Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

About the Role
Our client, a Fortune 500 leader in the financial services industry, is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to drive enterprise-wide cloud strategy, modernization, and technology transformation. This is a high-impact role responsible for shaping the company's cloud architecture standards, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions across a highly regulated environment.
What You'll Do

• Lead Cloud Architecture Strategy: Define and evolve the enterprise cloud architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
• Drive Modernization Initiatives: Architect and guide the migration of legacy systems to cloud-native solutions, focusing on performance, scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Partner with Engineering & Leadership: Work closely with senior leadership, product teams, and infrastructure groups to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Set Governance & Best Practices: Establish cloud governance frameworks, reference architectures, and reusable patterns to ensure consistency across all cloud programs.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a subject-matter expert in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), providing mentorship and guidance to architects and engineering teams.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure all cloud solutions adhere to financial industry compliance standards (PCI, SOC2, FFIEC), as well as enterprise IAM, encryption, and data protection protocols.
• Evaluate New Technologies: Assess emerging cloud services, tools, and platforms; recommend adoption strategies that deliver measurable business value.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive alignment between application development, DevOps, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and data architecture teams.

What We're Looking For

• 10 years of experience in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, microservices, networking, and identity management.
• Experience architecting secure, compliant solutions in highly regulated industries (financial services preferred).
• Proven ability to set technical direction, influence cross-functional teams, and drive complex cloud programs from concept to delivery.
• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud security, IAM, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance controls.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present architectural solutions to both technical and executive audiences.
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert are a plus.

Why Join

• Opportunity to influence cloud strategy at enterprise scale.
• Work within a cutting-edge environment focused on modernization and digital transformation.
• Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence within a mission-critical financial ecosystem.

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