Principal Cloud Lead
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Job Description
Core Responsibilities
- Define and drive the enterprise-wide cloud strategy across short- and long-term horizons (1- 2- and 3-year plans).
- Align cloud initiatives with business objectives innovation priorities and digital transformation roadmaps.
- Regularly report progress and roadmap updates to executive leadership and governance bodies.
- Own commercial relationships with key cloud service providers.
- Lead procurement negotiations service-level agreements and ongoing performance reviews.
- Manage and optimize the cloud budget ensuring alignment with FinOps principles and cost-efficiency goals.
- Establish and enforce enterprise cloud standards including architectural frameworks and automation patterns.
- Develop and scale technical capabilities across the domains of high availability cloud security infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps.
- Champion cloud automation observability and modern infrastructure practices (e.g. IaC CI/CD pipelines policy-as-code).
- Lead cloud governance and compliance efforts collaborating with InfoSec and Risk teams.
People Management Responsibilities
- No direct people management but expected to have solid stakeholder management skills to work across the SWF with multiple departments.
Requirements
- Proven experience (10 years) in cloud architecture engineering or strategy roles in large-scale environments.
- Strong track record of owning and delivering enterprise cloud strategy and operations.
- Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure including architecture billing governance and security models.
- Experience managing third-party vendors and procurement lifecycle within cloud environments.
- Demonstrated leadership in FinOps cloud cost optimization and performance benchmarking.
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid strategies and technologies.
- Strong understanding of automation tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible) CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native security.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Cloud certifications (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect Expert FinOps Practitioner).
Employment Type
Full Time
Company Industry
Financial Services / Insurance Agencies and Brokerages / Investment Banking
