Principal Cloud Architect

TMV Global Inc; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TMV Global Inc. seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to guide architecture for a large, multi-year transformation program.

You will govern a broad portfolio of 40+ applications and establish reference architectures, principles, and standards at the enterprise level. Requirements include deep TOGAF experience, executive communication skills, and the ability to align business transformation with IT strategy, including app rationalization and TCO/CBA-informed sequencing in a regulated

Qualifications

• 12+ years in IT architecture roles with enterprise scope.
• Proven ability to govern architecture across a large, heterogeneous portfolio.
• Strong TOGAF or equivalent framework experience at an organizational level.
• Experience in Insurance or a regulated enterprise with core domains like underwriting and claims.

Responsibilities

• Governs architecture across 40+ applications, including legacy and modern systems.
• Leads governance forums and decision gates with client leadership.
• Defines reference architectures, principles, and architecture standards at an enterprise level.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

Portfolio management

Solution architecture

Education

TOGAF or equivalent

Job description

• 12+ years in IT architecture roles, including 5+ years specifically as an Enterprise Architect on large, multi-year transformation or modernization programs.
• Demonstrated experience governing architecture across a large, heterogeneous application portfolio (40+ applications) spanning legacy and modern technology.
• Strong grounding in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent) and experience defining reference architectures, principles, and standards at an organizational level.
• Experience in the Insurance industry or another complex, regulated enterprise, with working knowledge of core functions such as underwriting, claims, producer/agent management, and compliance.
• Proven ability to align business transformation strategy with IT roadmap decisions, including application rationalization, technical debt prioritization, and TCO/CBA-informed sequencing.
• Experience serving as an architecture counterpart to client leadership, including running or contributing to governance/steering forums and decision gates.
• Familiarity with modern integration, data, and cloud architecture patterns sufficient to govern (not necessarily hand-build) solution- and platform-level designs.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into business risk and investment language.
• Experience in the Insurance industry, particularly within life and Pension is preferred