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Cloud Architecture Lead
Job Level: W2T Consultant
Job Location: Hybrid/Onsite-Must be local to Deerfield, IL. Onsite Tues-Thurs.
Travel Expectations: None
Job Classification: Temporary (W2T)
Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love
At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.
The Cloud Architecture Lead is the senior authority responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the company’s end-to-end cloud strategy across AWS and Azure. This role translates enterprise and domain strategies into secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud architecture outcomes that deliver measurable in year savings, drive multiyear simplification, and establish a modern cloud foundation for all business domains.
The role emphasizes engineering discipline, platform reuse, cloud native adoption, and the reduction of ad hoc tools and nonstandard implementations.
In this role, you will:
- Define and evolve the enterprise cloud architecture strategy across AWS and Azure.
- Translate business priorities into cloud target states, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
- Ensure cloud solutions meet standards for scalability, resiliency, security, and cost optimization.
- Drive adoption of cloud native services, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and automation.
- Promote high quality, secure, maintainable engineering practices across teams.
- Identify consolidation, modernization, and retirement opportunities across cloud workloads.
- Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, and Domain Architects to quantify and deliver cloud savings.
- Reduce duplication of platforms, tooling, and custom solutions across cloud environments.
- Serve as the cloud architecture authority in governance forums, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and enterprise standards.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 15 years in cloud, platform, or enterprise architecture roles
- Deep expertise in AWS and Azure services, patterns, and operating models
- Proven experience driving cloud standardization, DevOps maturity, and cost optimization
Strong executive communication and influence skills
Total Rewards:
We proudly offer competitive compensation, and a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being. Benefits offered include health, dental & vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, life insurance, self-managed PTO, paid holidays, parental leave, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments. We also offer access to many voluntary benefits such as Flexible Spending Accounts, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Services, as well as discounts on home, auto and pet insurance
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Time Off When You Need It
- Benefits That Flex
- Professional Development
While benefits eligibility may vary for roles that are non full-time, we provide unique opportunities for growth, skill development, and more. Regardless of your role, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where every team member contributes to our shared success.
Who We Are:
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.
Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.
What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?
We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.
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