Cloud architect

The Cloud Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures. The role supports cloud strategy, cloud adoption, landing zones, migration, modernization, governance, security, platform services, and integration with existing enterprise environments. The Cloud Architect ensures cloud solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles, business priorities, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational standards.

Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture in alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology direction.

Define cloud strategy, cloud adoption approaches, and target-state cloud architecture.

Design secure and scalable cloud landing zones for enterprise workloads.

Define architecture for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

Develop cloud reference architectures, architecture principles, patterns, guardrails, and technical standards.

Assess application and infrastructure workloads for cloud suitability, migration approach, and modernization opportunities.

Define cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, and retain approaches where applicable.

Design cloud networking, connectivity, identity, access management, security, logging, monitoring, and operational architecture.

Define architecture for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless platforms, managed services, and platform services.

Support application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives.

Define requirements for resilience, availability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance in cloud environments.

Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements into cloud architecture designs.

Support cloud governance, subscription/account structures, resource organization, policy enforcement, and tagging standards.

Promote cost optimization and Fin Ops principles within cloud architecture decisions.

Collaborate with application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, Dev Ops, and solution architects.

Conduct architecture reviews and assess cloud solutions for compliance with enterprise standards.

Support cloud platform selection, technology evaluation, vendor assessment, and proof-of-concept activities.

Identify cloud architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation actions.

Required Experience

Minimum 8-10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or related technology disciplines.

At least 4-5 years of hands‑on experience in Cloud Architecture or a comparable senior cloud design role.

Demonstrated experience designing enterprise‑scale cloud and hybrid‑cloud environments.

Experience with cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity architecture.

Experience supporting large‑scale cloud transformation or digital transformation programs.

Strong experience working with technology teams, cybersecurity teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Core Competencies

Enterprise Cloud Architecture

Cloud strategy and adoption planning

Cloud landing zone architecture

Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture

Cloud migration and modernization

Cloud-native architecture

Cloud networking and connectivity

Cloud identity and access architecture

Cloud security and compliance

Container and Kubernetes architecture

Resilience, backup, and disaster recovery

Cloud governance and policy management

Fin Ops and cloud cost optimization

Architecture governance and assurance

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

TOGAF

Archi Mate

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Google Cloud Architecture Framework

Cloud Adoption Frameworks

Zero Trust architecture principles

Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops practices

Infrastructure-as-Code principles

Cloud security and governance best practices

Preferred Tools & Technology Exposure

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or equivalent cloud platforms.

Cloud networking, identity, security, monitoring, logging, backup, and governance services.

Container and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation, or equivalent.

CI/CD and Dev Ops platforms such as Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins, or equivalent.

Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/i Server, ARIS, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

Professional-level cloud architecture certification from Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or equivalent is highly desirable.

TOGAF certification is desirable.

Relevant cloud security, Kubernetes, Dev Ops, or infrastructure certifications are advantageous.

Personal Attributes

Strong analytical and systems‑thinking capability.

Ability to translate business and technology requirements into pragmatic cloud architecture decisions.

Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to work across enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, application, data, and Dev Ops teams.

Strong focus on architecture quality, security, scalability, resilience, and cost effectiveness.

Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs and multiple stakeholders.

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