Consulting Principal, Utilities Consulting Practice

What you'll do

• Design and refine end-to-end cloud architecture blueprints prioritizing cost optimization, resilience, and secure scalability.
• Develop and maintain cloud cost optimization strategies to balance performance needs with budget constraints.
• Analyze cloud usage patterns and pricing models to identify opportunities to lower total ownership costs.
• Establish governance frameworks for cloud resource provisioning and tagging to enable transparent cost tracking.
• Create architectural standards and guardrails for right-sized resource allocation across multiple cloud providers.
• Provide actionable insights through regular cloud cost assessments and dashboards highlighting trends and savings.
• Coordinate with operations teams to tune configurations and capacity plans for consistent user experience.
• Mentor architecture and engineering teams on cost-aware design practices and responsible cloud consumption.

What we're looking for

• Demonstrate extensive experience as a senior cloud architect or chief architect defining enterprise-scale architectures and cost optimization frameworks.
• Possess deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms and services to align technical choices with financial efficiency and business outcomes.
• Apply advanced skills in cloud cost management tooling, usage, and reporting to produce analytics for engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Bring strong knowledge of infrastructure as code automation and configuration management practices for standardized, cost-efficient resource provisioning.
• Show proficiency in performance tuning, capacity planning, and workload right-sizing techniques to minimize over-provisioning.
• Exhibit practical experience in security compliance and governance domains to ensure cost optimization aligns with organizational risk standards.
• Utilize well-developed communication and collaboration skills to work across technical teams, finance groups, and business partners.
• Display familiarity with modern application architectures such as microservices, containers, and serverless patterns and their impact on cloud costs.