Senior Digital Architect, Cloud Platform

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities. At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter. This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today. We are looking for a strategic and technical Principal Architect to design the new architecture evolution for Lumen Connect. With a clear goal to improve the quality and availability of our digital platform. This role blends deep technical expertise with strong program management and communication skills, driving scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions on AWS. This Engineer also understands the software development lifecycle (from coding to support) and understands various automation tools for developing CI/CD pipelines. This role will shape how Lumen combines the latest technologies and services to automate all aspects of software deployment and application lifecycle management. Passionate about software automation and quality is always a priority. This role will also collaborate with key stakeholders across the engineering organization product owners, developers, and testers to design, develop, and implement solutions to deliver amazing user experiences and optimize and automate business and technical processes. This role is designated as a fully remote position within the United States. Architecture & AI Design the new architecture evolution for Lumen Connect especially focused on its legacy systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. Work with multiple teams to architect, design and implement a data driven backend architecture to improve response times and reliability. This will be architected to make development faster, more agile and more effective. Architect large projects regarding new cutting-edge network products and provide a cloud native digital experience that matches customer expectations. Help refine and improve the global ecosystem documentation to help AI agents develop larger features faster with the oversight and guidance of the different teams. Support the team in writing technical specifications for the high-level portal architecture. Project & Program Management Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, and resource allocations. Cloud Strategy & Governance Drive cloud adoption and modernization strategies using AWS services (e.g., Ensure compliance with security, cost, and operational governance policies. Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to embed reliability and observability into architectural decisions. Identify opportunities for performance optimization, cost reduction, and technical debt remediation. 12+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience with a master’s degree ~ Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design experience in AWS/Azure/GCP ~ Proven experience in software architecture, cloud engineering, and technical program management of complex projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies ~ Experience of application development using Java Microservices and Spring Boot framework ~ Experience in developing REST APIs using microservice architecture. ~ Experience in using RDBMS like Oracle, MySQL, SQL, and NOSQL. ~ Experience in deploying apps to Kubernetes/Docker ~ Knowledge of web design and mark-up language HTML, CSS ~ Experience in frontend development (Javascript/Typescript, and frameworks such as VueJS) Experience in developing apps that operate using Confluent Kafka Development experience in Python. Experience with Agile/SCRUM Methodologies and development practices Certifications in AWS Architecture or Project Management (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, PMP). This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process. Benefits Bonus Structure LI-Remote If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. We are committed to providing equa