ZU Sr Principal Cloud Architect

We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences.

THE TEAM AND ROLE
Zuora’s Global Cloud Services teams are responsible for Cloud infrastructures, monitoring performance and uptime, managing internal and external shared services, infrastructure services and more – for Zuora’s customer facing SaaS products and platforms. Our technologists sit across USA, Costa Rica, China, India and remotely, using a follow-the-sun model to provide 24x7x365 coverage for critical functions and partner closely with our Engineering, Customer Support, Security, Global Services and Sales teams on a daily basis to keep our customers front and center.

The Cloud Architect is a critical technical leadership role to build the most resilient, scalable, performant, and efficient SaaS billing infrastructure on the planet. This role will own the cloud infrastructure architecture to support the billing, revenue, and payment operations of some of the world’s largest global companies. The Architect will partner closely with our product and platform teams to leverage the latest in cloud-native technologies while in order to exceed our customer expectations. This is an incredible opportunity to push yourself technically while demonstrating your ability to provide leadership across a large cross functional organization.

This role can be remote from anywhere in the US. You’ll be working remotely while occasionally getting together with your team for office visits, events, or offsites. Of course, you’re welcome to come into the office more often if you’re nearby.

OUR TECH STACK: Java, Spring, Rest API, Microservices, Kafka, NodeJS, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, AngularJS, MySQL

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Architectural Leadership: Technicalleadership of cross functional teams of platform, application, and cloud engineers in the design and delivery of integrated end to end solutions. Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team.
Cloud Architecture Design: Lead the design and implementation of resilient, scalable, performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures
Cloud Strategy Roadmap: Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to define the cloud strategy and roadmap, aligning with business goals and objectives.
Security Compliance: Ensure cloud architectures adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
Cloud Optimization: Analyze and optimize existing cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, scale, and cost-efficiency. Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-remediation strategies.
Cloud Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for cloud resource provisioning, management, and monitoring using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or Ansible.

YOUR EXPERIENCE
10+ years of designing and implementing applications, platforms, and systems in one or more cloud environments (AWS preferred)
You are highly skilled at building relationships with engineering teams and leading teams through architectural changes from inception to production implementation
Strong technical skills including experience with modern SaaS based architectures
Track record of designing and building resilient, performant, scalable distributed systems
You have deep experience with the core AWS offerings and wide experience with other AWS services
Drive, with an ability to learn quickly and make independent decisions
Tons of great ideas, the ability to bring them to life, and a love for solving hard problems
Exceptional presentation, verbal and written communication skills
Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field of study preferred
Billing and/or ERP domain experience is desirable