Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement

Gal Manufacturing, a Vantage Elevation Company • New York, NY

1d • $160,000 - $230,000 • Remote

About The Position

If you are a forward-thinking technology professional interested in cloud architecture, enterprise integration, and digital transformation, we invite you to explore this opportunity! We are seeking a pragmatic and collaborative Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement to join the Vantage Elevation technology team. You will play a key role in designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions that advance our cloud and digital transformation strategy while connecting business needs with enterprise applications, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and external technology partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, application development, systems integration, cloud engineering, or a related field.
• Three or more years of direct experience designing and implementing cloud or hybrid-cloud solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise applications and on-premises systems.
• Understanding of APIs, middleware, data integration, application integration, and modern integration patterns.
• Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision documents, and implementation roadmaps.
• Experience working across infrastructure, application, data, cybersecurity, and business teams.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to executive and business audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Microsoft Entra ID, or related Microsoft technologies.
• Experience with manufacturing, distribution, industrial services, or private-equity-backed organizations.
• Knowledge of ERP, CPQ, CRM, product lifecycle management, manufacturing execution, supply chain, and financial systems.
• Experience modernizing or integrating legacy enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud automation.
• Understanding of data lakehouse, semantic-layer, master-data-management, data-governance, and AI architecture concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud cost-management and FinOps practices.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certification, such as Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or TOGAF.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud solution architectures aligned with the company's business strategy, technology roadmap, security requirements, and financial objectives.
• Design secure and scalable cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises solutions.
• Establish reusable cloud architecture patterns, reference designs, standards, and implementation guardrails.
• Evaluate workloads and recommend appropriate migration approaches, including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, replacing, retaining, or retiring applications.
• Support cloud landing zones, network architecture, identity and access management, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and governance capabilities.
• Promote the effective use of cloud-native services, automation, infrastructure as code, containers, APIs, and managed services where appropriate.
• Translate business, application, data, infrastructure, and security requirements into comprehensive solution designs.
• Develop architecture diagrams, data flows, integration patterns, interface specifications, deployment models, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ensure cloud solutions integrate effectively with ERP, CPQ, CRM, manufacturing, financial, data, analytics, and other enterprise platforms.
• Define integration approaches using APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, batch processing, and other appropriate technologies.
• Identify architectural dependencies, technical constraints, implementation risks, and required remediation activities.
• Ensure solutions are supportable, maintainable, resilient, and appropriately documented.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to design cloud-based data platforms, data pipelines, data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, and business intelligence environments.
• Support the secure movement of data between on-premises applications and cloud platforms.
• Help define architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic models, reporting, advanced analytics, and AI use cases.
• Ensure data solutions address security, lineage, data quality, retention, scalability, and governance requirements.
• Support the integration of operational and financial data across multiple enterprise systems.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and risk-management requirements into solution designs.
• Apply secure-by-design principles across identity, network, application, infrastructure, and data architecture.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to define appropriate controls for access, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards and cloud governance policies.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technology evaluations, design approvals, and risk assessments.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the full solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Collaborate with project managers, business leaders, application owners, infrastructure teams, developers, data engineers, cybersecurity resources, and third-party providers.
• Review technical deliverables and confirm that implementations remain consistent with approved designs.
• Facilitate design workshops and communicate technical concepts to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Identify trade-offs among cost, speed, complexity, security, scalability, and business value.
• Provide technical leadership without becoming a bottleneck to delivery.
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex cross-platform issues.
• Evaluate cloud platforms, software products, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
• Participate in vendor selection, technical due diligence, requests for proposal, statements of work, and solution reviews.
• Validate vendor recommendations and ensure proposed designs align with enterprise standards and business requirements.
• Help manage architectural dependencies across multiple vendors and concurrent transformation initiatives.
• Monitor cloud consumption and recommend opportunities to improve performance, licensing, and operating costs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual incentive opportunity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Professional development and growth opportunities

What This Job Offers

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