Architecture Principal - Platform Infrastructure

Cigna Group•Bloomington, NJ

2d•$151,600 - $252,600

About The Position

The Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure is a senior technical leader who guides how the company builds and operates its cloud and technology systems. The role ensures these systems are secure, well managed, and cost-effective, enabling platform and application teams to do their best work. 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 the Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. The role partners closely with the leaders of those teams and manages the DevOps and Infrastructure team, with responsibility for its results. The position sets the direction, standards, and roadmap for infrastructure and DevOps. It is focused on platform infrastructure and does not design applications or manage delivery for application teams. The role includes leading migration planning and execution, governing AWS accounts, coordinating with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), AWS account teams, and finance/FinOps partners, and aligning work across platform engineering and SRE. The anticipated annual salary range is $151,600–$252,600, depending on relevant factors including experience and geographic location. The role is anticipated to be eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan. The company offers health-related benefits beginning on the first day of employment, including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. Other listed benefits include 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, at least 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For employees working at home occasionally or permanently, an internet connection through a cable broadband or fiber-optic provider with speeds of at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is required.

Requirements

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 independently 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.
Work 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 share migration progress, risks, and dependencies across applications and accounts.
Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE so the three groups work as one team.
Ensure infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.
Align roadmaps so migration, tooling, and standards work happens in the right order without duplicated effort.
Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, set priorities, coach team members, and connect 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.