Job Description

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 decisionsregardingcloud 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

• Deepexpertisein cloud infrastructure architecture acrosscompute, networking, storage, IAM, security, and observability, with a primary focus on building and operatingAIreadyplatforms.

• Handson 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.

• ProficiencyinInfrastructureasCode(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.

• Strongfocus on cost governance for AI platforms, including usage metering, quota management, autoscaling controls, and optimization of inference costs.

• Proficiencywith Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundryincluding tenant isolation, identity integration, quota enforcement, networking controls, observability, andenterprisescaledeployment patterns.

• StrongLLMOpsexperience, including model lifecycle management, versioning, prompt/config management, rollout strategies (bluegreencanary), 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.