Principal Cloud Architect

Summary

Architect Enterprises are experts at systems architecture and IT operations. They use their business acumen to assist with the decisions in a company's IT investment strategy. They have multi-domain expertise and guide leadership to define business strategy and the supporting technology architecture standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluates the impact of emerging technology and business trends.
• Drives innovation by prioritizing opportunities based on significant business impact.
• Delivers impactful roadmaps that defineify strategy and improve integration between infrastructure, applications, data and processes.
• Lead enterprise critical innovation projects that require extensive knowledge of advanced techniques in multiple technical disciplines.
• Creates and maintains high complexity logical and physical data and/or system models.
• Transforms business requirements into technical architecture requirements, and designs architectures which are scalable, robust, and manageable.
• Provides technical guidance or business process expertise, technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Determines the technology system architecture and functional design needed to support and meet company business goals.
• Evaluates existing IT systems for exposure or weaknesses that could compromise performance, security, or efficiency.
• Leads the Technical Review Board and facilitates development of standards, information technology vision, and make recommendations on technology decisions.

You Must Have

· Bachelor's degree in the field of Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering or Physical Science.

· 10 or more years of relevant experience while demonstrating an increasing progression of responsibilities including demonstrated work in enterprise architecture, and team leadership.

· United States Citizenship.

· Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).

· Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

· Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.

We Value

· Master's degree in Information Systems, Business, or related field.

· Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

· Proven expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Microsoft Azure).

· Knowledge of enterprise networking, security, and identity management.

· Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools (e.g. Terraform, Morpheus).

· Experience designing solutions in multi-cloud or hybrid enterprise environments.

· Familiarity with ITIL processes and enterprise service management frameworks.

· Proven ability to determine and influence technology and business strategy.

· Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory frameworks and compliance standards applicable to enterprise IT.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to executive leadership.