The Cloud Architect is accountable for the end‑to‑end cloud architecture, design standards, and technical governance across the modernization program—covering infrastructure, application, and data platform transformations. This role defines the target‑state cloud architecture, ensures security and compliance by design, and guides engineering teams through landing zones, networking, identity, platform services, and migration patterns to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient, and reliable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
- Define the target‑state cloud architecture (landing zones, network topology, identity, guardrails, platform services) aligned to business, security, and compliance requirements.
- Create reference architectures and patterns for application refactoring/re‑platforming, data ingestion/processing, and integration services.
- Drive cloud roadmaps, technology evaluations, and build‑vs‑buy recommendations (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), including cost models and TCO.
- Lead setup of foundational cloud services: subscription/tenant structure, management groups, RBAC, policy‑as‑code, Key/Secret management, logging and monitoring.
- Govern migration factories (waves/sprints), selecting migration paths (rehost, replatform, refactor) and validating cutover/runbooks.
- Oversee Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform/Bicep), pipelines, and environment automation for dev/test/stage/prod.
- Embed Zero Trust principles, network segmentation (hub‑and‑spoke), firewall/NSG rules, Private Endpoints, and encryption controls.
- Ensure governance: Policies, tagging, cost controls, backup/DR, RTO/RPO alignment, and evidence for audits/regulatory needs.
- Partner with Security/Compliance teams on PII/PHI handling, data residency, and threat modeling.
- Collaborate with Application and Data Architects to align platform services with app modernization (containers, serverless, PaaS) and data workloads (lakehouse, streaming, analytics).
- Define integration patterns (API gateways, messaging/queues, event streaming) and non‑functional requirements (performance, reliability, observability).
- Support AI/analytics readiness (secure data access, search/indexing services, governance hooks).
- Provide architecture governance through design reviews, ADRs, and architectural runway.
- Mentor engineers; resolve cross‑domain design issues; ensure quality gates and operational readiness (SRE practices, telemetry).
- Communicate clearly with executives and stakeholders: risks, trade‑offs, and decision logs.
- 10+ years in architecture/engineering with hands‑on cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP), including networking, identity, security, and platform services.
- Proven delivery of large‑scale migrations/modernization across applications and data platforms (rehost/replatform/refactor).
- Strong IaC (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation), CI/CD, and automation background; familiarity with Kubernetes/containers, serverless, API gateways, messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka/Event Hubs).
- Deep understanding of governance & cost management, DR/BCP, observability, and performance engineering.
- Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to translate business goals into actionable architectures.
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