Cloud Architect

Expleo•Minneapolis, MN

2d•$167,000 - $177,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you an experienced Cloud Architect who can bridge enterprise strategy with hands-on cloud modernization? Trissential is hiring a Cloud Architect to join our client's team and help shape the future of a secure, scalable, and cost-conscious hybrid-cloud environment. This is a highly visible enterprise architecture role where you'll influence cloud strategy, governance, modernization roadmaps, and executive decision-making while helping the organization balance innovation, compliance, operational resilience, and business outcomes. As the organization accelerates Azure adoption while maintaining critical on-premises and co-location environments, you'll provide the architectural leadership needed to establish consistency, governance, security, and long-term cloud sustainability across the enterprise.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or related technical leadership roles
Deep expertise designing and governing Azure and hybrid-cloud environments
Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and operational excellence
Experience developing enterprise cloud standards, architecture patterns, and governance frameworks
Hands-on knowledge of Azure landing zones, cloud migration strategies, and workload modernization
Strong architecture review experience aligned to Azure Well-Architected Framework principles
Experience balancing business priorities, technical requirements, risk mitigation, and cost optimization
Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority
Proven success leading architectural initiatives across multiple teams and technology domains
Strong communication skills with the ability to present to executive leadership audiences
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare industry experience
Experience supporting HIPAA and HITRUST compliance environments
FinOps, cloud financial management, and cloud economics expertise
Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, storage, networking, and hybrid infrastructure modernization
Azure-native platform design experience involving PaaS, containerization, serverless, and event-driven architectures
Experience supporting AI-enabled platforms and responsible AI adoption
TOGAF, Azure Architecture, FinOps, or Cloud Security certifications
Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation programs within highly regulated industries
Microsoft Azure certifications highly preferred
TOGAF certification strongly preferred
FinOps Certified Practitioner, CISSP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or related certifications are highly desirable

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain hybrid-cloud reference architectures spanning Azure, on-premises, and co-location environments
Define enterprise standards for networking, identity, observability, resilience, workload placement, hosting, and connectivity
Guide solution teams toward approved architecture patterns and cloud adoption best practices
Ensure cloud architecture decisions align with business objectives, operational requirements, and long-term technology strategy
Develop and mature cloud governance frameworks that support accountability, consistency, and cost management
Establish tagging strategies, budget alerts, policy controls, reservations, and rightsizing practices
Partner with finance and technology leaders to improve cloud cost transparency and investment decision-making
Conduct total cost of ownership (TCO) evaluations and provide recommendations for optimization
Perform architecture reviews using Azure Well-Architected Framework principles
Identify security, reliability, integration, scalability, operational, and cost-related risks
Develop remediation strategies and prioritized modernization recommendations
Create architecture decision records and maintain governance documentation
Lead the development of cloud migration and modernization roadmaps
Assess current-state infrastructure landscapes and future-state cloud architectures
Help rationalize applications, platforms, and infrastructure workloads for cloud readiness
Guide migration sequencing, dependency identification, and transition planning
Partner with enterprise architecture leadership to establish cloud strategy and standards
Influence cloud-related investment decisions and modernization priorities
Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, digital, platform, and data teams
Present architectural recommendations to executive and governance forums
Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused discussions around cost, risk, compliance, and value