Job Description
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Architecture for Platform Engineering, the Principal Solution Architect plays a crucial role in designing and delivering enterprise platform capabilities. Platform Engineering is chartered to deliver the shared capabilities that product engineering teams use to deliver secure, reliable, performant, high-quality products to clients faster.
Platform Engineering’s portfolio spans AI Engineering, API & Event Management, Front End, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Developer Experience & Quality, and Customer Identity & Access Management.
This role’s primary focus is public cloud enablement, the foundation that every platform and product in the enterprise will build on. You will architect how public cloud environments are vended, provisioned, secured, governed, and operated, covering cloud-native serverless ecosystems and containerized workloads, all delivered through infrastructure as code (IaC) that manages both cloud and on-premise environments.
Like every architect on the team, you will also contribute across all platform domains and may lead initiatives in any of them, so broad, enterprise-level platform thinking and engineering excellence are as essential as cloud depth.
What you will be doing
You will make a significant impact on the company’s modernization and transformation journey by designing, documenting, and driving adoption of modern engineering patterns for next-generation platform capabilities and the ways product teams consume them.
Public cloud adoption is central to that journey. Your focus spans the full cloud lifecycle, from landing zones, account structures and vending, network connectivity, and inherited IAM and network policies, through workload placement and migration, to cost management and ongoing operations.
Together these form the secure baseline that Platform Engineering and product engineering teams consume and build upon. You will draw on significant hands-on software engineering experience in product delivery to turn complex business needs into thoughtful, practical solutions.
You will bring cloud-native patterns to our platforms, build roadmaps that clearly sequence the steps of our modernization journey, and apply enterprise architecture practices such as governance, ecosystem analysis, and vendor evaluation, while providing thought leadership on what is possible as we transform engineering culture at FIS.
Specifically, you will be responsible for:
Contributing platform thinking and subject matter expertise across all platform domains, applying modern engineering and architectural patterns to design systems (APIs, services, events, data, UI, and supporting capabilities) that enable engineering teams to deliver product capabilities rapidly
Creating and communicating best-practice target-state designs that use cloud-native patterns and are easy for engineering teams to consume, supported by clear artifacts such as business case and process context, context and sequence diagrams, and architecture decision records
Leading the architecture and roadmap for public cloud foundations, including landing zones and multi-account structures, automated account vending, hybrid and private network connectivity, identity federation and least-privilege IAM, encryption and key management, and guardrails delivered as policy as code that delivery teams inherit by default
Defining the paved paths product teams use to build and run workloads in the cloud, including serverless and event-driven patterns, managed Kubernetes and container platforms, reusable IaC modules with GitOps-based delivery and drift detection, multi-zone and multi-region resilience, and FinOps practices such as tagging, cost visibility, and optimization
Partnering with leaders across the Platform Engineering organization to introduce, socialize, and champion modernization of front-end, middle-tier, and back-end technology stacks within an AI-first delivery model
Leading evaluations of new and…