Cloud Architect

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to lead our enterprise AWS architecture vision and drive cloud‑native modernization across the organization. You will define target‑state architectures, set engineering standards, and govern cloud strategy while working closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure security, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Own the enterprise AWS architecture vision, reference architectures, engineering standards and cloud governance model.
• Define target‑state architectures, cloud guardrails and operating principles for all AWS environments.
• Establish a cloud‑native, managed‑services‑first strategy, including technology selection criteria and exception processes.
• Design and govern a multi‑account AWS environment using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, OUs, IAM, networking and security boundaries.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for cloud modernization, technical debt reduction, and workload migration.
• Create approved AWS service catalogs, reusable design patterns and reference architectures for compute, containers, serverless, storage, databases, integration, observability and data platforms.
• Set standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, policy‑as‑code, automated testing and cloud platform automation.
• Define observability, monitoring, logging and telemetry architecture using Datadog and native AWS services.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering and application teams to establish landing‑zone architecture, security, resiliency, disaster recovery and cost‑optimization standards.
• Review and approve complex solution designs, cloud migrations and strategic platform initiatives.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise‑scale AWS environments.
• Strong background in cloud architecture, multi‑account management and security.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower and IAM.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross‑functional teams and influence architectural decisions.

Required skills

• AWS (including VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway).
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Policy‑as‑code and CI/CD automation (GitLab, pipelines).
• DevSecOps practices and deployment strategies.
• Observability tools such as Datadog and AWS CloudWatch.