Lead Cloud Architect

Requirements

• Provide high-level architectural guidance and ensure alignment between cloud architecture and business requirements.
• Define and evolve cloud architecture patterns, standards, and reference architectures to support scalability, resiliency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Set the direction of the cloud architecture roadmap; evaluate strategic horizons and determine appropriate levels of investment and ROI for engineering initiatives.
• Foster a culture of architecture that enables iterative delivery, autonomous teams, reuse of shared services, and future scaling—minimizing the cost of change over time.
• Act as a technical lead during application migrations and modernization efforts, identifying architectural, tooling, and platform gaps that could block delivery.
• Translate application requirements into approved cloud platform patterns, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, guardrails, and governance processes.
• Convert one-off migration and integration efforts into repeatable, enterprise-approved patterns, blueprints, and reference implementations.
• Document and socialize solutions to accelerate future migrations, reduce systemic risk, and improve consistency across teams.
• Partner closely with platform, security, tooling, infrastructure, and data teams to resolve complex integration issues across identity, entitlements, secrets management, automation, networking, and data platforms.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, design reviews, and technical decisioning forums to unblock migrations and drive standardization.
• Use systematic debugging techniques to diagnose issues across distributed systems; lead incident response across engineering as needed.
• Identify weaknesses in infrastructure automation, configuration management, and post-build processes; drive improvements that increase reliability and repeatability.
• Provide actionable feedback to platform teams to improve tooling stability, error handling, observability, and operational resilience.
• Design and validate architectures for regional resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover readiness; partner with teams and vendors to test and remediate gaps.
• Support complex data migration and integration patterns, working through security, authentication, and execution context constraints.
• Drive a culture of quality engineering: strong reviews, thoughtful release practices, and delivery that minimizes disruption to production.
• Define and drive organizational testing strategy using quality metrics and accepted frameworks (e.g., testing pyramid) to identify gaps and recommend improvements.
• Ensure expectations are clear across teams and stakeholders; identify dependencies early and help resolve them before they become delivery risks.
• Coach teams on prioritization, trade-offs, and technical debt management; identify and manage technical and business risks aligned to enterprise goals.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law