Expert Architect

Private Destinations•Fort Lauderdale, FL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform Automation, Operations, AI, and AWS serves as the organization’s highest-level individual-contributor authority and enterprise-wide technical strategist for cloud platforms, platform automation, operational architecture, artificial intelligence, and AWS. The role defines the long-range architectural vision, target-state strategy, governing principles, and enterprise guardrails that direct technology decisions and investments across multiple business and technology functions. Operating with substantial autonomy and broad enterprise mandate, this position addresses the organization’s most complex, ambiguous, and consequential technology challenges, including matters for which established solutions, precedents, or industry practices may not exist. The role integrates business strategy, operating priorities, technology capabilities, security, resilience, regulatory requirements, financial considerations, and emerging market developments to establish solutions with long-term, enterprise-wide impact. The Principal Enterprise Architect provides authoritative direction for enterprise architecture decisions spanning AWS cloud services, platform engineering, infrastructure and application modernization, automation, DevSecOps, reliability engineering, observability, AI, GenAI, machine learning, and AIOps. The position establishes the architectural frameworks and decision criteria used by architects, engineers, technology leaders, strategic partners, and delivery teams across the organization. As a trusted advisor to executive and senior technology leadership, the role shapes enterprise technology strategy, investment priorities, risk posture, and transformation roadmaps. The position challenges existing models, introduces new architectural approaches, and resolves competing priorities across business units and technology domains to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, cost-effective, and strategically differentiated enterprise capabilities. Success in this role requires exceptional professional mastery, recognized authority across multiple advanced technology disciplines, and a sustained record of defining and leading highly complex enterprise transformations. The role provides technical leadership through influence, establishes expectations for the broader architecture and engineering community, and elevates enterprise capability by mentoring senior architects, distinguished engineers, and technology leaders.

Requirements

Recognized enterprise authority with exceptional mastery across multiple advanced technology disciplines, including AWS cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, operational resilience, and AI-enabled technologies.
Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture methods, technology strategy, operating models, architecture governance, portfolio rationalization, and large-scale modernization.
Demonstrated ability to integrate cloud, infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, data, AI, operations, and financial considerations into cohesive enterprise strategies.
Expert understanding of systemic technology risk, resilience, cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, architectural economics, and business continuity.
Demonstrated ability to develop original frameworks and solutions for complex technology challenges where established precedent is limited or absent.
Demonstrated success shaping enterprise strategy and materially influencing executive-level technology and investment decisions.
Ability to create alignment and commitment among senior stakeholders with competing business, financial, operational, security, and technology priorities.
Proven success establishing architecture standards and governance adopted across multiple business and technology organizations.
Exceptional ability to communicate highly complex technology matters in clear business, financial, operational, and risk terms.
Demonstrated success mentoring principal-level professionals and elevating technical capability across an enterprise.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
15 or more years of progressively responsible experience, including sustained accountability for enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, infrastructure, operations, platform engineering, or technology strategy.
Extensive experience operating as a principal or equivalent enterprise-level architect, with demonstrated authority across multiple complex technology domains.
Demonstrated success defining and leading multi-year, enterprise-scale cloud, platform, automation, resilience, or AI transformations.
Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership on significant technology strategy, investment, risk, and modernization decisions.
Proven experience establishing enterprise architecture strategies, standards, governance frameworks, and reference architectures with broad organizational adoption.
Knowledge of workplace policies and procedures
Familiarity with team collaboration tools and techniques
Strong time management and organizational skills
Ability to maintain reliable and consistent attendance
Capacity to be punctual and meet deadlines
Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and work as part of a team
Demonstrated professionalism in all interactions and tasks.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Evidence of recognized expertise through industry contribution, professional leadership, patents, publications, speaking engagements, standards participation, or equivalent externally recognized technical accomplishments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Own and define the enterprise target-state architecture, multi-year technology strategy, and integrated roadmaps across cloud, platform automation, operations, AI, and AWS.
Serve as the final enterprise architecture authority for the assigned technology domains, resolving the most complex cross-functional architectural issues and exceptions.
Establish enterprise principles, reference architectures, decision frameworks, governance requirements, and non-negotiable architectural guardrails.
Translate enterprise business strategy into long-range technology capabilities, sequencing, dependencies, and investment priorities.
Anticipate disruptive technology, market, security, regulatory, and operating-model developments and determine their implications for the enterprise.
Govern significant architectural decisions whose consequences extend across business units, platforms, products, and multi-year transformation programs.
Define the enterprise AWS strategy and modernization agenda, including target operating models, adoption patterns, platform standards, migration pathways, and optimization priorities.
Establish authoritative cloud architecture standards governing scalability, availability, resilience, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, performance, interoperability, financial efficiency, and lifecycle management.
Direct the architectural integration of cloud, infrastructure, application, security, data, and operational capabilities across the enterprise.
Resolve unprecedented or highly ambiguous cloud architecture challenges with significant implications for enterprise risk, continuity, customer experience, and long-term investment.
Evaluate emerging technologies and external market developments and determine where they should materially alter enterprise strategy, architecture, or investment direction.
Define the enterprise platform engineering and automation strategy spanning Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, orchestration, policy as code, and self-service engineering capabilities.
Establish shared platform patterns and enterprise engineering standards that materially improve speed, reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity.
Lead the architectural transformation of fragmented or manually intensive operating models into standardized, automated, policy-driven enterprise capabilities.
Set the technical direction for reusable enterprise platforms and services adopted by multiple engineering, infrastructure, application, security, and operational organizations.
Establish outcome measures and governance mechanisms to ensure platform investments deliver sustained enterprise value.
Define the enterprise architecture for operational resilience, service reliability, observability, incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity, and technology risk.
Establish enterprise reliability principles, service expectations, and architectural controls for business-critical platforms and services.
Determine the architectural response to systemic risk, recurring service degradation, material control gaps, and cross-platform dependencies.
Direct strategic remediation approaches for issues that could materially affect business continuity, customer experience, regulatory compliance, financial performance, or enterprise reputation.
Ensure operational architecture supports both immediate service obligations and long-term enterprise resilience.
Define the enterprise architecture strategy, governance framework, and foundational platforms for AI, GenAI, machine learning, MLOps, and AIOps.
Establish enterprise standards for secure, responsible, scalable, and economically sustainable adoption of AI-enabled capabilities.
Identify and shape enterprise use cases capable of materially transforming technology operations, engineering productivity, decision-making, and business performance.
Resolve novel architectural, security, integration, data, governance, and operational challenges associated with emerging AI technologies.
Advise executive leadership on the enterprise implications, opportunities, risks, and investment priorities associated with rapidly evolving technologies.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executive and senior leadership on enterprise technology strategy, investment alternatives, architectural risk, and transformation priorities.
Present complex technology issues, strategic alternatives, material risks, and recommendations in business and financial terms.
Shape and challenge enterprise investment decisions involving cloud, automation, infrastructure, operations, resilience, security, and AI.
Lead enterprise architecture councils, strategic design reviews, and cross-functional decision forums for the assigned domains.
Mentor senior architects, principal engineers, engineering leaders, and other advanced technical professionals.