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Cloud Principal Architect – Innovation Jobs in Calgary, Canada at Kyndryl
Title: Cloud Principal Architect – Innovation
Company: Kyndryl
Location: Calgary, Canada
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Position: Cloud Principal Architect – Application Innovation
Role Overview
We are seeking a Cloud Principal Architect – Application Innovation to lead strategic cloud transformation initiatives for enterprise customers, with a strong focus on application modernization. This senior, customer-facing leadership role requires deep expertise across pre‑sales, solutioning, architecture, and delivery oversight.
The ideal candidate combines strong business and consultative skills with hands‑on technical depth across cloud landing zone design, reusable module development, Dev Ops, cloud migration, and modernization. This individual will engage with executive and technical stakeholders, shape complex transformation programs, define target‑state architectures, support sales pursuits, and provide architectural leadership through delivery.
This role is best suited for a senior practitioner who can bridge strategy, sales, architecture, and execution while driving measurable business outcomes for customers.
Key Responsibilities
Pre‑Sales and Customer Engagement
- Partner with sales, account teams, and customer stakeholders to shape cloud and application modernization opportunities.
- Lead discovery workshops, architecture assessments, and solution discussions with business and technical audiences.
- Translate customer goals, pain points, and business priorities into compelling transformation roadmaps and solution proposals.
- Support RFPs, RFIs, bids, proposals, effort estimation, statements of work, and executive presentations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers, building strong relationships with CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, engineering leaders, and delivery teams.
- Present solution vision, target architectures, value cases, and transformation strategies to senior client stakeholders.
Solution Architecture and Innovation
- Define end‑to‑end architecture for cloud transformation and application modernization engagements.
- Design enterprise landing zones aligned with security, governance, compliance, networking, identity, observability, and operational best practices.
- Architect modernization approaches across a range of patterns including rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, and replace.
- Lead architecture for modern application platforms using containers, microservices, APIs, serverless, event‑driven integration, and cloud‑native services.
- Define reusable infrastructure/application modules, reference architectures, accelerators, and design standards.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, cost‑optimized, and aligned to customer business objectives.
Delivery Oversight and Governance
- Provide architectural leadership throughout program delivery from inception to go‑live.
- Guide delivery teams through architecture decisions, design reviews, risk mitigation, and technical governance.
- Oversee implementation quality across cloud foundations, CI/CD, platform engineering, migration, and modernization work streams.
- Collaborate with delivery managers, engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure successful execution.
- Resolve complex architecture and design issues, balancing speed, quality, cost, and business impact.
- Establish governance models, standards, review forums, and best practices to support consistent delivery outcomes.
Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, and Automation
- Define and drive modern Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops practices across build, test, release, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
- Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, automated testing, and deployment automation.
- Guide engineering teams on CI/CD frameworks, environment strategies, release governance, and platform reliability.
- Promote reusable engineering assets and modular cloud patterns to improve speed, consistency, and quality.
Cloud Migration and Application Modernization
- Lead cloud migration and modernization strategies for enterprise application portfolios.
- Assess application estates and define migration waves, modernization approaches, and target operating models.
- Design solutions for legacy modernization, platform modernization, data integration, API enablement, and cloud‑native transformation.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices to improve agility,…