Architecture Principal - Platform Infrastructure

The Cigna Group•Normandy, MO

4d•$151,600 - $252,600

About The Position

The Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure is a senior technical leader responsible for guiding how the company builds and operates its cloud and technology systems. The role focuses on ensuring systems are secure, well managed, and cost-effective, enabling platform and application teams to work effectively. It spans cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and site reliability, with a major focus on leading the company’s migration to AWS and establishing standard patterns for Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The position partners closely with the leaders of those teams and manages the DevOps and Infrastructure team, with accountability for its results. The role sets the direction, standards, and roadmap for infrastructure and DevOps. It does not design applications or manage application-team delivery. The position is expected to make decisions independently within company guidelines and to serve as a technical partner to senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders. The anticipated annual salary range is $151,600–$252,600, depending on relevant factors including experience and geographic location. The role is also anticipated to be eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan. If working from home occasionally or permanently, an internet connection through cable broadband or fiber optic service with at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is required.

Requirements

At least 8 years of related experience.
Experience designing and leading cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS.
Experience leading cloud migrations, including lift-and-shift and modernization.
Strong knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
Understanding of cloud account governance, including tagging, access controls, guardrails, and cost management.
Familiarity with platform engineering and site reliability practices.
Experience managing, coaching, and guiding a technical team.
Ability to influence senior leaders through expertise, teamwork, and credibility.
Ability to work with finance partners on cloud costs and incentive programs.
Strong skills in tracking and reporting progress, risks, and dependencies.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Set and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.
Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.
Ensure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.
Identify problems best solved once at the platform level rather than separately by each team.
Inventory on-premises and existing cloud workloads and determine what should move.
Lead the AWS migration from start to finish, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating migrated workloads.
Identify AWS accounts across engineering and bring them into standard platform patterns.
Set and enforce standards for new and existing AWS accounts, including tagging, access, guardrails, and cost control.
Partner with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), AWS account teams, and finance/FinOps partners on credit and incentive programs tied to migration results.
Track and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies across applications and accounts.
Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE to coordinate work across the groups.
Ensure infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.
Align roadmaps so migration, tools, and standards are sequenced appropriately and effort is not duplicated.
Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, including setting priorities, coaching team members, and connecting their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.
Review designs and guide infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.
Help solve complex infrastructure and cloud problems that cross teams.
Act as a technical partner to senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders.
Make decisions independently within clear company guidelines.