Lead Principal Cloud Architect

• Define the target-state cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture across public cloud, on-premises, and relevant edge/distributed scenarios, with clear standards, blueprints, and reference architectures.
• Own and evolve the cloud architecture roadmap, including migration, modernization, landing-zone, governance, and operational readiness considerations aligned to business outcomes.
• Extract and normalize infrastructure knowledge from SOPs, processes, legacy standards, and multiple repositories into a centralized standards and policy knowledge base.
• Lead project intake and architecture requirements definition, including discovery with business stakeholders and InfoSec, and translate requirements into architecture artifacts such as ARDs.
• Review and approve infrastructure architecture and standards submissions from MSPs and other delivery partners to ensure conformance with enterprise standards, security expectations, and operational design requirements.
• Act as part of the Enterprise Architecture review function to validate new technologies and solution designs with infrastructure integration points, hidden dependencies, or architectural risks.
• Establish and enforce governance guardrails covering security, identity, network segmentation, compliance, cost management, and approved design patterns across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead adoption of infrastructure-as-code, automation, and repeatable deployment approaches, including standards for provisioning, lifecycle management, and reusable modules.
• Partner with engineering, operations, security, and product/application teams to remove design roadblocks, improve reliability and observability, and ensure supportable operating models.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, standards, and roadmap trade-offs clearly to technical teams, delivery partners, and executive stakeholders.

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, with 5+ years in senior or lead architecture roles delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, with expertise in GCP, and strong knowledge in Azure, AWS, with hybrid connectivity to on-premises environments.
• Proven ability to define standards, reference architectures, governance guardrails, and architecture review practices for cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong experience in cloud migration and modernization planning, including dependency analysis, target-state design, and operational readiness.
• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure-as-code / datacenter-as-code, automation, and orchestration frameworks.
• Experience designing and governing secure, resilient, and cost-aware cloud architectures, including identity, networking, compliance, and operational controls.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate architecture decisions for both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience working cross-functionally with security, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to discover requirements and reconcile competing constraints.
• Experience reviewing delivery artifacts and guiding external partners, MSPs, or systems integrators.
• Ability to create and maintain architecture documentation, standards, blueprints, and operational guidance suitable for enterprise use., * Experience leading or materially supporting a cloud center of excellence or comparable enterprise architecture governance model.
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost-governance practices.
• Experience with observability, performance, and operational resilience patterns for cloud platforms.
• Experience with platform engineering, managed services operating models, or Day-2 operational design.
• Experience with cloud-native patterns such as microservices, containers, serverless, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Core enterprise infrastructure components such as Identity Providers, DNS, DHCP, and PKI.
• Familiarity with formal cloud certifications such as AWS, Azure, or GCP architect-level certifications.
• Familiarity with ITIL, TOGAF, or comparable governance / service-management frameworks.
• Experience with distributed cloud or edge computing where relevant to the enterprise environment.

Skills Matrix:

• Skill / Competency Category (technical / functional / leadership / soft skill / domain) Priority (Must-Have / Preferred / Optional)
• Cloud architecture strategy and target-state design functional Must-Have
• Cloud governance / guardrails / standards functional Must-Have
• Communication and collaboration soft skill Must-Have
• Cloud security / secure-by-design / compliance alignment technical Must-Have
• Hybrid / multi-cloud architecture technical Must-Have
• Infrastructure as Code / automation technical Must-Have
• Cloud migration / modernization functional Must-Have
• Enterprise integration / dependency management domain Must-Have
• Knowledge capture / standards documentation functional Must-Have
• MSP / vendor governance functional Must-Have
• FinOps / cost governance functional Preferred
• Platform engineering / Day-2 operating model functional Preferred
• Cloud-native patterns (containers / serverless / event-driven) technical Preferred
• Formal cloud certifications domain Preferred
• Edge / distributed cloud domain Optional

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $46.23/hour - $72.23/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.