Senior Cloud Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Cloud Architect (long-term engagement)
• Focus: Core Technology Architecture and Engineering

Description

Design resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud and hybrid platforms to support large-scale modernization initiatives and on-premises to cloud migrations. Define cross-cloud and on-premises architecture, create standards and technical guidelines, and ensure solutions meet security, availability, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud and hybrid architectures
• Define architecture for complex cross-cloud and on-premises environments
• Support and guide large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Develop architecture patterns, standards, and technical guidelines for cloud platforms
• Ensure solutions meet security, availability, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization requirements
• Work with engineering, infrastructure, security, and architecture teams
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle (design through implementation)
• Support adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, DevOps, and GitOps practices

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in cloud architecture (Cloud Architect/Enterprise Cloud Architect) in large-scale enterprise environments
• Proven experience designing hybrid architectures combining on-premises infrastructure and at least two cloud providers
• Expert-level knowledge of the architecture and services of at least one major cloud platform: Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, governance, resilience, disaster recovery, and FinOps
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and/or cloud-native IaC solutions
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, and disaster recovery architectures
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, cloud operations, and SRE principles
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud migration and modernization programs
• Financial sector or other highly regulated enterprise experience is highly advantageous
• English fluency (written and spoken)

Nice to have

• Experience designing advanced cloud-based AI platforms using solutions such as GPT, Claude, or Gemini to support complex business processes and use cases

Benefits

Long-term engagement supporting enterprise modernization and cloud migration programs.