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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Prin Enterprise Architect (Cloud) - **Company:** CMS Energy Corporation - **Location:** Jackson, MI, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Business Software, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Identity and Access Management, Information Management, Interoperability, Network Architecture, Open Data Protocol, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Systems Development Life Cycle, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Multi-Cloud, Event Driven Architecture, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Data Management, Serverless Computing, Microservices - **Published:** November 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18931178/Prin-Enterprise-Architect-Cloud-Michigan-Jackson ## About the Role * Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories. * Knowledge of business ecosystems, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven architecture, and predictive analytics. * Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. * Comprehensive knowledge of the components and principles of holistic enterprise architecture. * Experience developing and presenting business cases for infrastructure investments. * Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT service management, Agile and Lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and enterprise architecture and ITIL frameworks. * Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas and concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences. * Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes., * Bachelor's degree in Enterprise Architecture, Technology, or a related field, with seven (7) or more years of experience performing enterprise architecture work. + [OR] Associate degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with nine (9) or more years of experience performing enterprise architecture work. + [OR] High school diploma or GED with eleven (11) or more years of experience performing enterprise architecture work. ## Description The Principal Enterprise Architect develops enterprise-level strategic business and technology solutions and collaborates with technical specialists to design and define strategic solutions. This role requires in-depth knowledge of business applications, application development methodologies, database principles and techniques, and hardware and software operating systems. The Principal Enterprise Architect collaborates across the enterprise and at all organizational levels to align long-term technology and application strategies with the organization's long-term business objectives. This role demonstrates a strong understanding of governance expectations and partners with business and technology stakeholders to achieve desired business outcomes. The Principal Enterprise Architect applies a strategic, long-term vision to strengthen the alignment between business and technology while helping shape future business direction. Essential Duties and Responsibilities * Research, develop, document, and analyze enterprise, operational, and system architectures. * Prepare and publish formal architecture documents; develop architecture plans and reports; and present recommendations and proposed actions to stakeholders through materials such as white papers and briefings. * Partner with business leaders to define and enable future-state business capabilities that support the organization's targeted business outcomes and inform strategic investment decisions. * Assess disruptive forces affecting the organization and identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities that support business strategy. Evaluate technology trends within the context of social, economic, political, and other nontechnology trends. Analyze the relationships among the enterprise's people, processes, information, technologies, and assets, as well as their relationship to the external environment. * Respond to disruptive forces by facilitating strategic decision-making and providing business leaders with actionable recommendations regarding initiatives and policies that support targeted business outcomes. * Research, develop, document, and analyze enterprise architectures, including business architecture, enterprise information environments, intelligence processes, and information technology, to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls. * Lead the development of enterprise architecture implementation plans based on business strategies, priorities, and requirements. * Provide consultative guidance to business leaders and organizational stakeholders by delivering actionable recommendations that support investment decisions regarding future business and operating models and the technologies required to enable organizational transformation. * Define and govern cloud architecture strategies, principles, standards, and reference architectures across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring solutions meet requirements for security, resiliency, scalability, interoperability, performance, and cost optimization. * Provide architectural leadership for cloud adoption and application modernization, including workload placement, cloud-native design, containers, serverless computing, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, and the migration of legacy capabilities to modern cloud services. * Partner with security, infrastructure, application, data, and engineering teams to establish cloud governance standards and architecture guardrails, including identity and access management, network architecture, data protection, observability, disaster recovery, FinOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices. * Perform other duties as assigned or as necessary.