Cloud Service Architecture Principal

Overview:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally. Come make an impact every day t We're Looking For:

Cloud Service Architecture principal Design, architect, and optimize cloud infrastructure and systems that enable enterprise-scale SaaS operations. This role focuses on creating resilient, cost-effective, and secure infrastructure foundations that support multiple products, with emphasis on technical excellence, standardization, and scalability. Develops, validates, and tests structures and user documentation. Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range targets pertaining to innovation driven business growth, high-quality execution, inclusive and customer first culture.

Must reside in the US, within a drivable distance to Kennesaw, GA with the ability to work a hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) from that office.

Responsibilities:

Establishes architecture governance frameworks and decision-making processes that ensure technical alignment with business objectives and long-term product roadmaps

Provides thought leadership and hands-on support to develop SaaS AI/ML and Analytics solutions, utilizing scalable API design, web/visualization/analytics frameworks, and Cloud architectures

Ensures all non-functional aspects of solutions address in the product releases and deployments, including scalability, availability, security, maintainability, and supportability

Designs complex test cases and work with SDET specialists to ensure quality product releases

Creates and maintains design and architectural artifacts.

Ensures uniform architecture and design standards are maintained

Promotes strong collaboration with cross functional teams including data engineering, UX and Product Management Conducts research or POC on relevant emerging technologies in support of solution development efforts and make recommendations

Strengthens our product engineering capabilities, builds appropriate processes, standardized methodologies, leverage proper tech tools, review and mentor coding activities, lead Dev Ops functions, etc.

Builds and maintains status as a developer of novel and creative solutions to build business and bring positive attention to technologies and services

Helps manage the Product Engineering team, based mainly out of the US and India, comprised of application developers, technical architects, UI/UX specialists, etc.

Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Collaborates with product engineering teams during planning and design phases to understand requirements and propose scalable infrastructure solutions

Breaks down infrastructure silos by designing unified, interoperable systems that enable cross-product consistency and operational scalability

Designs and implements global infrastructure patterns that support follow-the-sun operations and 24/7 enterprise-grade availability requirements

Leads multi-year digital transformation initiatives, including migrations from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native architectures

Defines incident…