Lead Architect, Technology Infrastructure (Cloud) - Remote

Solutions driven success.

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO Logistics, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you're looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.

As Lead Architect, Technology Infrastructure (Cloud), you will be primarily responsible for oversight and engineering of external cloud environments. As the cloud expert, you will work with development teams, infrastructure, and other stakeholders to drive and enable the migration of on-premises applications to cloud native design and deployment methodologies. In addition to technical expertise, you must have excellent writing, speaking, and presentation skills and must be willing to lead from a technical position.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and the opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan.

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Design, engineer, implement, consult and be a subject matter expert to build/migrate applications, resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve use of the Cloud Platform.
• Provide hands-on help in supporting the App Dev team with their target platform specific project needs.
• Collect and define technical requirements to enable business process and integrations
• Establish governance and enforce quality standards for cloud software and infrastructure architectures.
• Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and drive high priority customer initiatives.
• Maintain clear documentation and standards for cloud operations in the organization
• Evaluate new technologies and offerings from cloud providers
• Advise development teams with their on-prem infrastructure architecture in preparation for cloud migration
• Assist development teams with cloud transformation of applications
• Lead architecture design/re-design for business-critical systems
• Oversee monitoring/SRE solutions
• Participate in DR design/testing
• Procure, Produce and Curate architect and design documentation
• Create repeatable design patterns so that new projects will have a shorter on-ramp
• Manage cloud billing and reporting
• Provide leadership and mentoring across the organization
• Be ready to assist in the event of a high-severity outage

What you need to Succeed at XPO :

At a minimum, you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• 6 years of IT architecture design and cloud architecture/engineering experience
• Experience with Google, Microsoft, and Oracle cloud
• Experience with Infrastructure Automation (Infrastructure as Code) such as Terraform and Ansible, Kubernetes and container orchestration, and istio service mesh
• Fundamental understanding of DevOps practices
• Experience with Data Science and Data Engineering offerings from major cloud providers including Data Warehousing and ETL/ELT pipelines
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and serverless compute technologies

It'd be great if you also have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience working with multiple IT disciplines and in agile environment
• Certifications in Google, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud

Be part of something big.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification.

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