Global Principal Architect, Infrastructure & Virtualization

Holland America Line Inc; Fort Lauderdale, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Princess Cruises is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Virtualized Solutions to lead global infrastructure architecture strategy across shoreside and fleet operations. This role holds enterprise authority and shapes investment direction for platforms enabling guest services and operations.

You will drive transformation initiatives across data centers, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and automation, partnering with executive leadership and vendors to advance resilience and

Qualifications

• Experience leading global infrastructure strategy and governance in large organizations.
• Proven ability to translate business objectives into scalable infrastructure capabilities.
• Strong communication and executive collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the global infrastructure architecture strategy across virtualized compute, storage, networking, private and public cloud, workload mobility, disaster recovery, automation, and platform engineering.
• Establish the long-term architecture vision, enterprise principles, reference models, technology standards, decision frameworks, and investment roadmaps supporting global shoreside and fleet operations.
• Exercise final enterprise architectural authority for the organization’s most complex, highest-risk, and most strategically significant infrastructure solutions and transformation initiatives.
• Lead enterprise architecture review boards, resolve architectural conflicts across functions and platforms, and approve exceptions to enterprise standards based on business value, strategic risk, and long-term architectural integrity.
• Establish architecture health metrics and executive-level reporting that identify enterprise risk, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and strategic investment requirements.
• Participate directly in the formulation of enterprise business and technology strategy, translating long-range business objectives into global infrastructure capabilities, architecture roadmaps, and investment priorities.
• Advise executive leadership on how emerging technologies and infrastructure capabilities can enable business growth, fleet expansion, guest experience innovation, operational resilience, and enterprise risk reduction.
• Identify and sponsor opportunities where infrastructure innovation can create new business capabilities or materially improve the organization’s global operating model.
• Shape and materially influence enterprise infrastructure investment strategy, including major capital expenditures, operating expenditures, sourcing decisions, and long-range financial plans.
• Evaluate the business, financial, operational, cybersecurity, regulatory, and technology implications of major infrastructure investments and present executive-level recommendations.
• Serve as a globally recognized authority and external thought leader in enterprise virtualization, hybrid infrastructure, resilient computing, cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and related technologies.
• Originate innovative architectural approaches, reference models, and technology strategies that materially advance enterprise capabilities and address challenges for which accepted industry practices or existing solutions are insufficient.
• Develop solutions from first principles for the organization’s most complex and unprecedented infrastructure and business challenges.
• Represent the organization in strategic vendor councils, industry bodies, professional forums, and executive technology communities.
• Influence industry practices and the strategic roadmaps of major technology providers based on the organization’s complex global business, fleet, and operating requirements.
• Lead the organization’s largest, most strategically significant, and technically complex multidisciplinary infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Direct programs spanning global shoreside and fleet operations, data centers, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, application ecosystems, network services, engineering, and business operations.
• Establish architecture direction, decision rights, risk parameters, success measures, and technical priorities for global infrastructure transformation programs.
• Maintain enterprise accountability for architectural outcomes that materially affect global business continuity, operational resilience, cybersecurity posture, guest-facing services, technology risk, and long-term investment.
• Provide enterprise-wide technical leadership, establish direction for senior architects and engineers, and align executive stakeholders, technology leaders, vendors, and external partners around a unified architecture strategy.
• Anticipate emerging business and technology requirements and initiate transformation strategies before existing platforms or practices constrain organizational performance, innovation, or growth.
• Define and govern the global architecture for enterprise virtualization, compute, server, storage, converged and hyper-converged platforms, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and globally distributed infrastructure environments.
• Establish enterprise standards for workload placement, cloud adoption, connectivity, portability, platform lifecycle management, performance, capacity, high availability, disaster recovery, and workload mobility across shoreside and fleet environments.
• Determine strategic platform direction based on business criticality, performance, scalability, reliability, cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, resilience, lifecycle considerations, and total cost.
• Define the architectural control framework required to meet Zero Trust, identity, network segmentation, secure virtualization, platform-hardening, audit, data-protection, and business-continuity obligations.
• Exercise architectural authority over infrastructure-related security and resilience decisions with material enterprise impact and ensure the continuity and recovery of mission-critical guest-facing, operational, and corporate services.
• Anticipate emerging cyber, regulatory, operational, and technology risks and determine the required enterprise architecture response.
• Establish the enterprise automation, infrastructure-as-code, self-service, configuration-management, orchestration, and platform-engineering strategy.
• Define architectural standards for Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitOps, policy-driven automation, and related technologies.
• Originate reusable enterprise platforms and architecture patterns that reduce operational complexity, improve reliability, strengthen security, accelerate delivery, and support global shoreside and fleet environments.
• Direct the technical evaluation of strategic vendors, platforms, partnerships, and sourcing decisions, balancing business value, architectural integrity, operational resilience, financial impact, and long-term technology risk.
• Influence vendor product strategies and technology roadmaps and establish the technical requirements governing strategic enterprise technology partnerships.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, mentor senior technical professionals, and develop enterprise architecture capability across multiple infrastructure disciplines.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Princess Cruises is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Virtualized Solutions to lead global infrastructure architecture strategy across shoreside and fleet operations. This role holds enterprise authority and shapes investment direction for platforms enabling guest services and operations.

You will drive transformation initiatives across data centers, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and automation, partnering with executive leadership and vendors to advance resilience and