Enterprise Cloud Architect

Position Description:

The Enterprise Cloud Architect is responsible for leading the design, governance, and evolution of the organization’s multi-cloud ecosystem. This role drives modernization initiatives, ensures cloud security and resilience, oversees adoption of AI/GenAI capabilities, and aligns cloud architecture with enterprise business objectives.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain enterprise-wide cloud strategy and long-term architecture roadmap.
• Design scalable, secure multi-cloud/hybrid architectures (Azure(Primary), AWS, GCP).
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and re-architecture initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and vendors to support business objectives.
• Implement governance, FinOps, compliance automation, and cloud standards.
• Implement Zero-Trust, DR/BCP, and resilience across cloud platforms.
• Standardize landing zones, networking, identity, logging, monitoring, and automation.
• Enable AI/GenAI workload deployment and cloud data ecosystem optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps.
• Oversee cloud risk assessments and third-party vendor evaluations
• Mentor engineers and advise executive leadership on cloud strategy.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 8+ years in cloud or enterprise architecture.
• Expertise in Azure(Primary and AWS/or Google Cloud.
• Strong background in IaC (Terraform, ARM, Ansible, Crossplane).
• Strong understanding of networking, identity, SDN, cloud security.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.

Personal Traits and Characteristics:

• Reliable, dependable, diligent, and Highly organized with good time management skills
• Task-oriented
• Organized, accountable, and proactive.
• Strong analytical problem solver.
• Able to work under deadlines.
• Communicates effectively with technical and business teams.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years in cloud architecture leadership roles.

Reports To: Director of IT

Physical Job Requirements:

• Prolonged periods in a stationary position at a desk and working on a computer.
• Constantly communicates with employees and leaders, both verbally and in writing.

Environment: A work environment is typically an office environment located on-site or remote during regular or extended business hours.

Accommodation: Candidates for the position should be able to perform essential job duties in the described work environment with or without accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.