Cloud Architect

Sherwin-Williams • Cleveland, OH

1d • $153,842 - $200,728 • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Domain Architect role drives the integration of pioneering technologies into highly complex technology solutions within a specific domain, balancing business goals, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability. The role provides strategic direction, training, and mentoring to stakeholders in IT-aligned business functional areas. It defines and leads architecture and solution development in alignment with business and technology strategies and roadmaps, ensuring functional outcomes and architectural readiness. The architect promotes collaboration across stakeholders and communities of practice to understand business needs and deliver solutions aligned with IT strategy.

The position develops integration architecture and standardized reference architectures for cloud and application deployment, including reusable patterns and components and guidance for their application. It is located at Sherwin-Williams’ Cleveland headquarters and is not hybrid or remote. The role is not eligible for current or future work-authorization sponsorship. A criminal-history review may be conducted because the position involves employee contact and access to confidential, proprietary, or other valuable information.

Requirements

• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the country of employment without current or future employment-visa sponsorship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or at least 15 years of IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• 12 or more years of experience in the specific domain and designing solutions.
• Demonstrated track record designing and architecting complex systems at the functional or enterprise level.
• Expertise in technology integration and designing interfaces between systems.
• Expertise in software development lifecycle methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture.
• In-depth expertise in cloud providers and modern architectures, such as microservices, serverless, and containerization.
• Extensive knowledge of existing and emerging enterprise architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• TOGAF Level 2, CISSP, CEAP, CSA, or CSEA certification.
• Six or more years of experience with Azure, AWS, or Oracle Cloud products.
• Seven or more years of cloud architecture and engineering experience, including five or more years designing enterprise-scale hybrid and/or multicloud architectures across at least two major cloud platforms. Experience includes landing zones, network connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and shared cloud services.
• Five or more years of experience with cloud service enablement, Infrastructure as Code, and automation using Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable tooling; establishing reusable infrastructure patterns, automated provisioning pipelines, policy enforcement, and architectural standards.
• Three or more years applying enterprise cloud financial management or FinOps practices, including cost allocation, chargeback/showback, forecasting, optimization, and consumption governance, using tools such as Azure Cost Management, Apptio Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, or equivalent. Demonstrated responsibility for measurable cloud cost optimization.
• Five or more years designing cloud resilience, backup, and disaster recovery solutions, including multi-region or multi-zone architectures, workload replication, database protection, recovery automation, and testing against availability, performance, regulatory, and business continuity objectives.
• Five or more years in technical leadership, defining cloud strategy, reference architectures, technology standards, architectural patterns, and multiyear roadmaps across organizational boundaries, and mentoring engineers in secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud-platform adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive integration architecture designs aligned with organizational business goals, including speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Apply domain-driven design principles to improve conceptual and logical models and advocate for their organization-wide adoption in accordance with architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
• Create detailed execution plans for solution-design recommendations and ensure consistency and compliance with architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
• Identify industry differentiators and provide insights into how improved end-to-end delivery capabilities can support business strategies and goals.
• Promote collaboration among business stakeholders and ensure clear communication and alignment on architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
• Develop training opportunities that empower technical teams to implement solution designs.
• Communicate technical considerations and impacts to stakeholders, explaining implications in detail.
• Maintain business networks to support continuing alignment between business operations and IT strategy.
• Contribute to and influence IT strategy and roadmaps by proposing innovative solutions that advance business goals.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and trends and drive innovation to help maintain the organization’s competitive advantage.
• Create standardized reference architecture for cloud and application deployment, including standardized patterns, reusable components, and clear implementation instructions.

Benefits

• The company describes a range of benefits covering retirement, health care, well-being, and commuting; eligibility and details are provided through its benefits information site.
• The company describes opportunities to learn, develop new skills, and grow professionally.
• The company describes flexibility intended to support health and well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal