Cloud Architect

Expleo • Minneapolis, MN

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Trissential is hiring a Cloud Architect to join their client's team. This role focuses on bridging enterprise strategy with hands-on cloud modernization, shaping a secure, scalable, and cost-conscious hybrid-cloud environment. It's a highly visible enterprise architecture role influencing cloud strategy, governance, modernization roadmaps, and executive decision-making. The architect will balance innovation, compliance, operational resilience, and business outcomes while accelerating Azure adoption alongside critical on-premises and co-location environments. The position requires establishing 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant architecture experience will be considered.
• Microsoft Azure certifications highly preferred.
• TOGAF certification strongly preferred.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner, CISSP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or related certifications are highly desirable.
• 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.

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.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation – You choose the model that works best for you, both with company-sponsored benefits!
• $167,000–$177,000 annually or $100–$110 per hour.
• Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents – Extensive Medical Plans, Dental, Vision, HSA with company contribution, company sponsored Life Insurance and Short / Long term disability insurance, a host of voluntary plans including legal, hospital, accident, pet wellness, and 401k with matching.
• Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off
• Career Development and Advancement – Expleo is a global company in 29 Countries worldwide with a high focus on development
• Strong Team Culture – Collaborate with experienced professionals who value precision, performance, and teamwork

What This Job Offers

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