Remote Senior Cloud FinOps Architect – AI-Ready Infra

Lumen Technologies; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Job summary

Lumen Technologies seeks a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to shape AI-ready connectivity across a multi-cloud landscape. You will lead cost-aware cloud strategies and governance, ensuring every cloud investment delivers measurable business outcomes.

Work closely with Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, and Product teams to embed financial accountability, unit economics, and migration blueprints while maintaining security, performance, and resiliency.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, or technology strategy experience.
• 8+ years of public cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• 5+ years of FinOps, cloud economics, cloud governance, or cost optimization experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern multi-cloud architecture standards across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, solution patterns, and governance frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews for cloud transformation, modernization, and strategic initiatives with financial accountability.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Executive stakeholder influence

Cloud economics

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Flexera

CloudHealth

Apptio Cloudability

Job description

Lumen Technologies seeks a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to shape AI-ready connectivity across a multi-cloud landscape. You will lead cost-aware cloud strategies and governance, ensuring every cloud investment delivers measurable business outcomes.

Work closely with Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, and Product teams to embed financial accountability, unit economics, and migration blueprints while maintaining security, performance, and resiliency.