Enterprise Architect - EA Cloud & Infrastructure
About The Position
The Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Infrastructure is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the enterprise cloud and infrastructure architecture to enable scalable, secure, and cost-effective technology platforms across the organization. This role serves as the enterprise authority on cloud and infrastructure architecture, shaping how platforms are designed, governed, and optimized to support long-term business and engineering strategies. Operating at the intersection of enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and DevOps, this position translates business priorities into cloud-enabled architecture, standards, and reference models that drive speed, resilience, and efficiency at scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- 10+ + years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles
- Vendor technical leadership: review delivered work, spot risks early, and drive quality outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence and drive alignment without direct authority, balancing standards with delivery realities.
- Proven ability to communicate architectural vision and recommendations to senior leadership.
- 8 years of relevant work experience is required. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline.
- Familiarity with regulated or mission-critical environments such as utilities, energy, finance, or infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise cloud and infrastructure reference architecture across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure designs
- Ensure alignment between infrastructure platforms, application architectures, and enterprise integration patterns
- Partner with platform engineering and DevOps teams to align CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure-as-code practices with enterprise architecture direction
- Drive adoption of modern infrastructure patterns, including containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes), and service mesh where appropriate
- Influence enterprise-wide adoption of standards and platform strategies
- Establish and enforce cloud governance standards, including policy-as-code, tagging, cost management, and lifecycle controls
- Lead FinOps and cost optimization strategies to ensure efficient use of cloud resources
- Define guardrails that balance developer autonomy with security, compliance, and operational reliability
- Provide architectural review and guidance for Cloud initiatives to mitigate technical risk and ensure long-term sustainability.
- Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, legacy platform transformation, and automation strategies
- Enable incremental migration approaches that reduce risk and support parallel operation
- Evaluate emerging technologies and determine strategic fit within the enterprise architecture
- Define cloud security architecture, including identity, access management, network segmentation, and zero-trust principles
- Ensure alignment with enterprise cybersecurity, regulatory, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP where applicable)
- Identify and mitigate enterprise-level infrastructure risks
Benefits
- Compensation Range: $116,255.00 - $151,132.50
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
