Enterprise Architect Cloud and Platform

Job Description
Enterprise Architect Cloud & Platform Architecture
Experience Required: 10 16 years overall IT experience; 5 7+ years in cloud/platform architecture; experience with governance and landing zone patterns

1. Background
Client supports our customers cloud and platform modernization initiatives through architecture assessments and advisory engagements.
This role focuses on defining scalable, resilient, and governed cloud/platform architectures aligned with enterprise strategy.

2. Skills Required

• Strong experience in cloud and platform architecture (hybrid/multi-cloud)
• Experience designing enterprise cloud foundations (landing zones, guardrails, workload onboarding)
• Understanding of scalability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance design
• Knowledge of hub-spoke networking patterns, private connectivity, and segmentation
• Experience with RBAC, privileged access patterns, and baseline security controls
• Familiarity with policy-driven governance approaches
• Understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and automation patterns
• Monitoring/observability architecture for centralized logging and alerting
• Awareness of cost optimization/FinOps concepts and tagging standards

3. Responsibilities

• Lead design of cloud landing zone architecture: subscription hierarchy, environment segregation (dev/test/prod), standardized onboarding, and scalable guardrails
• Define identity and access architecture for cloud: RBAC, privileged access patterns (e.g., just-in-time), and separation of duties
• Architect enterprise networking patterns (hub-and-spoke, hybrid connectivity, private endpoints) and standardized segmentation
• Define governance and security baselines using policy-driven controls and enterprise monitoring/security patterns
• Establish platform observability architecture (central logging, metrics, alerting) and integrate security monitoring patterns
• Drive implementation strategy thinking: assessment/planning for landing zones, workload migration suitability, and scalability planning
• Evolve platform foundation toward automation and governance-as-code practices; embed operational controls and cost-awareness principles
• Define reference architectures and golden patterns for application teams to accelerate safe delivery
• Support architecture reviews and ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise architecture direction