Description & Requirements
The Principal Architect is a strategic leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise-wide architecture for observability, automation, and system integration across cloud and hybrid environments. This role partners with stakeholders to align technology initiatives with business goals, ensuring scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the automation processes for daily activities, build activities, new feature and functionality with public and private cloud
• Interact with other team members and groups within the IT organization
• Help enforce the standards for server builds and services deployed in AWS and the private cloud by the cloud solutions teams
• Perform other duties assigned by leadership
• Architect and lead the enterprise observability strategy, including log aggregation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization across multi-cloud environments.
• Design and govern API integration frameworks to enable seamless interoperability between internal and external platforms.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, data-driven architectural solutions that support long-term growth and innovation.
• Influence and collaborate with executive leadership, product owners, and engineering teams to align technology roadmaps with strategic objectives.
• Lead innovation initiatives, including proof-of-concept development, emerging technology evaluations, and adoption strategies to improve our service offerings.
• Establish best practices for automation, monitoring, and DevOps across the organization, ensuring compliance, security, and operational excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
• 10-12 years of related experience required.
• AWS and/or Azure Certification(s) desired
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in IT architecture, cloud engineering, or enterprise systems design.
• Deep expertise in observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic) and cloud-native monitoring and data solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience architecting solutions in SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS models.
• Proficient in modern programming and scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript frameworks).
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tools (Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps).
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.

EEO Statement
Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.
Pay Transparency
Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate’s education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus’s total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant’s salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances

• Oversee the automation processes for daily activities, build activities, new feature and functionality with public and private cloud
• Interact with other team members and groups within the IT organization
• Help enforce the standards for server builds and services deployed in AWS and the private cloud by the cloud solutions teams
• Perform other duties assigned by leadership
• Architect and lead the enterprise observability strategy, including log aggregation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization across multi-cloud environments.
• Design and govern API integration frameworks to enable seamless interoperability between internal and external platforms.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, data-driven architectural solutions that support long-term growth and innovation.
• Influence and collaborate with executive leadership, product owners, and engineering teams to align technology roadmaps with strategic objectives.
• Lead innovation initiatives, including proof-of-concept development, emerging technology evaluations, and adoption strategies to improve our service offerings.
• Establish best practices for automation, monitoring, and DevOps across the organization, ensuring compliance, security, and operational excellence