Business Technology - Cloud Architect

WoodmenLIfe • Omaha, NE

3d • Remote

About The Position

WoodmenLife is seeking a Cloud Architect to lead the evolution of its enterprise Azure platform and shape the technology foundation for its cloud-first and AI-enabled future. This strategic role combines enterprise architecture, cloud platform strategy, and organizational leadership to accelerate modernization across the enterprise. The Cloud Architect defines cloud strategy, establishes enterprise standards, guides modernization, and ensures the platform enables secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions.

The role serves as Product Owner for the Nimbus Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), driving cloud adoption, platform maturity, governance, and reusable capabilities. It influences enterprise-wide technology decisions and partners with senior technology leaders on cloud adoption, AI enablement, data modernization, enterprise integration, and legacy platform transformation. The position is part of the Enterprise Architecture organization and works closely with application, infrastructure, security, data and AI, and product teams.

The Cloud Architect defines and evolves WoodmenLife’s enterprise cloud platform architecture in alignment with enterprise technology strategy. The role establishes cloud standards, governance models, and reference architectures; guides adoption and modernization initiatives; prioritizes platform capabilities and investments; and drives continuous improvement of the Azure environment. It operates at a platform and strategy level rather than owning applications.

The position is remote and reports to the Director, Enterprise & Cloud Architecture. Applicants must already be authorized to work full-time in the United States; WoodmenLife will not sponsor work visas. Applicants must provide a resume containing their full name, current residential address, email address, and phone number. Candidates are subject to background, credit, fingerprint, drug-screen, and reference checks as applicable. WoodmenLife describes its culture as collaborative and supportive of work-life balance, including Friday afternoons off year-round. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable application accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12 or more years of progressive IT experience.
• 7 or more years of cloud or infrastructure architecture experience.
• Strong experience designing enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure.
• Proven ability to define architecture standards, governance models, and design patterns.
• Experience leading cloud platform or Cloud Center of Excellence initiatives.
• Experience serving as a Product Owner or managing platform backlogs.
• Experience with enterprise modernization and cloud adoption.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills and executive presence.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; work visa sponsorship is not available.
• Resume must include full name, current residential address, email address, and phone number.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services.
• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Azure certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise cloud architecture aligned with business and technology strategy.
• Develop cloud standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Ensure cloud platforms meet scalability, resiliency, security, and efficiency requirements.
• Guide the evolution of reusable platform capabilities and services, and maintain architecture artifacts in enterprise repositories.
• Support development and execution of enterprise cloud strategy; identify opportunities to improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Guide enterprise cloud adoption and workload migration initiatives; evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and advanced cloud services; and advise teams on Azure capabilities.
• Serve as Product Owner for the Nimbus Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), defining and prioritizing its platform backlog and roadmap.
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver platform improvements and drive adoption of reusable services, automation, and consistent cloud practices.
• Ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise architecture standards; lead architecture reviews; provide strategic guidance; define and enforce governance practices and guardrails; and identify and mitigate architectural risks.
• Partner with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Data, Infrastructure, and Business Process Architects, and influence stakeholders across technology and business teams.
• Promote responsible cloud consumption and cost transparency; identify optimization opportunities; guide cost-effective architecture patterns; and support FinOps maturity and accountability.
• Lead the Azure Community of Practice, mentor architects and engineering teams, promote best practices and knowledge sharing, and support continuous learning and cloud capability development.
• Guide or contribute to initiatives involving Nimbus CoE expansion, Azure landing zones and platform modernization, cloud adoption and migration, AI-enabled platform capabilities, Dynamics 365 modernization and integration, Snowflake and enterprise data modernization, legacy transformation and decommissioning, and FinOps optimization.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Comprehensive benefits package; details are available on the WoodmenLife careers website.
• Friday afternoons off year-round.
• Collaborative environment and strong work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

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