Senior Portfolio Architect - Cloud Runtimes

Job Location s: US-NH-Portsmouth | US-Remote | US-MA-Boston | US-IN-Indianapolis | US-TX-Plano | US-OH-Columbus

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Position Type:
Full-Time

Job Grade: 21

Department:  GDS
- Application Environments

Market:
Corporate Center

Minimum Salary: USD $/Yr.

Maximum Salary: USD $/Yr.

Typical Starting Salary: $214,800 - $286,300

Travel: 25%

Recruiter:
Roy Ruhling

Internal Final date to receive applications: 10/16/26

Referral Bonus Eligible?:
No

We deliver our customers peace of mind every day by helping them protect what they value most. Our passion for placing the customer at the center of everything we do is driving a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance.

At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects.

Role summary:

The Senior Portfolio Architect provides strategic architecture leadership for Cloud Runtimes, spanning Container Runtimes and Integration Runtimes. The current portfolio includes enterprise Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Apigee API management, and Confluent Cloud/Kafka event streaming.

The role is the senior technical partner to the Cloud Runtimes Director and connects enterprise strategy to portfolio roadmaps, investment decisions, modernization sequencing, and engineering delivery. It anchors Runtime alignment with the Cloud Forge Platform and, beyond individual solution architecture, ensures that runtime products evolve as a coherent platform supporting application modernization, software delivery, data, and AI use cases.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the Cloud Runtimes target architecture, principles, transition states, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead architecture direction for enterprise Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Apigee, Confluent Cloud/Kafka, and related runtime and integration services.
• Sequence modernization work across platforms while protecting availability, security, customer migration commitments, and operational resilience.
• Translate enterprise architecture, security, AI, and data standards into practical portfolio patterns and engineering requirements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to prioritize the highest-value outcomes, identify technical dependencies, and convert architecture direction into executable work.
• Establish reusable patterns for application onboarding, workload portability, API enablement, event-driven architecture, policy-based access, observability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Connect runtime strategy with Cloud Forge, public cloud, Software Delivery, Data Forge, AI Backbone, Night Shift, and market modernization programs.
• Maintain ongoing alignment between the Cloud Forge Platform and Cloud Runtimes, ensuring shared architecture standards, integration points, and roadmaps evolve together and runtime capabilities are consistently consumable through Cloud Forge.
• Lead architecture decision records, technology lifecycle decisions, risk assessments, and build-versus-buy evaluations for the portfolio.
• Engage application and market architects early to understand migration needs, validate patterns through focused experiments, and drive adoption.
• Coach solution engineers and architects, clarify decision rights, and build architecture capability across the runtime teams.

Required skills and experience:

• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex platform, cloud, container, integration, or middleware portfolios.
• Deep knowledge in one or more runtime domains, with the ability to lead across Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, API management, and event streaming.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, identity and access, secrets, observability, security, resiliency, disaster recovery, and platform operations.
• Experience developing target-state architectures and practical migration roadmaps for critical enterprise platforms.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to customer outcomes, operational risk, cost, capacity, technical debt, and investment priorities.
• Proven ability to influence Product, Engineering, Security, Enterprise Architecture, vendors, and…