Cloud Software and Solutions Architect

• Architect and oversee implementation of shared platform capabilities (landing zones, PaaS services, internal developer platforms, golden paths).

• Review solution designs and pull requests for architectural alignment, technical risk, and adherence to standards.

• Stay current on cloud provider roadmaps and emerging technologies, evaluating their fit and proposing adoption where it is beneficial.

• Collaborate with security teams to embed security-by-design (identity, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, compliance controls) into cloud and platform architectures.

• Contribute to cloud governance, cost management, and optimization practices (tagging standards, right sizing, reserved instances, FinOps).

• Partner with data and integration teams to design data platforms (warehouses/lakes, streaming, ETL/ELT) and integration patterns (APIs, events, messaging) on the cloud.

• Define and govern data architecture standards across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across domains.

• Partner with enterprise and solution architects to establish canonical data models, data contracts, and metadata management frameworks aligned to business capabilities.

• Design data movement, lineage, and governance patterns supporting both analytical and operational workloads.

• Lead or support migration and modernization initiatives from on-prem to cloud (rehost, re-platform, refactor) including assessment, roadmaps, and solution designs.

• Define observability strategy (logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs) and resilience patterns (auto scaling, failover, DR, backup/restore).

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, SREs, and developers; evangelize best practices in cloud native and platform engineering.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8–12+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps, including 3–5+ years in cloud architecture.

• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS or Azure and strong knowledge of core cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM, security).

• Experience designing and building cloud‑native and distributed systems (microservices, containers, serverless).

• Proven ability to architect and operate containerized workloads with appropriate networking, security, and observability.

• Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD automation.

• Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architecture, and cloud integration patterns.

• Knowledge of modern data platforms (Databricks, data lakes/warehouses, streaming, ETL/ELT) and data modeling.

• Strong grasp of cloud security, compliance, and risk management (least privilege, zero trust, encryption, regulatory requirements).

• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Self-driven, collaborative, and experienced in mentoring and promoting engineering best practices.

• PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Experience designing internal developer platforms or platform engineering offerings (self-service environments, golden paths, platform APIs).

• Background in SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident management) and building highly available, resilient systems.

• Certifications from major cloud providers (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect).

• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures and connectivity with on-premise environments.