Cloud Architecture Strategy & Standards
Define cloud reference architectures, design principles, and guardrails for AWS and Azure.
Develop target-state architectures across networking, compute, data, identity, and platform services.
Establish reusable architectural patterns and design standards for consistent adoption across teams.
Solution Design & Governance
Provide oversight and governance to ensure solutions adhere to security, resilience, cost, and operational requirements.
Conduct architectural reviews, support compliance with cloud guardrails, and ensure alignment with enterprise-wide patterns.
Guide product teams on architectural trade-offs, future-state planning, and selection of platform components.
Technical Leadership Across Teams & Vendors
Lead architectural direction for high-impact cloud initiatives, multi-team platforms, and strategic product builds.
Provide guidance to internal teams and external vendors to ensure architectural consistency and quality.
Collaborate with cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and product owners to shape end-to-end solution design.
Security, Resilience & Operational Excellence
Embed cloud security best practices (IAM, identity federation, encryption, network segmentation, least privilege).
Ensure resilience through multi-AZ/region patterns, automated recovery, failover strategies, and design for high availability.
Contribute to operational readiness through logging, monitoring, cost controls, and lifecycle management of cloud components.
Cost Management & Optimization
Define cost-optimised architecture patterns and guide teams on capacity planning, rightsizing, and cloud economics.
Partner with FinOps/operations teams to improve visibility into consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Architecture Enablement & Knowledge Sharing
Provide architectural coaching and guidance to engineers, promoting cloud fluency across teams.
Maintain architecture documentation, reusable reference designs, and platform guidelines.
Contribute to developing ERM’s cloud operating model and long-term architecture roadmap.
Influence And Decision-Making Authority
Sets architectural direction for cloud platforms, shared services, and multi-team product ecosystems.
Influences enterprise-level decisions
regarding
cloud technology choices, patterns, and target-state evolution.
Drives decisions on security, performance, resilience, and cost trade-offs across solutions.
Shapes standards and governance processes adopted across delivery teams and vendors.
Job Requirements & Capabilities
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise-grade solutions on cloud platforms.
Deep hands-on architectural exposure across AWS and Azure, including multi-account/subscription architectures.
Experience leading or governing cloud adoption across multiple products, teams, or business units.
Technical Skills
Deep
expertise
in cloud infrastructure architecture across
compute
, networking, storage, IAM, security, and observability, with a primary focus on building and operating
AI
ready
platforms.
Hands
on experience designing and running shared AI platforms using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), container orchestration, serverless components, and distributed systems
.
Knowledge of cloud-native networking, hybrid connectivity, VPN/Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, load balancing, and private endpoints.
Proficiency
in
Infrastructure
as
Code
(Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and automated platform provisioning, including environment standardization and guardrails.
Strong grasp of resilience patterns, multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, and zero-trust security principles.
Strong
focus on cost governance for AI platforms, including usage metering, quota management, autoscaling controls, and optimization of inference costs.
Proficiency
with
Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry
including tenant isolation, identity integration, quota enforcement, networking controls, observability, and
enterprise
scale
deployment patterns.
Strong
LLMOps
experience
, including model lifecycle management, versioning, prompt/config management, rollout strategies (
blue
green
/canary), monitoring, alerting, and operational governance for large language models.
Behavioral Skills
Strong leadership presence and ability to influence decisions across cross-functional and multi-vendor environments.
Excellent communicator able to articulate complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Structured thinker with a strategic mindset and ability to plan for future-state architectures.
Pragmatic, collaborative, and able to balance ideal design with delivery constraints.
Comfortable working in dynamic environments involving ambiguity and evolving technical landscapes.
Desirable / Nice to Have
Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent.
Experience designing internal developer platforms or shared cloud platforms at scale.
Exposure to enterprise security frameworks, compliance requirements, and cloud governance tooling.
Experience leading architectural modernization programs or cloud migrations.
Background in platform engineering, SRE, or distributed systems design.
