Senior Cloud FinOps Architect – AI-Ready & Multi-Cloud

Lumen; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 170,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategies across a complex multi-cloud environment. You will influence enterprise decisions, set governance standards, and ensure cloud investments deliver measurable business value while balancing performance, security, and scalability.

In this role, you’ll partner with Engineering, Finance, and Executive teams to drive financial accountability, optimize migrations, and champion automation and IaC practices across

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define multi-cloud architecture standards and governance frameworks across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Lead FinOps and cloud economics initiatives, including unit economics and chargeback models.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Executive communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Cost-management tools

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategies across a complex multi-cloud environment. You will influence enterprise decisions, set governance standards, and ensure cloud investments deliver measurable business value while balancing performance, security, and scalability.

In this role, you’ll partner with Engineering, Finance, and Executive teams to drive financial accountability, optimize migrations, and champion automation and IaC practices across