Principal Solution Architect, Platform Engineering

FIS Global • Jacksonville, FL

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About The Position

The Principal Solution Architect reports to the Head of Architecture for Platform Engineering and designs and delivers enterprise platform capabilities. Platform Engineering provides shared capabilities that product engineering teams use to deliver secure, reliable, performant, high-quality products to clients. Its portfolio includes AI Engineering, API & Event Management, Front End, Site Reliability Engineering, Developer Experience & Quality, and Customer Identity & Access Management.

The role’s primary focus is public cloud enablement: architecting how cloud environments are vended, provisioned, secured, governed, and operated. This includes cloud-native serverless ecosystems, containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code for cloud and on-premise environments. The architect also contributes across platform domains and may lead initiatives beyond cloud, bringing enterprise-level platform thinking and engineering excellence.

The role designs, documents, and drives adoption of modern engineering patterns and platform capabilities, supporting the company’s modernization and transformation. It spans the cloud lifecycle, from landing zones, account structures, vending, connectivity, and inherited IAM and network policies through workload placement and migration, cost management, and operations. The architect develops cloud-native patterns and modernization roadmaps, applies enterprise architecture practices including governance, ecosystem analysis, and vendor evaluation, and provides thought leadership on engineering transformation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of solution architecture and senior software engineering experience, including significant hands-on product delivery in a fast-paced, global software delivery organization operating with ambiguity.
• Expert understanding of software and internet architecture, including modern front-end and back-end stacks, API management, identity and access management, cloud-native and on-premises infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, networking, internet connectivity, and browser and mobile application delivery.
• Deep expertise designing and delivering enterprise-scale public cloud capabilities on one or more major providers (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including landing zones and account architecture, serverless and container platforms, cloud networking and hybrid connectivity, IaC and policy as code, and workload migration and modernization.
• Strong understanding of how inherited IAM, security, and network policies affect engineering teams’ service security, reliability, operability, and troubleshooting, and how to design policies that keep teams safe and productive.
• Demonstrated record of delivering platform capabilities that power consumer-facing software products, especially API- and event-driven systems.
• Deep experience adopting and operating within modern SDLC and engineering practices, including AI-enabled development, DevSecOps, CI/CD, GitOps, and platform-as-a-product.
• Thorough understanding of modern information security and data protection practices, including the cloud shared responsibility model and applying these practices across technology stacks in regulated environments.
• Collaborative, low-ego approach focused on business outcomes, with the ability to motivate others and influence without authority.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to navigate and influence at every organizational level, tailoring messages to different audiences.
• Demonstrates sound judgment and flexibility, considering broader context and strategy when developing solutions.
• Maintains a positive, adaptable approach to shifting priorities, topics, and environments.
• Takes initiative, translates strategy into action, and drives delivery with a hands-on approach.
• Remains calm and structured under pressure, including during major incidents and critical decisions.
• Builds strong relationships and negotiates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, grounding decisions in data.
• Shows intellectual curiosity, a drive for excellence, attention to detail, commitment to best practices, and a bias toward continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry, including operational resilience and third-party risk requirements such as cloud concentration risk and exit planning.
• Experience shaping multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy, including workload placement, portability trade-offs, and data residency.
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure for AI workloads, such as GPU capacity planning, managed AI services, and secure access to models and data.
• Professional-level cloud architecture certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or another technical field.

Responsibilities

• Contribute platform expertise across platform domains and design systems—including APIs, services, events, data, UI, and supporting capabilities—that enable engineering teams to deliver product capabilities rapidly.
• Create and communicate best-practice target-state designs using cloud-native patterns, supported by artifacts such as business cases, process context, context and sequence diagrams, and architecture decision records.
• Lead architecture and roadmap development for public cloud foundations, including landing zones, multi-account structures, automated account vending, hybrid and private network connectivity, identity federation, least-privilege IAM, encryption and key management, and policy-as-code guardrails.
• Define paved paths for building and running cloud workloads, including serverless and event-driven patterns, managed Kubernetes and container platforms, reusable IaC modules, GitOps-based delivery, drift detection, multi-zone and multi-region resilience, and FinOps practices.
• Partner with Platform Engineering leaders to introduce, socialize, and champion modernization of front-end, middle-tier, and back-end technology stacks within an AI-first delivery model.
• Lead evaluations of new and existing vendors for alignment with Platform Engineering strategy, technology approach, and integration patterns.
• Define and drive adoption of integration patterns across internal systems, services, and capabilities so that quality data, events, and services can be consumed regardless of channel.
• Partner with platform owners, product partners, and stakeholders to intake and evaluate platform capabilities and features, influencing design decisions before execution and delivery.
• Validate designs through hands-on proofs of concept and reference implementations, and contribute to architecture reviews and governance.
• Explain the business value of the architectural roadmap, providing fact-based future perspectives, options, and trade-offs aligned with business and engineering strategy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed