Principal Cloud Architect – DevIQ (Remote)

Within IQVIAs AI and Technology Solutions (ATS)organization the Architecture & Standardsgroup defines and evolves the IQVIA wayof building technology. Our mission is to improve efficiency speed quality interoperability and security across IQVIA by establishing clear architectural standards reference architectures and reusable platforms that enable teams to deliver safely and consistently at scale.

The Platform Architecture and Engineeringorganization sits within Architecture & Standards and is responsible for shaping the architectural foundations and engineering practices behind IQVIAs internal platforms including DevIQ our developer productivity and platform engineering ecosystem. Our vision is to foster a developer-first culturethat promotes collaboration across IQVIAs federated engineering ecosystem while balancing autonomy with strong architectural guardrails.

The Platform Architecture and Engineeringteam is composed of senior hands-on architects and engineers with deep expertise in cloud platform and distributed systems architecture. The team:

• Defines and maintains platform and cloud architecture standards
• Designs and evolves reference architectures paved roads and golden paths
• Builds reference implementationsthat demonstrate best practices at scale
• Provides architectural guidance through the Technical Design Committee (TDC)process
• Leads architecture and platform guilds enabling communities of practice across IQVIA

This role is a senior individual contributor position with broad influence across ATS platform engineering teams and federated delivery organizations.

The Principal Cloud Architectwill play a critical role in the evolution of DevIQ IQVIAs developer productivity and platform engineering this role you will shape IQVIAs cloud and platform architecture strategyacross multi-cloud and hybrid environments define opinionated yet flexible paved roadsfor engineering teams and ensure DevIQ enables consistent secure and scalable delivery of APIs shared services data access and AI/agentic workloads.

You will operate at the intersection of cloud architecture platform engineering developer experience and governance acting as a thought leader standard-setter and hands-on architect. This role requires deep technical expertise strong architectural judgment and the ability to influence at scale across a large federated organization.

Essential Functions:

Platform & Cloud Architecture Standards

• Define author and maintain cloud and platform architecture standards patterns and best practicesfor cloud-native and hybrid workloads across ATS.
• Own and evolve reference architectures paved roads and golden pathsaligned to DevIQ capabilities (APIs shared services infrastructure services AI/LLM platforms and agentic workflows).
• Ensure architectural guidance balances developer autonomy security compliance reliability and cost efficiency.

DevIQ Platform Strategy & Enablement

• Serve as a senior architectural leader for DevIQ shaping how cloud services shared infrastructure and platform capabilities are designed and exposed to developers.
• Partner closely with platform engineering teams to ensure DevIQ delivers a high-quality self-service developer experiencethrough automation and opinionated defaults.
• Influence the roadmap for internal developer portal integrations templates and reusable platform components.

Cloud Strategy & Governance

• Define and evolve IQVIAs multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategywithin ATS ensuring alignment with business priorities regulatory requirements and platform objectives.
• Establish and document the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud governance including architectural guardrails policy enforcement testing and compliance validation.
• Guide teams in adopting cloud services safely consistently and efficiently.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead the Cloud Architecture Guild fostering communities of practice across ATS and federated engineering teams.
• Provide architectural leadership during design reviews helping teams align solutions with platform standards while meeting delivery objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering security DevOps data and AI platform teams.

Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Stay current with trends in cloud services platform engineering and AI infrastructure evaluating new capabilities for enterprise adoption.
• Provide clear recommendations on when and how to adopt emerging services including managed platforms serverless containers and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Drive architectural direction through clear standards reference implementations and pragmatic guidance.

Security Reliability & Observability

• Ensure platform and cloud architectures embed security-by-design including IAM network segmentation secrets management and data protection.
• Promote best practices for resilience scalability cost optimization and observabilityas first-class architectural concerns.
• Partner with security and SRE teams to align architectural standards with operational realities.

Mentorship & Influence

• Provide technical mentorship to architects and senior engineers across ATS.
• Elevate platform and cloud architectural maturity through coaching documentation and exemplar implementations.
• Lead by influence building trust and driving adoption through clarity and demonstrated value.

Qualifications:

Required

• 10 years of experience in software engineering and architecture including large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect in enterprise environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Azure including multi-account enterprise-scale deployments.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure as code(Terraform Pulumi AWS CDK or similar).
• Demonstrated experience authoring architecture standards reference architectures and best-practice guidance.
• Broad knowledge of cloud services across compute networking IAM storage data observability and configuration management.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python JavaScript/TypeScript Java).
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CDpractices.
• Experience designing or supporting AI/ML and LLM-based workloadsin the cloud.

Preferred

• Experience with internal developer platforms.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts(paved roads golden paths product-oriented platforms).
• Experience operating in regulated or data-sensitive environments.

Skills:

• Exceptional architectural judgment and problem-solvingability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
• Deep commitment to security compliance and operational excellence.

Additional Attributes:

• Comfortable operating in a large federated engineering organization.
• Pragmatic enablement-focused mindset.
• Passion for developer experience automation and continuous improvement.
• Strong curiosity for emerging technologies particularly in cloud and AI platforms.

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