responsible LLM/agentic patterns (guardrails, retrieval, evals) into customer-facing and internal developer workflows. - Reliability, Security & Compliance: Champion SRE/SOC2/ISO/GDPR-by-design, error budgets, threat modeling, and secure SDLC. - Developer Experience: Improve CI/CD, test strategy, paved roads, and golden paths; reduce cognitive load and toil across teams. - Executive & Customer Influence: Translate architecture trade-offs for executives and key customers; guide buy-build-integrate decisions. ## Key Responsibilities Set the vision: Author and socialize the product/platform architecture strategy; maintain ADRs and tech radars. - Design at scale: Lead designs for multi-tenant isolation, data models, schemas, indexing/OLAP, and event-driven systems. - Evolve the platform: Standardize service meshes, API gateways, policy-as-code, and multi-cloud deployment patterns. - Operational excellence: Embed SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident learning), capacity planning, and chaos testing. - Security & privacy: Lead threat models, data classification, encryption, secrets, key management, and SBOM/SLSA controls. - AI architecture: Define patterns for RAG/agents, prompt & model governance, telemetry, evaluations, and fallbacks. - Mentor & scale: Coach Staff/Principal engineers and architects; chair architecture reviews; build a healthy review culture. - Executive partnering: Communicate options/trade-offs to C-suite; align decisions with business value and customer impact. - Customer evangelism: Join key enterprise conversations; convert requirements into pragmatic designs and phased delivery. ## Qualifications - 20+ years in product/platform architecture for large-scale, cloud-native SaaS; recent Principal/Distinguished Architect scope leading end-to-end product decisions and migrations across multi-cloud. - Cloud & Kubernetes depth: EKS/AKS/GKE; service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), platform control planes, operators/CRDs. Able to define golden paths/paved roads for teams. - Data platform & streaming expertise: Kafka/Flink/Spark; columnar/OLAP (Druid, ClickHouse), NoSQL (Cassandra), search (Elasticsearch/Opensearch); real-time + batch patterns. - Microservices & integration at enterprise scale: API gateways, event-driven design, SOA/EAI (Apache Camel/Mule/WSO2/JBoss Fuse). - AI/ML & Agentic AI in production: ML pipelines (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow) and LLM/agent frameworks (OpenAI APIs, LLaMA, LangChain/LangGraph; tool-use, memory, evals). - Security, privacy, and compliance by design: threat modeling, data classification, encryption/keys, and EU GDPR awareness through real product work. - Executive communication & customer leadership: converts complex trade-offs into simple choices; partners with CXO/stakeholders globally; architecture evangelism with customers. - C-suite influence & decision facilitation: runs architecture reviews/SteerCos with crisp options, risk/ROI framing, and written decision records; pre-wires global stakeholders to land decisions quickly. - Customer-back product thinking: meets enterprises regularly, translates requirements into phased designs (MVP → scale), and defends non-negotiables (SLOs, security, privacy). - Cross-geo orchestration: proven delivery across US/EU/India time zones; builds async rituals, documentation standards, and handoff mechanisms that raise velocity and quality. - Culture carrier & coaching: uplevels Staff/Principal engineers, codifies paved roads (CI/CD, testing, observability), and scales architectural patterns via ADRs/radars. ## Preferred Qualifications - Multi-cloud platform stewardship: proven ownership of cross-cloud platforms (e.g., control planes, observability, incident management) and data lake stacks, shipped to enterprise customers. - Cost/performance engineering: track record reducing infra cost per tenant and improving p95/p99 latency/MTTR via capacity planning, workload placement, and autoscaling patterns. - Programming fluency: Java/Scala/Python/Go/Rust for credible code-review and reference implementations. - OSS & ecosystem contribution: prior contributions to relevant frameworks (e.g., Hadoop tuning, NoSQL ORM, Camel/Keycloak) a plus. Reltio is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Reltio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. ## About Reltio ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Reltio provides a cloud-native data unification and context intelligence platform that harmonizes fragmented enterprise data to power AI agents and intelligent operations. - **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by SAP SE; last known funding stage: Series E) - **Headquarters**: Redwood Shores, California, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Manish Sood ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Master Data Management (MDM), Data Management & Analytics, Enterprise Software, AI Infrastructure - **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, primarily in Life Sciences, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide the mission-critical data foundation that businesses need to win in the experience economy, fueling AI agents and systems with trusted business understanding. ## Products & Services - **[Reltio Context Intelligence Platform]**: The core cloud-native SaaS platform that harmonizes, unifies, and enriches data and metadata across sources in real-time. It ingests structured and unstructured data into a dynamic semantic model to provide trusted context for any application, user, or AI agent. - **[Reltio Intelligent 360™]**: Delivers comprehensive 360-degree views of core business entities (customers, products, suppliers, etc.) by unifying fragmented data across silos. - **[Reltio Multidomain MDM]**: An AI-powered, agent-enabled master data management solution that automates data governance and quality for multiple domains (e.g., customer, product, location). - **[Reltio AgentFlow™]**: Enables the activation of trusted, unified data into autonomous AI agents and prebuilt agentic workflows. It automates data governance tasks and powers agentic intelligence for productivity and enrichment. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (SAP SE completed acquisition of Reltio in 2026; terms not publicly disclosed). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$90.4M (as of latest available data) and Total Funding of $237M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates, Brighton Park Capital, Sapphire Ventures, .406 Ventures, Crosslink Capital. - **Growth Signals**: Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management Solutions; acquired by SAP SE in 2026, a major validation and strategic growth move; named Leader in multiple analyst reports. ## Competitive Advantages - **Cloud-Native & Real-Time**: Unlike legacy MDM systems, Reltio was built from the ground up as a cloud-native, SaaS platform, enabling real-time data unification and low-latency activation. - **Agentic AI Foundation**: The platform is designed specifically as a "context intelligence" layer for AI agents, pre-integrating data governance and enrichment into agent workflows — a clear competitive moat for the agentic AI era. - **Trusted by the Largest Enterprises**: Deep foothold in highly regulated industries (Life Sciences, Financial Services, Healthcare) where data quality and trust are non-negotiable. - **Post-Acquisition Scale**: Now part of SAP SE, providing immediate access to massive distribution, resources, and a global partner ecosystem. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI Leadership**: Solidifying the platform as the standard "context engine" for enterprise AI agents, focusing on pre-built agents, workflow automation, and integration with leading AI ecosystems. - **Post-Acquisition Integration**: Scaling within the SAP portfolio and leveraging SAP’s global reach to expand into new enterprise segments and geographies. - **Unstructured Data**: Continuing to invest in unifying and enriching unstructured data sources alongside traditional structured data to provide a more complete business understanding. - **Sovereignty & Compliance**: Emphasizing data governance, privacy, and compliance features (including multi-tenant data sovereignty) to meet stringent global regulatory requirements. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: A customer-first, collaborative culture with strong values: "Customer First," "Always Better Than Yesterday," "Better Together," "Simplify & Share," and "Own It." - **Flexibility**: Rated highly for remote and flexible work environment, providing significant autonomy. Unlimited PTO is offered. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Health benefits described as "the best I’ve ever had" by employees. Stock options are granted to all employees. - **Growth & Impact**: Employees report working with "smart people and interesting clients" on a product they are proud of. The timing in the MDM/AI space is considered excellent, providing strong career growth opportunities. The company is fast-growing and has a bright future post-acquisition. - **Employee Sentiment**: 4.0/5.0 employer rating on LinkedIn (230 reviews). Breakdown: Work-Life: 3.9, Compensation: 3.8, Culture: 3.8, Career: 3.7. - **Workforce**: 492 employees globally (US, India, Portugal, UK, UAE, Netherlands, Canada, France, Poland). Technical roles are the largest department (37%). ## Sources 1. [reltio.com](https://www.reltio.com/) 2. [reltio.com/careers](https://www.reltio.com/careers/) 3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reltio-inc) 4. 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