Senior Principal Solution Architect Cloud Engineering Excellence
Senior Principal Solution Architect Cloud Engineering Excellence
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Open to remote work except in South Dakota Vermont and West Virginia.
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $166100.00 in our lowest geographic market to $392700.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidates location qualifications skills and experience.Information about benefits can be found here.
Become a Part of the NIKE Inc. Team
NIKE Inc. is a technology company. From our flagship website and fivestar mobile apps to developing products handling big data and providing innovative engineering and systems support our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to redefine the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world and then give them the support to constantly innovate iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative diverse multidisciplinary and collaborative taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.
Who are we looking for
We are seeking a Senior Principal Architect with a strong engineering background to unify the Geographies and Marketplace Engineering (GaME) teams and drive excellence in cloud strategies operations efficiencies and engineering best practices.
This role will focus on fostering collaboration across Application Engineering SRE Platform Engineering Infrastructure and Product and Program leadership teams. The objective is to define and implement cloud computing strategies while designing planning and managing scalable secure and costeffective cloud infrastructures. By aligning major cloud technology decisions this position will enable exceptional experiences for athletes and support the longterm realization of Nikes tech strategy.
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in team building collaboration and facilitation of architecture in a large multinational Fortune 500 enterprise. Expertise in developing branded experiences across web mobile voice and interactive channels using cloud infrastructure is essential. A deep understanding of global product development manufacturing and distribution processes is critical. Additional strengths include expertise in enterprise architecture technology strategy and leadership roles in architecture or CTO functions within startups or midsized companies.
What will you work on:
Form strengths within the team that focuses on Cloud Architecture & Engg Excellence.
Goal is to establish Strategic Cloud Design and Planning
Develop Strategic Vision: Define the longterm cloud strategy and architecture roadmap aligned with business goals.
Architect Scalable Solutions: Design scalable and highperformance cloud architectures that can handle future growth and evolving business needs.
Lead Cloud Transformation Initiatives: Oversee and guide major cloud transformation projects ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
Advanced Solution Design and Implementation
Design Complex Architectures: Create sophisticated cloud solutions involving multicloud and hybrid cloud environments.
Innovate & Optimize: Leverage cuttingedge technologies best practices to enhance cloud solutions improve performance and optimize costs.
Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Architect solutions with robust HADR strategies to ensure minimal downtime and data protection.
Lead Cloud Teams: Guide and manage a team of cloud engineers and architects providing technical leadership and support.
Mentor and Train: Mentor junior cloud architects and engineers sharing expertise and promoting best practices.
Facilitate Knowledge Sharing: Encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team to build a culture of continuous learning.
Performance Monitoring and Optimization
Establish Monitoring and Reporting: Set up and oversee comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance availability & resource utilization.
Optimize Resource Usage: Analyze performance data and optimize resource allocation to achieve costefficiency and high performance.
Implement Performance Tuning: Finetune cloud systems and applications to improve responsiveness and scalability
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
Engage with Stakeholders: Work closely with business leaders product managers and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into cloud solutions.
Facilitate CrossDepartmental Coordination: Coordinate with different departments to ensure that cloud solutions integrate well with existing systems and processes.
Communicate Technical Concepts: Clearly articulate complex cloud concepts and strategies to nontechnical stakeholders.
Cloud Migration and Integration
Develop and execute migration strategies.
Oversee integration with existing systems and optimize postmigration.
Risk Management and Problem Solving
Identify and mitigate risks; troubleshoot complex issues.
Governance and Best Practices
Establish Governance Frameworks: Develop and enforce cloud governance frameworks policies and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance.
Promote Best Practices: Advocate for and implement cloud best practices and standards across the organization.
Continuous Improvement
Stay Updated on Trends: Keep abreast of the latest cloud technologies industry trends and best practices.
Drive Innovation: Introduce new technologies and approaches to improve cloud infrastructure and operations.
Who will you work with:
All consumerfacing engineering teams: this role will work with Application Engineering SRE Platform Engineering and Enterprise Architecture teams along with engineering management and key development leaders to deliver products to market quickly efficiently and reliably.
Product and Program management across Nike: this role and team play a pivotal role in defining technology direction and solution alternatives to deliver products to market in alignment with Nikes platform strategy while meeting business and market requirements. This role will be responsible for outlining dependencies for integration technical evolution engineering and operation of existing/new solutions.
The Global Architecture team this role is a critical member of the domain architecture function defining endtoend GaME architecture and technology strategy across Nike.
What you bring:
Strategic leader with a preferred 15 years of experience in hands on software engineering in a large enterprise/matrixed environment.
7 practical experience with AWS architecting designing supporting cloud infrastructure and applications with a strong technical background: largescale distributed architecture cloud cloudnative big data verticalbased digital transformation AI/ML etc.
Translating business needs into prioritized technology features and requirements solution analysis value chain definition planning and road mapping. Ability to drive collective decisions influence others and maintain trust and credibility.
Deep understanding & a strong handson experience of Cloud Native architecture that includes design principles microservices containerization serverless computing Kubernetes networking data storage routing caching & DevOps practices.
Handson experience with cloudnative development frameworks and tools such as AWS services like RDS Lambda SNS SQS Dynamo DB ElastiCache Cognito etc
Indepth knowledge of Enterprise cloud security best practices encryption methods identity and access management (IAM).
Design security into all projects and processes for design implementation and operational stages. Ensure endtoend Observability within Applications Networks and Infrastructure.
Handson experience with web mobile & interactive technologies at global scale.
Education And Certifications:
Bachelors Degree in computer science software engineering or related field of study or any combination of equivalent experience education and training.
AWS cloud architecture (AWS Solutions Architecture) Or AWS DevOps Engineer certification is required
Certifications in cloud technologies Azure or GCP is a plus
Retail background is preferred with high professional standards for self & others.
NIKE Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package casual work environment a diverse and inclusive culture and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location or the role every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for inperson interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
