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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