Solution Architect - Cloud Engineering
Federal Express Corporation · Collierville, TN · Today
Hybrid$8k/moFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end cloud architecture for RMIC systems, including pricing, rating, invoicing, billing integrity, and settlement workflows.
- Develop cloud modernization roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture strategy.
- Define cloud patterns, standards, and reference architectures that support high-volume financial and transactional workloads.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native engineering practices.
- Evaluate current-state RMIC platforms, identify modernization opportunities, and design future-state architectures.
- Partner with business stakeholders, ARTs, and development teams to ensure architectural alignment across highly interdependent systems.
- Define and enforce cloud governance, including security controls, observability, monitoring, and operational best practices.
- Mentor solution architects and engineering teams on cloud architecture patterns and platform engineering practices.
- Communicate complex architectural concepts and recommendations to technical and non-technical executive audiences.
- Exposes current state architecture and identifies options for future state architecture.
- Works closely with business and IT stakeholders creating solutions that balance competing interests and concerns.
- Develops plans for and facilitates the migration from current to selected future state by providing technical leadership to multiple initiatives.
- Mentor those in less senior positions.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in designing cloud architectures in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Design end-to-end cloud architectures that are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise strategy.
- Evaluate cloud applications, hardware, software and recommend best-fit solutions.
- Apply modern architectural patterns across cloud and hybrid solutions.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, data privacy, encryption, and compliance.
- Experience architecting systems with high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Human relations.
- Communication.
Preferred Qualifications
- Lead major cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable, cloud-modern architectures in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Familiarity with enterprise tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect.
- Experience working in SAFe or large-scale agile environments.
Additional Desired Skills
- Ability to influence architectural direction across matrixed business and IT organizations.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Experience presenting to senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Comfort navigating high-complexity environments with multiple dependencies.