Key Responsibilities
- Governance & Assurance: Lead engagements with solution governance forums (including ARB), ensuring designs meet architectural standards, risk controls, and compliance requirements.
- Estimation & Planning: Provide enterprise-level estimation oversight across infrastructure, licensing, effort, and integration complexity; assure architectural feasibility across multiproject programs.
- Executive & Stakeholder Engagement: Influence senior business and technology leaders by articulating architectural options, risk considerations, and strategic trade-offs.
- Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership: Drive uplift of cloud delivery practices, contribute to reusable patterns and accelerators, and maintain awareness of market and cloud technology advancements.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years experience in cloud or solution architecture roles within large-scale or regulated environments.
- Background in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform architecture
- Deep expertise across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) covering compute, identity, networking, integration, automation, and security controls.
- Strong capability in IaC and cloud automation frameworks (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, CloudFormation).
- Demonstrated experience governing endtoend solution designs and mentoring architects and engineering teams.
Certifications:
- Professional cloud certifications (AWS SA Professional, Azure Architect Expert, GCP PCA).
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
