Hybrid Cloud Architect

Hybrid Cloud Architect

(Senior Technology Architect - Hybrid Infrastructure & Cloud)

Contract

Charlotte, NC

On-site 3 days/week,

Position Summary: The Senior Technology Architect will provide technical and architectural leadership across a complex enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and AWS cloud services. The role will define technology direction, evaluate solutions, guide modernization and cloud adoption, and ensure architectures meet requirements for security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and operational supportability. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the financial services sector.

Key Functions and Responsibilities:

• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for enterprise infrastructure and platforms.

• Lead architecture reviews for new solutions, infrastructure changes, modernization initiatives, and cloud migrations.

• Develop technology standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and architecture decision records.

• Design and review hybrid architectures integrating on-premises environments with AWS.

• Provide architectural guidance across (list is not exhaustive):

• RHEL, Windows Server

• IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server

• IBM MQ and enterprise integration

• WAN, LAN, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network security

• Infrastructure security, identity, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery

• Evaluate technology alternatives and provide recommendations based on risk, security, resiliency, performance, cost, and maintainability.

• Identify technical debt, lifecycle risks, single points of failure, and opportunities for modernization and simplification.

• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, networking, database, middleware, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations to both technical teams and senior leadership.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience, including significant architecture or technical leadership experience.
• Strong experience designing hybrid on-premises and AWS environments
• Strong knowledge of AWS, RHEL, Windows Server, DB2, SQL Server, IBM MQ, networking, and enterprise security.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, security architecture, and technology modernization.
• Strong systems-thinking, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical standards, roadmaps, and executive-level recommendations.

Qualifications Desired:

• AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent certification.
• Prior software development experience, including familiarity with the full systems development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes/OpenShift, or similar technologies.
• Experience with cloud governance, observability, FinOps, or enterprise cloud landing zones.
• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration or infrastructure modernization programs.