Lumen Technologies
Principal Architect
Remote, USA · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$152k-$203kDetected 1 day ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformMachine LearningFinancial ModelingForecastingAR/VRLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProcurement
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About the role
- In a culture built on accountability, trust, and bold thinking, the Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI-ready connectivity.
- Partnering closely with Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, Cloud Platform teams, Strategic Sourcing, Product organizations, and Executive Leadership, the Principal Architect brings people and ideas together to solve complex challenges.
- Through collaboration and influence, they champion a shared vision of financial accountability and operational excellence across the cloud landscape.
Responsibilities
- Their impact extends beyond architecture design.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, solution patterns, and governance frameworks.
- Lead architecture reviews for cloud transformation, modernization, and strategic initiatives while embedding financial accountability into design decisions.
- Develop unit economics, chargeback/showback models, cloud costing methodologies, and enterprise FinOps maturity programs.
- Cloud Optimization Lead application rationalization, cloud migration, and platform modernization efforts.
- Implement financial guardrails, policy-as-code, and workload placement strategies that improve cost efficiency.
- Automation & Platform Enablement Partner with engineering teams to automate cost controls, budget management, policy enforcement, optimization recommendations, and reporting.
- Support FinOps platforms, dashboards, operational tooling, and promote Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and FinOps-as-Code practices.
- Develop business cases, ROI analyses, TCO assessments, and cloud investment strategies.
- With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Skills
- The Main Responsibilities • Enterprise Architecture Define and govern multi-cloud architecture standards across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Establish cost-aware patterns for compute, storage, networking, AI/ML, Kubernetes, databases, and SaaS platforms.
- Mentor architects, engineers, and FinOps practitioners while driving enterprise-wide cloud financial accountability.
- Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.
Compensation
- $152k-$203k
Benefits
- Benefits Bonus Structure #LI-Remote Requisition #: 342960 Life at Lumen Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI‑focused organization.
Visa & Work Authorization
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