Principal Enterprise Architect-Cloud

Temple Health•Philadelphia, PA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides enterprise-wide architectural leadership across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and technology operations, with primary depth in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The role establishes and evolves cloud architecture standards, governance processes, reference architectures, guardrails, and multiyear roadmaps to enable secure, resilient, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective technology delivery. It translates business, clinical, security, and operational requirements into target-state architectures and repeatable decision frameworks. The architect leads architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and cross-domain design decisions; identifies technical debt and modernization opportunities; and ensures cloud and hybrid solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, operational readiness, and financial accountability. As a principal individual contributor, the role partners with Cloud Platform, Infrastructure, Network, Information Security, Application, Data, Integration, Finance, and IT Service Management teams. It provides technical and procedural direction and mentorship while maintaining separation between architecture governance and the engineering teams responsible for implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and support. The role contributes to three-year planning and roadmaps and requires a holistic view of IT, including networking, server hardware, operating systems, virtualization, data storage, appliances, end-user devices, cloud environments, information security, biomedical equipment, clinical applications, and productivity suites. It leads IT projects, initiatives, and planning. Reporting directly to the CTO, the architect proposes, creates, and reviews designs, statements of work, proposals, project charters, SBARs, purchase orders, procedures, and standards. This is a hybrid position requiring three days on-site: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
At least 10 years of progressive information technology experience across multiple enterprise technology disciplines, including at least 5 years performing architecture, design authority, or equivalent enterprise-level technology decision-making.
At least 5 years of experience designing, governing, or modernizing enterprise cloud and hybrid environments, with demonstrated depth in Microsoft Azure and working knowledge of AWS.
Experience establishing or materially improving cloud governance, architecture review, exception management, reference architectures, landing zones, subscription or account structures, resource organization, naming and tagging standards, and policy guardrails.
Experience applying enterprise architecture methods to applications, data, integration, identity, networking, infrastructure, security, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, and service management.
Experience defining cloud service catalogs, reusable architecture patterns, Infrastructure as Code standards, DevSecOps controls, and onboarding processes that improve delivery speed and consistency.
Experience evaluating workload placement and modernization options, including rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, retire, and software-as-a-service approaches.
Experience with cloud financial management and FinOps practices, including cost allocation, tagging quality, budgeting, forecasting, showback or chargeback, rightsizing, commitment management, and cost optimization.
Experience developing architecture artifacts such as principles, standards, decision records, current-state and target-state diagrams, technology roadmaps, risk assessments, and lifecycle plans.
Experience influencing senior leaders and cross-functional technical teams, resolving complex tradeoffs, and moving decisions from recommendation through approval and adoption.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated environment, including architecture considerations for privacy, security, auditability, availability, and business continuity.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.

Responsibilities

Provide enterprise-wide architectural leadership across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and technology operations, with primary depth in Azure and working knowledge of AWS.
Establish and evolve cloud architecture standards, governance processes, reference architectures, guardrails, and multiyear roadmaps.
Translate business, clinical, security, and operational requirements into target-state architectures and repeatable decision frameworks.
Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and cross-domain design decisions.
Identify technical debt and modernization opportunities and ensure cloud and hybrid solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, operational readiness, and financial accountability.
Partner with Cloud Platform, Infrastructure, Network, Information Security, Application, Data, Integration, Finance, and IT Service Management teams.
Provide technical and procedural direction and mentorship while maintaining separation between architecture governance and engineering implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and support.
Author three-year planning and roadmaps and maintain a holistic view of enterprise IT disciplines.
Lead IT projects, initiatives, and planning.
As a direct report to the CTO, propose, create, and review designs, statements of work, proposals, project charters, SBARs, purchase orders, procedures, and standards.
Define or improve cloud governance, architecture review, exception management, reference architectures, landing zones, subscription or account structures, resource organization, naming and tagging standards, and policy guardrails.
Apply enterprise architecture methods to applications, data, integration, identity, networking, infrastructure, security, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, and service management.
Define cloud service catalogs, reusable architecture patterns, Infrastructure as Code standards, DevSecOps controls, and onboarding processes.
Evaluate workload placement and modernization options, including rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, retire, and software-as-a-service approaches.
Apply cloud financial management and FinOps practices, including cost allocation, tagging quality, budgeting, forecasting, showback or chargeback, rightsizing, commitment management, and cost optimization.
Develop architecture artifacts such as principles, standards, decision records, current-state and target-state diagrams, technology roadmaps, risk assessments, and lifecycle plans.
Influence senior leaders and cross-functional technical teams, resolve complex tradeoffs, and move decisions from recommendation through approval and adoption.