Senior Cloud FinOps Architect — AI-Ready Multi-Cloud

Lumen; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 167,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Bonus structure

Paid time off

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategies across multi-cloud ecosystems and drive economic accountability across engineering and product teams.

You will partner with Finance, Enterprise Architecture, and senior leadership to deliver measurable business value while enabling performance, security, and resilience in a rapidly evolving AI-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, or technology strategy experience.
• 8+ years of public cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• 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.
• Lead FinOps, cloud economics, and cost-optimization programs at scale.
• Drive cloud migration, platform modernization, and application rationalization.
• Establish governance for cloud consumption, tagging, and lifecycle management.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Cost optimization

Executive influence

Education

Advanced FinOps certification

Cloud architecture certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Flexera

CloudHealth

Apptio Cloudability

Kubernetes

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategies across multi-cloud ecosystems and drive economic accountability across engineering and product teams.

You will partner with Finance, Enterprise Architecture, and senior leadership to deliver measurable business value while enabling performance, security, and resilience in a rapidly evolving AI-driven environment.