Job Title: Principal Cloud Platform Architect
Duration: Direct Hire
Location: Dallas, TX (100% On-Site)
About the Role:
We are actively seeking a highly skilled Principal Cloud Platform Architect to join our Platform Engineering Team based in Dallas, TX. This role requires a seasoned expert with deep knowledge in cloud architecture, data management, and enterprise-wide technology integration. The successful candidate will design and implement robust cloud solutions that meet both current and future needs of our diverse business units.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive cloud architecture frameworks, integrating data models, dictionaries, and maps across various enterprise projects.
- Design and deploy cloud solutions in alignment with organizational policies, standards, and best practices.
- Lead efforts in enterprise data strategy, governance, stewardship, and metadata management to ensure data accuracy and accessibility.
- Architect and implement Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.
- Oversee large-scale data architectures, ensuring efficient data modeling, database design, and information system implementations.
- Act as a technical leader within multi-disciplined, matrixed teams, promoting innovative solutions and emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency and security.
- Design assured Landing Zones with shared services for tenants, focusing on logging, audit, ingress/egress controls, Protective and Operational Monitoring, along with DevOps automation and CI/CD tooling.
Requirements:
- Minimum of five years' experience in cloud or hybrid environments, with a strong focus on cloud architecture and data management.
- Proven expertise in designing and deploying cloud solutions to major platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.
- Deep understanding of enterprise data strategy, governance practices, and stewardship principles along with knowledge in data standards and metadata management.
- Expertise in PaaS, and SaaS services including compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases.
- Ability to act both as an individual contributor and as a technical leader within large, diverse teams.
- Experience in architecting cloud-based security solutions and familiarity with container-based architectures including Kubernetes.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to a broad audience.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in managing and optimizing container orchestration systems and implementing advanced security measures in cloud architectures.
- Experience in designing and implementing hybrid burst cloud architecture control plane strategies for seamless integration and operational flexibility across private and public clouds.