Platform Architect
CFS
Madison, WI
Platform Architect | Permanent | No Sponsorship Available | Hybrid - Requires 3 days per week in Madison, WI
ABOUT OUR CLIENT
- The company is financially sound, yet their success is not just defined by their profits; it's about living their core values.
- Ton of opportunity for growth and providing a better place to live and work!
- The company boasts a team-oriented culture and provides its employees with the tools and training necessary to perform.
- Huge Employee Perks!
BENEFITS & COMPENSATION
- Compensation: Up to $155,000 per year + Bonus opportunity
- PTO: Competitive time-off package
- Retirement: Company-sponsored retirement plan
- Medical: Health, vision, and dental plans available for individuals and families
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE PLATFORM ARCHITECT
- Define end-to-end architecture for cloud-hosted applications across AWS and Azure, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency
- Design reference architectures and standards for microservices, serverless, data platforms, and integration workloads
- Lead selection and adoption of core platform services including compute, storage, networking, observability, and CI/CD tooling
- Architect shared platform capabilities such as landing zones, internal developer platforms, and golden paths
- Partner with security teams to embed security-by-design principles including identity management, encryption, and compliance controls
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams while evangelizing cloud-native best practices
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE FOR THE PLATFORM ARCHITECT
- 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps with 3-5+ years in cloud architecture roles
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS or Azure, including advanced knowledge of core services
- Strong background designing cloud-native applications using microservices, containers, and serverless architectures
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of data platforms, API design, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns
- Professional cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect) strongly preferred
Timing is everything. Whether you are aggressively in a job search or simply passive and looking for the ideal position, we would like to have the chance to share our opportunities with you. We specialize in placement of IT professionals. Please contact me for more information about this role as well as other opportunities.
MaxSalary: USD155000
MinSalary: USD130000
About the Company
CFS
Founded by CPA firms in 1994, Creative Financial Staffing has spent over 30 years helping job seekers and employers succeed. In fall 2025, we rebranded as CFS—a name that reflects our full range of expertise while staying true to the trusted company you know.
CFS is the industry’s leading employee-owned staffing firm, connecting top talent in accounting, finance, technology, and human resources. We provide skilled professionals on both a temporary and permanent basis across diverse industries, leveraging our extensive network to match the right people with the right opportunities.
Our dedication to excellence extends to our award-winning culture, recognized repeatedly for growth, recruiting, workplace environment, and employee support. Honors include Forbes’ “America’s Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms,” Staffing Industry Analysts’ top U.S. staffing rankings, FlexJobs’ Top 100 Companies for Remote and Hybrid Work, Top Workplaces USA, Newsweek’s Best Practices awards, and more.