Lead Cloud Architect GCP

Humana • Louisville, KY

1d • $142,300 - $195,700 • Remote

About The Position

The Lead Cloud Architect leads the planning, design, and engineering of enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform. This role provides technical direction for secure, scalable, resilient, and integrated cloud solutions that support enterprise application teams and business technology objectives. The Lead Cloud Architect works on complex problems of moderate to substantial scope, evaluating architecture options and guiding technical decisions across interdependent cloud, security, networking, automation, and platform technologies. The Lead Cloud Architect provides technical leadership, architecture direction, and engineering guidance for enterprise Google Cloud Platform capabilities. This role is responsible for technical planning, architecture development, and ongoing evolution of GCP computing environments. The goal is to ensure cloud solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards. The Lead Cloud Architect develops architecture specifications, reference patterns, engineering standards, and service offerings for cloud infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. This includes evaluating new and existing cloud products and services, assessing compatibility and integration across interdependent technologies, and recommending standards that enable consistent and governed cloud adoption across the enterprise. This role partners with cloud platform engineering, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application delivery teams, and technology leaders to define and implement cloud strategies that support modernization, automation, reliability, and operational excellence. The Lead Cloud Architect advises leaders on complex technical matters and helps shape functional strategies with segment-specific or enterprise-wide impact. The Lead Cloud Architect works under minimal supervision and exercises independent judgment on complex issues requiring analysis of multiple technical, operational, security, and business factors. This role determines appropriate courses of action, drives stakeholder alignment, and provides technical direction to ensure cloud platform capabilities meet current and future business needs.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree
• 8 or more years of technical experience
• 2 or more years of project leadership experience
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Nice To Haves

• GCP Certification(s)
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud platforms, preferably with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, networking, identity and access management, security controls, observability, resiliency, and operational support models.
• Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture decisions across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Ability to evaluate complex technical options, assess risk and integration impacts, and recommend enterprise-ready solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to advise technical teams, senior leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, policy automation, logging, monitoring, and platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Leads the planning, design, and engineering of enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform.
• Provides technical direction for secure, scalable, resilient, and integrated cloud solutions.
• Works on complex problems of moderate to substantial scope, evaluating architecture options and guiding technical decisions across interdependent cloud, security, networking, automation, and platform technologies.
• Develops architecture specifications, reference patterns, engineering standards, and service offerings for cloud infrastructure and cloud-native platforms.
• Evaluates new and existing cloud products and services, assessing compatibility and integration across interdependent technologies, and recommending standards.
• Partners with cloud platform engineering, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application delivery teams, and technology leaders to define and implement cloud strategies.
• Advises leaders on complex technical matters and helps shape functional strategies.
• Determines appropriate courses of action, drives stakeholder alignment, and provides technical direction to ensure cloud platform capabilities meet current and future business needs.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

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