Senior Technical Architect

Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Architect to design and implement enterprise cloud foundations, security controls and network architectures. The candidate should have deep expertise in at least one major cloud-Azure, AWS or GCP-and working knowledge of another.

The role focuses on landing zones, governance, shared services and infrastructure modernization, supported by strong automation and technical leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing cloud environments and define target architectures, modernization approaches and implementation roadmaps.
• Design enterprise landing zones covering resource hierarchy, identity, networking, security and shared services.
• Establish governance standards for access management, policy enforcement, resource organization, tagging and cost management.
• Design hybrid connectivity, network segmentation, private access, DNS and centralized traffic inspection.
• Define security baselines and modernization approaches for identity, network security and shared infrastructure.
• Develop reusable infrastructure provisioning frameworks using Terraform and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.
• Design high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring and operational readiness.
• Plan phased migrations, coexistence, validation and rollback for changes to production environments.
• Lead client workshops or discovery sessions and prepare architecture documents, proposals, effort estimates and delivery plans.
• Guide implementation teams, review technical solutions and mentor engineers.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP), plus basic knowledge of a second
• Experience delivering enterprise cloud foundations and landing zones.
• Strong knowledge of resource hierarchy, IAM, identity federation and policy-based governance.
• Strong cloud networking knowledge, including routing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity and hybrid integration.
• Experience with encryption, secrets management, security baselines and compliance controls.
• Hands-on Terraform experience, including reusable modules, state management and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Understanding of DevSecOps, policy as code and infrastructure change controls.
• Experience with observability, resilience, disaster recovery and cloud cost management.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Strong architecture documentation, stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.

Good to Have

• Multi-region cloud deployments and enterprise network modernization.
• Cloud security posture management and centralized security monitoring.
• Kubernetes, managed container services or OpenShift.
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments.
• Relevant cloud architecture or security certifications.

Good to Have - AI

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure requirements for AI workloads.
• Awareness of secure model access, AI platform governance and data protection.
• Understanding of AI usage monitoring, quotas and inference cost management.

Mandatory Competencies