Principal Architect, Cloud and Platform Engineering

Overview

Senior individual contributor who provides technical leadership for enterprise cloud architecture and governance within Stryker's Cloud Center of Excellence, across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other approved cloud platforms.

What you'll do

• Shape enterprise cloud architecture by defining and evolving reference architectures, design principles and reusable patterns across landing zones, networking, identity, security, resilience, observability, data protection and application modernization.
• Provide technical direction and architectural governance by leading architecture reviews, guiding teams toward approved cloud services and patterns, and driving clear decisions on trade-offs, risks, exceptions and emerging cloud capabilities.
• Strengthen cloud standards and governance by identifying gaps in existing policies and controls and translating them into clear, actionable standards, ownership models, evidence requirements and exception pathways.
• Turn architecture into scalable engineering capabilities by translating requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria for Terraform modules, policy as code, provisioning workflows, shared services, landing zones and golden paths.
• Enable secure, developer-friendly cloud adoption by partnering with Cloud and Platform Engineering to embed security, identity, networking, tagging, cost and operational controls into reusable platforms and self-service provisioning experiences.
• Drive cloud risk, compliance and cost discipline by partnering with Cybersecurity, Risk and FinOps teams to align cloud standards with enterprise controls, assess exceptions and control gaps, prioritize remediation, and incorporate cost and consumption guardrails into cloud designs.
• Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders by facilitating working sessions across Security, Risk, Network, Operations, Engineering and Platform teams to resolve complex architecture and governance challenges and establish clear decisions and accountability.
• Elevate cloud maturity and technical capability by mentoring architects and engineers, promoting adoption of approved patterns, and using architecture reviews, stakeholder feedback, control coverage, exception trends, standards adoption and platform maturity insights to continuously improve the cloud ecosystem.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 12-15 years of progressive experience in enterprise technology, cloud architecture, infrastructure, network or platform engineering, with significant responsibility for complex cloud designs, architecture decisions and technical standards.
• Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS and multi-cloud architecture, with proven experience designing enterprise cloud foundations, landing zones, workload architectures and reusable architectural patterns.
• Strong cloud networking architecture expertise, including hub-and-spoke and transit designs, VNet/VPC segmentation, routing, DNS, private connectivity, ingress/egress, firewalls, load balancing, hybrid connectivity and integration with enterprise network services.
• Strong hands-on Infrastructure as Code expertise, with Terraform/HCL required and central to the role, complemented by experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash/shell scripting, YAML/JSON, Git, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub/GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Proven expertise in automated guardrails and policy as code, translating architecture, security, networking and compliance requirements into enforceable controls using HashiCorp Sentinel and/or OPA/Rego, Azure Policy, AWS Organizations/SCPs, AWS Config, security/IaC scanning and other cloud-native governance capabilities.
• Strong cloud governance, security and modernization knowledge, spanning identity, resilience, observability, data protection, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, cloud-native PaaS, application modernization, data/AI architectures, control mapping, exception management, compliance evidence and FinOps practices.
• Exceptional technical communication and stakeholder influence skills, with experience developing reference architectures, conducting architecture reviews, assessing risks and trade-offs, producing high-quality technical guidance, and driving alignment across engineering, security, network, risk and business stakeholders in complex, ideally global and regulated environments.

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD and advanced certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF or equivalent.

Details

• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India.
• Travel: 20%.