Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect

Department: Technology & Infrastructure

Location: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead the strategic design and evolution of our technology landscape. A primary focus of this role is to oversee and drive our cloud modernization initiative, migrating on-premises infrastructure and applications to AWS while ensuring architectural coherence, security, scalability, and alignment with long-term business objectives. This is a highly visible, cross-functional leadership role that bridges technology and business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Migration Strategy (On-Prem to AWS)

• Define and own the end-to-end cloud migration roadmap, including phased lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture plans.
• Conduct thorough assessment of existing on-premises systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify migration candidates and sequencing.
• Establish Landing Zone design on AWS using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• Drive decisions on migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, or retain with documented rationale for each workload.
• Coordinate with vendors and managed service providers to ensure smooth execution of migration programs.

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts including reference architectures, architecture principles, and technology standards.
• Lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB), establishing governance processes for evaluating and approving new technologies and design patterns.
• Define integration patterns and API strategy across enterprise systems including ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data platforms.
• Ensure architecture decisions are documented using frameworks such as TOGAF, AWS Well-Architected Framework.

AWS Platform Design

• Architect multi-account AWS environments with strong network segmentation, identity federation, and compliance controls.
• Design for high availability and disaster recovery across multiple AWS regions and availability zones.
• Define cloud networking strategy including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect / VPN, and hybrid connectivity.
• Establish FinOps practices including cloud cost governance, tagging taxonomies, and budget alerting.
• Evaluate and recommend AWS-native and third-party services to meet evolving business requirements.

Security & Compliance Architecture

• Define the cloud security architecture including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Partner with the security team to ensure adherence to compliance standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 as applicable.
• Lead threat modeling exercises and security design reviews for major architectural changes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Technology Leadership

• Translate complex architectural concepts into clear business language for executive stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native design patterns, architectural best practices, and AWS service selection.
• Act as a key advisor for technology investment decisions and build-vs-buy evaluations.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advising leadership on strategic opportunities.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills

10+ years of experience in technology roles with 5+ years in an architecture capacity.

Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS services spanning compute, networking, storage, security, and databases.

Proven experience leading large-scale on-premises to cloud migration programs.

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation.

Experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and API-first integration patterns.

Knowledge of containerization and orchestration: Docker, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EKS.

Understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and platform engineering.

Experience & Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification required; additional specialty certifications highly valued.

Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.

Track record of delivering architecture in regulated or compliance-driven environments.

Strong communication skills with experience presenting to C-suite and board-level stakeholders.

We are not able to consider candidates who will require sponsorship at any point during employment.

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