Nike Senior Principal Solution Architect Cloud & Engineering Excellence 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

166910203

Open to remote work except in South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $166,100.00 in our lowest geographic market to $392,700.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.

Information about benefits can be found .

What will you work on:

• Goal is to establish Strategic Cloud Design and Planning

  • Develop Strategic Vision: Define the long-term cloud strategy and architecture roadmap aligned with business goals.

  • Architect Scalable Solutions: Design scalable and high-performance cloud architectures that can handle future growth and evolving business needs.

  • Lead Cloud Transformation Initiatives: Oversee and guide major cloud transformation projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Advanced Solution Design and Implementation

  • Design Complex Architectures: Create sophisticated cloud solutions involving multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

  • Innovate & Optimize: Leverage cutting-edge technologies, best practices to enhance cloud solutions, improve performance and optimize costs.

  • Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Architect solutions with robust HADR strategies to ensure minimal downtime and data protection.

  • Lead Cloud Teams: Guide and manage a team of cloud engineers and architects, providing technical leadership and support.

  • Mentor and Train: Mentor junior cloud architects and engineers, sharing expertise and promoting best practices.

  • Facilitate Knowledge Sharing: Encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team to build a culture of continuous learning.

• Performance Monitoring and Optimization

  • Establish Monitoring and Reporting: Set up and oversee comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance, availability & resource utilization.

  • Optimize Resource Usage: Analyze performance data and optimize resource allocation to achieve cost-efficiency and high performance.

  • Implement Performance Tuning: Fine-tune cloud systems and applications to improve responsiveness and scalability

• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

  • Engage with Stakeholders: Work closely with business leaders, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into cloud solutions.

  • Facilitate Cross-Departmental Coordination: Coordinate with different departments to ensure that cloud solutions integrate well with existing systems and processes.

  • Communicate Technical Concepts: Clearly articulate complex cloud concepts and strategies to non-technical stakeholders.

• Cloud Migration and Integration

  • Develop and execute migration strategies.

  • Oversee integration with existing systems and optimize post-migration.

• Risk Management and Problem Solving

  • Identify and mitigate risks; troubleshoot complex issues.

• Governance and Best Practices

  • Establish Governance Frameworks: Develop and enforce cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance.

  • Promote Best Practices: Advocate for and implement cloud best practices and standards across the organization.

• Continuous Improvement

  • Stay Updated on Trends: Keep abreast of the latest cloud technologies, industry trends, and best practices.

  • Drive Innovation: Introduce new technologies and approaches to improve cloud infrastructure and operations.

What you bring:

• Strategic leader with a preferred 15+ years of experience in hands on software engineering in a large enterprise/matrixed environment.

• 7+ practical experience with AWS architecting, designing, supporting cloud infrastructure and applications with a strong technical background: large-scale distributed architecture, cloud, cloud-native, big data, vertical-based digital transformation, AI/ML, etc.

• Translating business needs into prioritized technology features and requirements, solution analysis, value chain definition, planning and road mapping. Ability to drive collective decisions, influence others, and maintain trust and credibility.

• Deep understanding & a strong hands-on experience of Cloud Native architecture that includes design principles, microservices, containerization, serverless computing , Kubernetes, networking, data storage, routing, caching & DevOps practices.

• Hands-on experience with cloud-native development frameworks and tools, such as AWS services like RDS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, ElastiCache, Cognito, etc

• In-depth knowledge of Enterprise cloud security best practices, encryption methods, identity, and access management (IAM).

• Design security into all projects and processes for design, implementation, and operational stages. Ensure end-to-end Observability within Applications, Networks and Infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with web, mobile & interactive technologies at global scale.

Education And Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field of study or any combination of equivalent experience, education, and training.

• AWS cloud architecture (AWS Solutions Architecture) Or AWS DevOps Engineer certification is required

• Certifications in cloud technologies Azure, or GCP is a plus

• Retail background is preferred with high professional standards for self & others.