Principal IT Cloud Architect

Conduent Commercial Solutions, LLC

18h•Remote

About The Position

Conduent is building an architecture function responsible for defining enterprise technology standards across identity, infrastructure, cloud, and security platforms. The IT Cloud Architect defines and governs the architecture that shapes how enterprise cloud platforms are designed and operated across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The role establishes technical standards, reference architectures, and operational guardrails that guide engineering teams and modernization initiatives across the organization.

Requirements

10+ years in enterprise infrastructure or cloud architecture
Deep experience designing Microsoft Azure enterprise platform architectures
Strong experience designing hybrid cloud environments
Experience defining enterprise cloud architecture standards and platform governance models
Experience supporting large-scale enterprise cloud environments with multiple tenants and subscriptions

Nice To Haves

Azure architecture certifications (AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-500)
Experience with enterprise cloud governance frameworks and FinOps practices
Experience supporting tenant consolidation or cloud modernization initiatives
Familiarity with container platforms and Kubernetes architecture

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise cloud architecture frameworks and roadmaps spanning Azure and hybrid environments, translating enterprise requirements into scalable and secure platform architectures.
Publish and maintain enterprise cloud reference architectures and platform design patterns through the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to guide consistent engineering implementation.
Provide cloud architecture governance for enterprise initiatives, reviewing solution designs for enterprise cloud standardization, platform architectures, and operational guardrails.
Define enterprise cloud platform structure and governance models including landing zone architecture, tenant and subscription structures, resource organization models, policy enforcement, workload integration patterns, and architecture for tenant and subscription consolidation.
Define enterprise cloud platform technical standards including Azure security and operational baselines (RBAC, Azure Policy, workload identity, logging), hybrid networking models, container and Kubernetes platforms, and enforcement through infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
Lead enterprise Azure inventory and baseline assessments across tenants and subscriptions and establish cloud governance and FinOps architecture including tagging standards, cost allocation models, lifecycle governance, and consumption visibility.