Principal Cloud Architect - Digital Platform Engineering

Job Description:

At HPE Networking, the Digital Experience & Automation (DEA) team is reimagining how customers, partners, and employees engage with support and services in a digital-first world. We leverage AI, automation, data-driven insights, and modern platforms to simplify experiences, increase efficiency, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

As a Principal Cloud Developer, you will drive the architecture of customer-facing digital platforms, support ecosystems, and enterprise integrations. You will define scalable cloud-native solutions, modernize legacy applications, and establish architecture patterns that enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and business agility. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong system design capabilities, and the ability to influence architectural direction across multiple engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Translate platform architecture and product requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions
• Design cloud-native solutions using APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, and modern engineering practices.
• Work through existing systems and define practical modernization paths that reduce complexity, improve reliability, and make platforms easier to scale and support.
• Connect enterprise systems,  Salesforce, CRM, ERP, business applications, data platforms, and AI-enabled services through well-designed integration approaches.
• Identify where AI, automation, and newer technologies can improve customer experience, simplify operations, or create measurable business value.
• Create reusable architecture patterns and technical standards that help teams build secure, resilient, observable, and maintainable solutions.
• Provide technical direction on complex initiatives through architecture reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance.
• Partner with product, business, and engineering teams to turn requirements into thoughtful, scalable, and customer-focused solutions.

What You Need to Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Typically 15+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud development, architecture, or similar technical roles.
• Experience designing and delivering customer-facing digital platforms and enterprise-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, cloud services, and business systems.
• Practical experience with AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, or modern integration architectures.
• A strong track record of building distributed, secure, scalable, and reliable systems.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and help align architecture decisions with business priorities.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs and recommendations to engineering, business, and leadership audiences.

Key Skills

• Enterprise and Solution Architecture
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• API-First Design, Microservices, and Event-Driven Architecture
• Application Modernization and Digital Transformation
• Enterprise Systems Integration
• AI Integration and Intelligent Automation
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes, Containers, DevSecOps, and CI/CD
• Exposure to Observability tools like New Relic, Datadog
• Angular, Node.js, Express.js, Java, or similar technologies
• Distributed Systems, Security, Performance, and Reliability Engineering
• Technical Leadership, Architecture Governance, Innovation, and Cross-Functional Collaboration

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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