Senior Cloud Architect

Strategic Leadership & Vision

Executive Consulting

Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams,customer executive, and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmap into clear business value and risk assessments.

Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on GCP services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Pref AWS).

Architecture Governance: Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments.

DevOps & Cost Strategy

Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models. Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, negotiate large enterprise cloud contracts, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint.

Core Technical Responsibilities

GCP Deep Expertise

Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on GCP, with hands-on experience in leveraging services like

GKE

, Cloud Dataflow , BigQuery , Cloud Run , Vertex AI , and Cloud Spanner .

Interoperability Design

Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management (IAM) across platforms (e.g.,using federated identity or centralized key management).

Advanced Security

Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent Indian regulatory (e.g., data residency) and global compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

Innovation & PoCs

Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock), serverless computing, and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape.

Cloud Migration

experience in Cloud migration strategy and implementation

Observability

Architect a comprehensive visibility strategy to monitor system health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud environments.

Policy Definition

Design automated governance guardrails that ensure every deployment is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized by default.

People Leadership & Mentorship

Team Development

Mentor, coach, and grow a team of Senior/Lead Cloud Architects and engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

Process Improvement

Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Alignment

Collaborate with the Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals.

Required Qualifications Experience:15+ years of progressive experience in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations.

Cloud Platform Mastery

GCP

Mastery of GCP services, networking, and security. Primary Cloud skill

Second Cloud

Deep architectural experience in

AWS

(e.g., EC2,Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS)

Certifications (Preferred )

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (Preferred) Professional/Expert-level Certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).

Technical Stack

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (including multi-cloud modules) At least one programming language ( Java/Python)