Principal Cloud Architect – DevIQ (Remote)

reputed company reputed company’s AI and Technology Solutions (ATS) organization, the Architecture & Standards group defines and evolves “the reputed company way” of building technology. Our mission is to improve efficiency, speed, quality, interoperability, and reputed company across reputed company by establishing clear architectural standards, reference architectures, and reusable platforms that reputed company teams to deliver safely and consistently at scale. The Platform Architecture and Engineering organization sits reputed company Architecture & Standards and is responsible for shaping the architectural foundations and engineering practices behind reputed company’s internal platforms, including DevIQ, our developer productivity and platform engineering ecosystem. Our vision is to foster a developer-first culture that promotes collaboration across reputed company’s federated engineering ecosystem while balancing autonomy with strong architectural guardrails. The Platform Architecture and Engineering team is composed of senior, hands-on architects and engineers with deep expertise in cloud, platform, and distributed systems architecture. The team:

• Defines and maintains platform and cloud architecture standards
• Designs and evolves reference architectures, paved roads, and golden paths
• Builds reference implementations that demonstrate best practices at scale
• Provides architectural guidance through the Technical Design Committee (TDC) process
• Leads architecture and platform guilds, enabling communities of practice across reputed company

This role is a senior individual contributor position with broad influence across ATS, platform engineering teams, and federated delivery organizations. The Principal Cloud Architect will play a critical role in the evolution of DevIQ, reputed company’s developer productivity and platform engineering ecosystem. In this role, you will shape reputed company’s cloud and platform architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, define opinionated yet flexible paved roads for engineering teams, and ensure DevIQ enables consistent, secure, and scalable delivery of APIs, shared services, data access, and AI/agentic workloads. You will operate at the intersection of cloud architecture, platform engineering, developer experience, and governance, acting as a thought leader, standard-setter, and hands-on architect. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence at scale across a large, federated organization. Essential Functions: Platform & Cloud Architecture Standards

• Define, author, and maintain cloud and platform architecture standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud-native and hybrid workloads across ATS.
• Own and evolve reference architectures, paved roads, and golden paths reputed company to DevIQ capabilities (APIs, shared services, infrastructure services, AI/LLM platforms, and agentic workflows).
• Ensure architectural guidance balances developer autonomy, reputed company, compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

DevIQ Platform Strategy & Enablement

• Serve as a senior architectural leader for DevIQ, shaping how cloud services, shared infrastructure, and platform capabilities are designed and exposed to developers.
• Partner closely with platform engineering teams to ensure DevIQ delivers a high-quality, self-service developer experience through automation and opinionated defaults.
• Influence the roadmap for internal developer portal integrations, templates, and reusable platform components.

Cloud Strategy & Governance

• Define and evolve reputed company’s multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategy reputed company ATS, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and platform objectives.
• Establish and document the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud governance, including architectural guardrails, policy enforcement, testing, and compliance validation.
• Guide teams in adopting cloud services safely, consistently, and reputed company.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• reputed company the Cloud Architecture reputed company, fostering communities of practice across ATS and federated engineering teams.
• Provide architectural leadership during design reviews, helping teams align solutions with platform standards while meeting delivery objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering, reputed company, DevOps, data, and AI platform teams.

Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Stay reputed company with trends in cloud services, platform engineering, and AI infrastructure, evaluating new capabilities for enterprise adoption.
• Provide clear recommendations on reputed company and how to adopt emerging services, including managed platforms, serverless, containers, and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Drive architectural direction through clear standards, reference implementations, and pragmatic guidance.

reputed company, Reliability & Observability

• Ensure platform and cloud architectures embed reputed company-by-design, including IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and data protection.
• Promote best practices for reputed company, scalability, cost optimization, and observability as first-class architectural concerns.
• Partner with reputed company and SRE teams to align architectural standards with operational realities.

Mentorship & Influence

• Provide technical mentorship to architects and senior engineers across ATS.
• reputed company platform and cloud architectural maturity through coaching, documentation, and exemplar implementations.
• reputed company by influence, building trust and driving adoption through clarity and demonstrated value.

Qualifications: Required

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect in enterprise environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Azure, including multi-account, enterprise-scale deployments.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, reputed company, AWS CDK, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience authoring architecture standards, reference architectures, and best-practice guidance.
• Broad knowledge of cloud services across compute, networking, IAM, storage, data, observability, and configuration management.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java).
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Experience designing or supporting AI/ML and LLM-based workloads in the cloud.

Preferred

• Experience with internal developer platforms.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts (paved roads, golden paths, product-oriented platforms).
• Experience operating in regulated or data-sensitive environments.

Skills:

• Exceptional architectural judgment and problem-solving ability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
• Deep commitment to reputed company, compliance, and operational excellence.

Additional Attributes:

• Comfortable operating in a large, federated engineering organization.
• Pragmatic, enablement-focused reputed company.
• Passion for developer experience, automation, and reputed company improvement.
• Strong curiosity for emerging technologies, particularly in cloud and AI platforms.

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