Cloud Principal Architect - Innovation

The Role

We are seeking a Cloud Principal Architect – Application Innovation to lead strategic cloud transformation initiatives for enterprise customers, with a strong focus on application modernization. This is a senior, customer‑facing leadership role requiring deep expertise across pre‑sales, solutioning, architecture, and delivery oversight.

• Partner with sales, account teams, and customer stakeholders to shape cloud and application modernization opportunities.
• Lead discovery workshops, architecture assessments, and solution discussions with business and technical audiences.
• Translate customer goals, pain points, and business priorities into compelling transformation roadmaps and solution proposals.
• Support RFPs, RFIs, bids, proposals, effort estimation, statements of work, and executive presentations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers, building strong relationships with CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, engineering leaders, and delivery teams.
• Present solution vision, target architectures, value cases, and transformation strategies to senior client stakeholders.

• Define end‑to‑end architecture for cloud transformation and application modernization engagements.
• Design enterprise landing zones aligned with security, governance, compliance, networking, identity, observability, and operational best practices.
• Architect modernization approaches across a range of patterns including rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, and replace.
• Lead architecture for modern application platforms using containers, microservices, APIs, serverless, event‑driven integration, and cloud‑native services.
• Define reusable infrastructure/application modules , reference architectures, accelerators, and design standards.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, cost‑optimized, and aligned to customer business objectives.

• Provide architectural leadership throughout program delivery from inception to go‑live.
• Guide delivery teams through architecture decisions, design reviews, risk mitigation, and technical governance.
• Oversee implementation quality across cloud foundations, CI/CD, platform engineering, migration, and modernization work streams.
• Collaborate with delivery managers, engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure successful execution.
• Resolve complex architecture and design issues, balancing speed, quality, cost, and business impact.
• Establish governance models, standards, review forums, and best practices to support consistent delivery outcomes.

• Define and drive modern Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops practices across build, test, release, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
• Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code , policy as code, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Guide engineering teams on CI/CD frameworks, environment strategies, release governance, and platform reliability.
• Promote reusable engineering assets and modular cloud patterns to improve speed, consistency, and quality.

• Lead cloud migration and modernization strategies for enterprise application portfolios.
• Assess application estates and define migration waves, modernization approaches, and target operating models.
• Design solutions for legacy modernization, platform modernization, data integration, API enablement, and cloud‑native transformation.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices to improve agility, resilience, scalability, and time‑to‑market.
• Ensure business continuity, security, compliance, and operational readiness throughout migration and transformation initiatives.

• Contribute to the growth of the cloud/application innovation practice through thought leadership, offerings, reusable assets, and internal capability development.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and consulting teams on architecture standards, modernization patterns, and cloud best practices.
• Stay current with market trends, hyperscaler capabilities, modernization frameworks, and emerging…