Sr. Architect - Cloud Platforms

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for technical solutions and pricing regarding new RFP's, RFI's.

- Serve as subject matter expert to assist projects on technical matters and address needs of the client and other stakeholders

- Make recommendations to integrate new custom and cloud software, coordinate installation and support operations.

- Establish and enforce engineering and cloud computing best practices and standards

- Lead new product development, including services evaluation, POC (proof of concept) development and recommendation to adopt to ever changing technology trends

- Ensure the smooth working of PaaS platform and automation of infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, monitoring tasks.

- Provide recommendations on technical architecture to fine tune outer and inner architecture.

- Support the automation of manual tasks in the product integration and deployment life cycle.

- Serve as subject matter expert in the design, implementation, governance and support of key technology platforms.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture (AWS)

- Define enterprise AWS architecture patterns for multi account, secure, and scalable environments.

- Govern infrastructure design across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and data services.

- Set standards for resilience (HA/DR), cost optimization, and security posture.

- Provide architectural oversight for RDS, OpenSearch, messaging, and distributed systems.

Cloud Native & Kubernetes Strategy

- Define and evolve Kubernetes platform strategy (EKS) across environments.

- Establish standards for GitOps, Helm, multi cluster operations, and platform abstraction.

- Drive adoption of secure, scalable cloud native patterns.

- Ensure integration of runtime security, observability, and policy enforcement.

DevSecOps & Secure SDLC Leadership

- Define and govern enterprise DevSecOps strategy, standards, and operating models.

- Architect secure CI/CD frameworks with built in quality, security, and compliance gates.

- Establish enterprise patterns for software supply chain security, including SCA, artifact governance, and policy enforcement.

- Standardize and oversee tooling across SonarQube, JFrog (Artifactory/Xray), Jenkins, and GitOps (Argo CD).

- Drive shift left security adoption and developer enablement.

- Align DevSecOps practices with security, risk, and compliance requirements.

Data & Integration Architecture

- Define architecture for data platforms and ETL ecosystems (e.g., Talend).

- Ensure secure, resilient integration patterns across databases, messaging, APIs, and file transfer systems.

- Establish standards for data reliability, observability, and performance optimization.

Platform Engineering & Developer Experience

- Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and self service capabilities.

- Define reusable platform services, APIs, and golden paths for development teams.

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