Cloud Foundation Services Lead Solution Strategist

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver complex features and technology
• Enable development efficiencies
• Provide technical thought leadership
• Apply depth and breadth in technical competencies
• Own end-to-end solution design and delivery

Responsibilities

• Ensures consistent design and engineering approach for complex features
• Develops technology tool stack and evaluates new testing tools/frameworks/practices
• Engages with technical stakeholders for efficient CI/CD pipeline functioning
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance
• Conducts research, design prototyping, and explores new toolsets for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish solution needs and technical requirements
• Translates hybrid-cloud requirements into a strategic roadmap, capability model, and executive narrative
• Defines strategic roadmap for foundational cloud services across various environments
• Clarifies usage of native cloud services vs. enterprise foundational services
• Drives platform identity and access strategy using identity, registration, runtime verification, token exchange, and least-privilege credential issuance
• Defines reusable automation patterns for onboarding, infrastructure-as-code, image pipelines, service mesh, subscriptions, naming, and platform user interfaces
• Prioritizes roadmap dependencies across various technologies
• Embeds security, reliability, and compliance
• Leverages AI to reduce operational toil and improve insights

Requirements

• 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
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills

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