Cloud Architect

Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies•Lansing, MI

69d•Hybrid

About The Position

Own the end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise-wide design standards that enable secure, resilient, and cost-effective delivery of critical business capabilities. Translate strategic business objectives and risk requirements into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures, guiding investment decisions and technology roadmaps. Serve as a senior technical authority and partner to enterprise architecture, engineering, security, and business leaders to ensure solutions meet regulatory obligations, availability and recovery objectives, and financial targets. Lead enterprise cloud solution architecture for highly available and business-critical workloads, including defining reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails that support reliability, resilience, and operational excellence. Develop and lead cloud adoption and migration roadmaps, covering application rationalization, dependency mapping, cutover planning, and post-migration optimization. Establish measures of success for risk reduction, reliability improvement, and cost efficiency. Define cloud security architecture and control objectives in partnership with IT Security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and secure-by-default platform configurations. Ensure designs align with applicable regulatory and audit expectations. Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and risk-based remediation planning, partnering with audit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to meet control testing, evidence, and regulatory requirements. This is a hybrid position, working remotely from the State of Michigan and onsite at the Farm Bureau Home Office in Lansing, Michigan. Candidates are preferred to live within an hour of the office.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Eight to ten years of progressive experience in cloud architecture or engineering, including leading architecture decisions for business-critical platforms in regulated or high-availability environments.
Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including enterprise landing zones, network and identity foundations, and reusable reference architectures.
Experience planning and executing application, data, and infrastructure migrations or modernizations with measurable improvements in resilience, performance, and/or total cost of ownership.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification.
Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect certification.
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or equivalent certification.
FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent cloud cost management certification.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise-wide design standards.
Translate business objectives and risk requirements into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures.
Guide investment decisions and technology roadmaps.
Lead enterprise cloud solution architecture for highly available and business-critical workloads.
Define reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
Develop and lead cloud adoption and migration roadmaps, including application rationalization, dependency mapping, cutover planning, and post-migration optimization.
Establish success measures for risk reduction, reliability improvement, and cost efficiency.
Define cloud security architecture and control objectives in partnership with IT Security.
Ensure cloud designs align with applicable regulatory and audit expectations.
Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and risk-based remediation planning.
Partner with audit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to meet control testing, evidence, and regulatory requirements.