Senior Cloud Architect (AWS and Azure)
Description
Join global Technology & Transformation organization, a cross-functional team driving the next generation of enterprise insurance solutions. We are building and scaling a flagship multi-tenant insurance platform featuring integrated e-billing, real-time analytics, and automated claims workflows servicing thousands of global clients.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to lead, scale, and secure our multi-cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will define architecture strategy and drive cloud automation across AWS, Azure, other clouds, and hybrid on-premises environments. You will streamline enterprise deployments, enhance high availability and reliability, and automate day-to-day operations to power mission-critical financial and claims services at scale.
Requirements
8+ years in IT with 5+ years in enterprise cloud design across multi-cloud environments (Azure & AWS).
Deep knowledge of Well-Architected & Cloud Adoption Frameworks, Terraform, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders, translate business requirements into technical blueprints, and mentor technical teams.
Must have:
- Multi-cloud architecture: expert-level design across Azure, AWS, including IaaS, PaaS and serverless services (GCP nice to have)
- Frameworks: Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks across the major cloud providers
- Landing zones and governance: account and subscription design, policy as code, RBAC, tagging standards
- Networking: hub-and-spoke, transit and vWAN designs, private connectivity (ExpressRoute, Direct Connect), hybrid DNS
- Identity and security: federated identity/SSO, privileged access, zero trust, cloud security posture management
- Infrastructure as code and DevOps: Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar)
- Resilience and cost: high availability, disaster recovery, observability, FinOps
- Modernization: containerization (Kubernetes) and migration strategy
- AI: Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock and/or Google Vertex AI (nice to have)
- Leadership: architecture reviews, reference architectures, vendor evaluation, stakeholder engagement, mentoring
- Design and architecture experience in a large enterprise environment
Job responsibilities
- Architect scalable, resilient solutions across Azure and AWS (IaaS, PaaS, serverless) aligning with Well-Architected Frameworks; lead application modernization and containerization (Kubernetes).
- Design enterprise account/subscription topologies, policy-as-code guardrails, strict RBAC, and tagging standards.
- Oversee hub-and-spoke/vWAN topologies, hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute/Direct Connect), Zero Trust identity/SSO, and Cloud Security Posture Management.
- Enforce IaC with Terraform via CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions); drive cost optimization and FinOps best practices.
- Evaluate and integrate cloud AI platforms (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI).
- Lead architecture review boards, author reference architectures, evaluate vendors, and mentor engineering teams.