JOB SUMMARY
The Principal Cloud Platform Engineer serves as the organization's foremost technical authority on cloud platforms, providing strategic direction and thought leadership. This role defines enterprise cloud architecture standards, drives innovation, and ensures alignment between technology capabilities and business objectives. The principal engineer operates at the highest level of technical complexity, solving the most challenging problems and making architecture decisions with organization-wide impact. While not a people manager, this position provides technical leadership across multiple teams, mentors senior engineers, and represents the organization in industry forums. The principal engineer evaluates emerging technologies, establishes proof-of-concepts, and makes recommendations that shape the organization's multi-year cloud strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Defines enterprise cloud architecture standards
- Drives innovation
- Ensures alignment between technology capabilities and business objectives
- Solves the most challenging problems
- Makes architecture decisions with organization-wide impact
- Provides technical leadership across multiple teams
- Mentors senior engineers
- Represents the organization in industry forums
- Evaluates emerging technologies
- Establishes proof-of-concepts
- Makes recommendations that shape the organization's multi-year cloud strategy
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant field or Combination of relevant education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- 10+ years' experience with progressive cloud engineering
- Extensive experience as a senior architect or principal engineer
- Proven track record of enterprise-scale cloud transformations
- Industry recognition through publications, speaking engagements, or open-source contributions
- Unparalleled depth of knowledge with cloud architecture
- Mastery of multiple cloud platforms and hybrid architectures
- Outstanding technical leadership and influence
- Exceptional strategic thinking/vision
- Advanced research and evaluation
- Problem-solving complex technical challenges
- Deep understanding of business and technology alignment with an ability to anticipate future technology trend
- Extensive knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance in healthcare IT
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure
- Some sort of Dev experience - AI/ML Counts
- Terraform
- Devops and DevSecOps
Certifications
- MSFT Cert Azure Design Solut
- MSFT Cert Azure Design DevOPS
- MSFT Cert Azure Security Eng
- MSFT Cert Azure Security Arch
