We're hiring an IT Enterprise Cloud Architect to join our team in Richmond, VA. This role offers a hybrid schedule, with one week remote and one week in the office.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Must be able to work on a W-2
- 10 years of experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, solution design, platform strategy, or large-scale technology transformation
- Knowledgeable in both Azure and AW
- Demonstrated ability to develop technology strategy and roadmaps, connect architecture decisions to business outcomes, and guide change across a large, complex organization
- Strong enterprise and solution architecture skills across business, application, data, integration, security, infrastructure, and operations domains
- Executive-ready written and verbal communication skills; ability to tell a clear architecture story, facilitate difficult decisions, build consensus, and professionally challenge assumptions
- Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, work effectively in matrixed teams, and build trusted relationships with business leaders, engineers, security teams, and vendors
- Experience creating and governing reference architectures, principles, standards, reusable patterns, architecture decision records, and technology lifecycle roadmaps
- Knowledgeable in Azure and AWS
- Experience leading architecture reviews and evaluating solutions for security, compliance, availability, scalability, performance, interoperability, maintainability, supportability, and cost
- Practical knowledge of cloud operating models, landing zones, account/subscription structures, identity and access management, network segmentation, private connectivity, encryption, logging, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
- Experience with Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps, policy as code, automated security controls, configuration management, and software supply-chain practices
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain enterprise cloud strategy, principles, target-state architectures, reference architectures, standards, and multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives and technology strategy
- Partner with business and technology leaders to translate business capabilities, risks, regulatory obligations, and investment priorities into actionable architecture decisions and transition plans
- Lead architecture for major cloud, hybrid-cloud, migration, modernization, platform, and shared-service initiatives from early concept through delivery and operational readiness
- Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to define reusable cloud architecture patterns and guardrails for identity, networking, compute, containers, serverless, storage, databases, integration, security, observability, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and cost management
- Provide architecture governance through design reviews, standards conformance, exception evaluation, risk identification, and practical remediation guidance
- Assess the current technology landscape, identify capability gaps, duplication, technical debt, lifecycle risk, and modernization opportunities, and recommend sequenced improvements
- Guide workload placement, cloud service standards, and solution architecture design using business value, security, compliance, resiliency, performance, operability, portability, and total-cost considerations
- Advance secure-by-design and automation-by-default practices, including Infrastructure as code, policy as code, continuous integration and delivery, GitOps, automated testing, and continuous compliance
- Communicate architecture direction, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership, in clear business language
Education/Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or Associate; AWS Certified Security - Specialty or Advanced Networking - Specialty is a plus
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Azure Security Engineer Associate is a plus
- TOGAF certification or comparable enterprise architecture experience
- Other relevant cloud, security, networking, Kubernetes, FinOps, or DevOps certifications
Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in enterprise and cloud architecture with a strong ability to develop technology strategies and roadmaps. They must possess excellent communication skills to influence and collaborate across organizational boundaries. Experience with cloud operating models, Infrastructure as Code, and security practices is essential. Relevant certifications in AWS, Azure, and enterprise architecture are highly desirable.
The hourly rate for this position is $93.89.
TM Floyd & Company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
We offer a generous array of benefits, depending on the length of assignment. We also offer a referral bonus of up to $1,000. Ask us for more details!
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