Domain Architect - Cloud

About the role

A hands-on Domain Architect - Cloud is sought to turn enterprise cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency and operational requirements into practical architecture standards, reference patterns, templates and governance artefacts. You will guide product teams and vendors through the cloud solution lifecycle, review enterprise-scale designs, assess architectural compliance and give recommendations and approval inputs at defined quality gates. The position is full time and onsite.

Key responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency and operational policies into clear cloud architecture standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, approved patterns, design templates, review checklists, quality-gate criteria and architecture decision records.
• Define standards covering cloud landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability and infrastructure automation.
• Provide hands-on cloud architecture guidance during planning, sourcing, design, implementation and operational-readiness stages.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs and disaster-recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess cloud solutions for compliance with security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency and operational requirements.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, technical debt and non-compliance, and recommend remediation actions.
• Promote reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns and infrastructure templates.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and support cloud architecture quality gates.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud technologies, including cloud architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Ability to identify architectural risks, compliance gaps and technical debt, and to guide product teams and vendors through cloud planning, design, implementation and readiness.
• Preferred: a professional-level cloud architecture certification and experience in government, regulated-sector or large-enterprise environments.

Required skills

• Cloud landing zones, networking, security and identity and access management
• Containers, hosting, resilience, disaster recovery and observability
• Infrastructure as code