Lead Cloud Architect

Callibrity • Cincinnati, OH

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Callibrity is a developer-owned and managed custom software development consulting company dedicated to creating quality software using modern technologies and adding unquestionable business value to companies across multiple industries and verticals. We are problem solvers who enjoy a challenge and working with modern tech stacks. We offer an incredibly collaborative culture and enjoy solving complex problems with our clients. We are seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to run a high-visibility Azure architecture review for one of Callibrity’s most established financial services clients. This role owns the technical direction of the assessment end-to-end, including the questions asked, evidence gathered, recommendations made, and the story told. The Lead Cloud Architect will direct a Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer, partner with a dedicated Service Delivery Manager, and serve as the client’s primary technical counterpart from kickoff through final presentation. Success is measured by senior leadership across infrastructure, development, security, risk, and finance reaching the same conclusions from the assessment and the resulting roadmap being fundable and sequenced.

Requirements

• Approximately twenty years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software and infrastructure platforms, with substantial depth on Azure and meaningful exposure to hybrid and on-premises environments.
• A track record of guiding clients through full cloud transformation journeys — from initial assessment through landing-zone design, migration, and steady-state operations — not just a single phase of one.
• Deep, current expertise in Azure Landing Zone design, management group and subscription strategy, hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN network topologies, ExpressRoute and VPN resiliency patterns, and private access and DNS integration.
• Strong command of identity architecture on Microsoft Entra ID, including Conditional Access, MFA enforcement, privileged-role design, PIM, Azure Policy coverage, and the practical realities of consolidating production Active Directory under Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience leading Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, with Terraform as a primary tool and working knowledge of Bicep and Azure Verified Modules. Familiarity with common Azure DevOps deployment patterns and what “code-driven, team-owned” looks like in practice.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical findings into fundable, prioritized roadmaps that survive contact with finance, audit, and executive leadership.
• Direct experience delivering assessment work in regulated environments — financial services, insurance, or healthcare — and comfort operating inside the governance rhythms of a federally chartered or similarly regulated institution.
• Senior-presence communication: confident in front of a CIO and equally credible in a working session with the engineers who will operate what you recommend.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience writing assessment reports that are read by mixed audiences — a report you can point to where the executive summary and the technical appendices both did their job.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
• Experience standing up platform-engineering operating models that replaced ticket-driven infrastructure with self-service, code-driven golden paths.
• Familiarity with Azure-native cost-governance levers (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, tagging enforcement, Microsoft Cost Management) and FinOps practice in regulated settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the discovery effort across all nine assessment domains, including stakeholder interviews with technical and business leaders and hands-on review of the client’s Azure tenant, network topology, identity configuration, IaC repositories, deployment paths, cost reporting, and security posture.
• Own the architectural point of view. Assess the current state against Azure Landing Zone guidance and the Well-Architected Framework, identify the foundational moves that unlock everything else, and decide where the report needs to push back versus where it should affirm the client’s existing direction.
• Author the prioritized recommendations and the phased roadmap. Tag each recommendation against the success criteria the client cares about (security, cost, resiliency, auditability, deployment ease, reduction of single-person dependencies), sequence the work with explicit dependency mapping, and make the sequencing logic legible to non-technical readers.
• Direct the Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer on the engagement. Frame the analysis, divide the work, review the output, and make sure the technical depth in the report holds up under scrutiny from the client’s engineers.
• Run the cadence of the engagement with the client: kickoff facilitation, weekly written status, the mid-Phase-2 draft-review working session, and the final presentation to leadership.
• Write the executive narrative. The leadership-ready summary is part of your deliverable, not a hand-off to someone else, and it has to read well to an audience outside technical engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive Hourly Pay
• Impactful Work: Help drive application best practices in a respected organization
• Highly collaborative, low-ego environment focused on problem solving
• Meaningful and impactful client-facing work
• “Small company feel” backed by a stable, award-winning organization
• Company Events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed