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We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
Job description
This is a remote US position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship now or in the future.
The team
At Hitachi Vantara, our Cloud Architecture team is at the center of the company’s global digital transformation, delivering secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms that support both enterprise IT and product development. Operating across AWS as our primary cloud and GCP as a strategic secondary platform, we design and govern multi-cloud environments that enable innovation while maintaining strong security, networking, and operational standards. As our cloud footprint continues to grow, we are expanding the team with experienced architects who can help shape our cloud strategy, modernize infrastructure, and support emerging technologies including AI and machine learning.
The role
As a Cloud Foundation Architect, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing Hitachi Vantara's multi-cloud foundation across AWS and GCP. This includes ownership of cloud organization structures, landing zones, identity and access management, network architecture, governance frameworks, and shared services that enable engineering teams to operate securely and efficiently at scale. You will define the enterprise cloud operating model, establish standards and guardrails, and ensure cloud environments are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
What you´ll bring
- Expert-level experience designing and administering AWS Organizations, Organizational Units (OUs), Control Tower, Landing Zones, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and enterprise-scale multi-account environments.
- Proven experience designing and operating enterprise cloud foundations supporting dozens to hundreds of cloud accounts/projects across multiple business units.
- Extensive experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), including federated identity, role-based access control, access governance, and cloud security architecture.
- Expert knowledge of cloud network architecture including Transit Gateway, Shared VPCs, hybrid connectivity, network segmentation, routing strategy, DNS architecture, and enterprise-scale multi-cloud networking.
- Expertise in AWS security, governance, identity, and cost management best practices
- Knowledge of serverless and event-driven architectures using services such as API Gateway and Lambda
- Strong preference for candidates with hands-on experience designing and governing GCP Organizations, IAM models, Shared VPCs, networking, and enterprise cloud foundations.
- Experience supporting AI/ML cloud platforms and services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar technologies
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification (current); GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly desirable Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring capabilities within globally distributed teams
As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $120K to $150K. The expected on-target earnings for this position is: $136k to $170k.
The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.
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About us
We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal platform architect jobs.
- Ten or more years of experience in software engineering or platform architecture roles
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, or large-scale APIs
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and lead cross-functional architecture decisions
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
Tips for Your Principal Platform Architect Job Search
Quantify platform scale on your resume
Hiring managers want to see the scope of what you've built. Replace vague claims with concrete figures: the number of services on your platform, throughput, uptime targets you owned, or the size of the engineering teams your architecture supported.
Distinguish architecture from engineering on paper
Many resumes blur the line between building and designing. Lead each bullet with the architectural decision you made and the tradeoffs you evaluated, not just the technology you used. Interviewers at the principal level are screening for judgment, not implementation.
Target postings that name your platform domain
Principal platform architect roles in data infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native architecture attract different candidates. Filter your search by the specific platform type you've built, not just the title, so your experience maps directly to what the team is solving.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal platform architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a system design narrative before interviews
Principal-level interviews almost always include an open-ended system design round. Develop two or three platform design stories from your own work that you can adapt to new constraints on the spot, covering your decision process, failure modes you anticipated, and outcomes.
Negotiate scope and reporting line, not just pay
At the principal level, the architecture mandate matters as much as compensation. Before accepting an offer, clarify which product areas your platform charter covers, whether you have direct access to executive stakeholders, and how architectural decisions get made when teams disagree.
Principal Platform Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal platform architects?
The companies hiring the most principal platform architects right now include Caterpillar, FIS, and JPMorganChase, with the largest share of openings in Texas, California, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is strongest at large technology companies, cloud providers, and enterprises undergoing platform consolidation.
How many principal platform architect jobs are remote?
About 71% of principal platform architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong employer flexibility at the senior individual contributor level. Sub-specializations in developer experience and cloud infrastructure tend to have the highest remote availability, while roles tied to on-premises or regulated infrastructure are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a principal platform architect?
Most principal platform architects reach the role by progressing from software engineer to senior engineer, then taking on cross-team technical leadership as a staff or lead architect. Building hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud-native design, and API strategy is essential. Gaining visibility by owning a platform that other engineering teams depend on, contributing to architectural decision records, and mentoring engineers across teams accelerates the path considerably.
Can you get a principal platform architect job with limited architecture experience?
Moving directly into a principal platform architect role with no prior architecture experience is rare, but candidates who have strong distributed systems depth and have informally driven platform decisions on their current team are competitive. Targeting companies with a staff engineer track, contributing to open-source platform tooling, and presenting an architectural proposal during the interview process can offset a thinner formal title history.
What does the principal platform architect interview process look like?
Most processes include a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview focused on systems design, a full loop with engineering leaders covering architecture depth and cross-functional influence, and a final conversation with a VP or CTO. Expect at least one open-ended platform design exercise where you're asked to design a system from scratch and defend your tradeoffs under changing constraints.
Where can I find and apply to principal platform architect jobs?
You can find and apply to principal platform architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your platform domain and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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