What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Solutions Architect position at Motion Recruitment?
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
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 GCP), 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.
- 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 GCP).
- 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.
- 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.