Principal - Cloud (Enterprise Architect)

Cloud - Principal (Enterprise Architect)

What You'll Do

• Advise clients on the overall enterprise architecture landscape on various solution architecture areas including technology, information, data, security, and integration.
• Implement and architect large scale, innovative IT solutions to drive business transformation.
• Evaluate and identify IT-related risks, including compliance, operations, revenue, and growth risks.
• Engage as a trusted advisor across technology topics and the software lifecycle, articulating ROI, risk, and value.
• Develop, as part of a team, technology strategy and planning deliverables to address IT risks and improve effectiveness of the IT organization, specifically focusing on business application integration.
• Produce target state solution architectures, perform architectural assessment and gap analysis and help formulate the overall solution strategy and roadmap.
• Write technical designs and documentation; provide guidance and training to clients.
• Collaborate with clients and Slalom consultants to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Define activities, work products, staffing plans, cost estimations, and schedules required for migration/modernization consultation in proposals and SOWs.
• Contributes to delivery via billable roles as Delivery Solution Lead and/or in SME roles within market's portfolio, with specific utilization target defined by level.

What You'll Bring

• Strong ability to share ideas and communicate with peers and clients.
• Ability to lead solutioning during proposal phases or offering development.
• Fluency in the development and use of solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive business transformation. Familiarity and exposure to Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience in analyzing business and technology requirements to design and build scalable enterprise application architectures. Ability to explain principles of application architecture to clients using value-based frameworks.
• Experience with client or stakeholder negotiations and presentations.
• Bring strong experience in software engineering and DevOps, particularly in production environments using AWS.
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application delivery.
• Apply expertise in configuration management and infrastructure as code, using tools such as:
• Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM
• Contribute to security-focused engineering practices, including:
• Identity and access management
• Firewall configuration
• Fundamental cloud security principles
• Knowledge of application development practices including Agile and SAFe, systems development lifecycle, GitOps, and implementation of software products.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies quickly
• Use acquired knowledge to solve practical business problems for customers
• Demonstrable experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Passion for learning and a proactive approach; able to identify gaps, suggest improvements, and self-manage responsibilities.
• Willingness to be a part of high-performing team in a diverse environment, and ability to thrive in ambiguity.

• 4+ years of experience in application architecture, development, or modernization.

• Nice to Have:

• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Expertise in two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Hands-on experience with migration tooling (e.g., AWS MGN, Cloudamize).
• Hands-on experience delivering migration or modernization projects.
• Application rationalization or 7R evaluation experience.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern transformations (Java/.NET to containerized or serverless architectures).
• AWS certifications such as:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Developer – Associate.