Cloud Architect

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Sales and Competency Heads to develop account strategies and drive cloud adoption opportunities across key accounts.
• Understand customers business objectives, existing IT environments, operational challenges, and cloud transformation requirements.
• Identify gaps and improvement areas within customers infrastructure, applications, and cloud architecture, and collaborate with internal SMEs to design effective and scalable solutions.
• Develop and maintain cloud technology roadmaps aligned with customers business and digital transformation goals.
• Lead the technical engagement for customer bids and proposals, including solution architecture, bill of materials (BOM), scope of work (SOW), effort estimation, and technical proposal preparation.
• Provide architectural leadership and technical direction for complex cloud transformation and migration projects.
• Lead requirements analysis and solution design workshops to ensure proposed solutions meet both business and technical objectives.
• Drive end-to-end cloud solution design covering infrastructure, networking, security, identity, monitoring, resiliency, and governance.
• Provide oversight during implementation to ensure solutions are deployed according to architecture standards, best practices, and security requirements.
• Lead integration design across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments to ensure seamless interoperability and solution delivery.
• Assess project risks, technical constraints, and operational impacts, and make architectural decisions to mitigate delivery and implementation risks.
• Review and approve technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design specifications, implementation guides, and operational handover documents.
• Support Project Managers in stakeholder engagement, technical governance, and customer communications throughout the project lifecycle.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, cybersecurity trends, and industry best practices to continuously enhance solution offerings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant industry certifications such as:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent security certifications
• At least 8 years of IT experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a cloud architecture or solutioning role.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Good understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and hybrid cloud technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud solutions and migration strategies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities, including handling complex technical escalations.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong presentation, communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Experience managing or supporting large-scale enterprise projects across multiple technology domains.
• Familiarity with regulated industries and enterprise environments such as CII, FSI, or commercial sectors is advantageous.
• Positive working attitude, strong ownership mindset, and passion for cloud and cybersecurity technologies.