Cloud Foundation Services Lead Solution Strategist

About the role

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery. Cloud Foundational Services is intended to remove non-differentiated heavy lifting for cloud service provider verticals by offering common, secure and automated platform capabilities. The Lead Solution Strategist connects this enterprise need to target-state decisions, delivery sequencing and operating-model clarity. The Lead Solution Strategist owns the strategic translation of Cloud Foundational Services requirements into an enterprise-ready roadmap, solution narrative and operating model. The role bridges architecture, engineering, product, controls, operations and cloud provider teams to define how secure hybrid-cloud capabilities should be designed, prioritized and adopted. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Translate hybrid-cloud requirements into a clear strategic roadmap, capability model and executive narrative
• Define the strategic roadmap for foundational cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud and Kubernetes environments
• Convert architecture requirements into consumable themes, epics, adoption patterns and decision-ready options for leadership
• Clarify where native cloud services should be used versus where enterprise foundational services should provide consistency
• Drive platform identity and access strategy using bootstrap identity, registration, runtime verification, token exchange and least-privilege credential issuance
• Define reusable automation patterns for onboarding, infrastructure-as-code, image pipelines, service mesh, subscriptions, naming and platform user interfaces
• Prioritize roadmap dependencies across TFE, APEX, Landlord, service mesh, image management, controls automation, QE and FinOps
• Integrate infrastructure, network, and cloud engineering
• Embed security, reliability, and compliance
• Leverage AI to reduce operational toil and improve insights

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution strategy, cloud architecture, platform product management, infrastructure modernization or enterprise technology leadership
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, workload identity, zero trust, IAM integration, policy deployment, logging/tracing, compliance automation and secure credential flows
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, service mesh, image factory concepts, cloud onboarding, FinOps, monitoring and quality engineering
• Deep infrastructure and networking experience
• Experience with control planes and distributed systems
• Experience with state-machine workflow orchestration
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with VM and container image lifecycle platforms
• CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Event-driven architecture experience
• Exposure to AI-driven DevOps or automation
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments

Skills

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process