Senior Cloud Architect

Guild Mortgage•,

3d•$124,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Architect serves as the technical architecture lead responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving secure, scalable, resilient cloud platform solutions that enable enterprise applications, shared platform services, and enterprise data capabilities. Working within established enterprise architecture principles and cloud strategy, this role translates architectural direction into practical implementation patterns, engineering standards, reference architectures, and reusable platform capabilities. The Senior Cloud Architect partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architecture, Platform Engineering, Platform Operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Security, Delivery teams, and technology stakeholders to modernize cloud platforms, improve operational maturity, establish automation, and ensure consistent implementation of cloud engineering standards across the enterprise. Unlike strategic architecture leadership roles, this position focuses on operationalizing enterprise architecture through hands-on technical leadership, engineering collaboration, platform modernization, and implementation guidance while continuously improving reliability, scalability, security, automation, and operational excellence across assigned cloud platform domains.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree directly related to the position or equivalent, preferred
Minimum five years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions.
Experience architecting cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure or another enterprise public cloud provider.
Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures supporting enterprise workloads.
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud platform engineering practices.
Experience designing cloud security, identity, networking, resiliency, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Experience evaluating cloud technologies and recommending implementation approaches that improve operational maturity and engineering efficiency.
Experience partnering with engineering teams to modernize cloud platforms and establish reusable engineering standards.
Experience with source control systems, Git-based workflows, and modern software development lifecycle practices.
Experience working within Agile delivery environments utilizing tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration platforms.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills across complex technical environments.
Demonstrated ability to communicate architectural concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
Highly organized and detail-oriented; ability to work in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, Wiki, collaborative cloud-based programs, and third-party software applications required.
Commitment to company values.
Work is primarily sedentary; mobility in an office setting
Ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards
Regularly required to accurately perceive, distinguish and interpret information received visually and through audio; e.g., words, numbers and other data broadcasted aloud/viewed on a screen, as well as print and other media.
Ability to accurately interpret sounds and associated meanings at a volume consistent with interpersonal conversation.
Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting one or more enterprise cloud platform domains, including: Application Platforms, Enterprise Data Platforms, Integration Platforms, Shared Platform Services, Cloud Infrastructure Platforms

Responsibilities

Design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud platform architectures that align with enterprise architecture principles, security standards, and operational objectives.
Translate enterprise architecture strategies into practical solution designs, reference architectures, reusable implementation patterns, and engineering standards.
Develop technical architectures that support cloud platform modernization, operational excellence, and long-term maintainability.
Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to ensure proposed solutions align with established architectural standards.
Partner with engineering teams to modernize cloud platform capabilities and improve operational maturity across assigned platform domains.
Design reusable cloud platform services, implementation patterns, and engineering frameworks that accelerate delivery while reducing operational complexity.
Evaluate cloud platform services, technologies, and engineering approaches to improve scalability, resiliency, security, automation, and cost optimization.
Design and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code, Pipeline as Code, and Policy as Code practices across cloud platforms.
Establish reusable deployment templates, automation frameworks, and CI/CD implementation standards that improve engineering consistency and delivery quality.
Ensure cloud platform implementations align with enterprise governance, security, regulatory, compliance, and operational standards.
Incorporate identity, networking, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness into cloud platform designs.
Identify implementation risks and recommend mitigation strategies that improve platform reliability, security, and operational supportability.
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout solution design, implementation, deployment, and operational support activities.
Mentor engineers and technical teams on cloud architecture patterns, platform engineering practices, automation, and cloud-native design principles.
Partner with technical leaders to solve complex platform challenges and improve engineering effectiveness.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architecture, Platform Engineering, Platform Operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Security, and Delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of enterprise cloud platforms.
Contribute to technology evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, architecture reviews, and platform improvement efforts.
Document architectural decisions, implementation patterns, technical standards, and operational guidance for engineering teams.
Participate in project planning activities by providing architectural guidance, technical estimates, implementation recommendations, and risk assessments.