Cloud Architect

About the role

Requirements

• · 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 FinOps principles within cloud architecture decisions.
• · Collaborate with application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, DevOps, 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
• · FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• · Architecture governance and assurance
• Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods
• · TOGAF
• · ArchiMate
• · AWS Well-Architected Framework
• · Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
• · Google Cloud Architecture Framework
• · Cloud Adoption Frameworks
• · Zero Trust architecture principles
• · DevOps and DevSecOps 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, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• · CI/CD and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• · Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, 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, DevOps, 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

Responsibilities

Skills

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture
• Cloud strategy
• Cloud adoption planning
• Cloud landing zone architecture
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
• Cloud migration
• Cloud modernization
• Cloud-native architecture
• Cloud networking
• Cloud identity and access architecture
• Security and compliance in cloud
• Governance and FinOps