Cloud Architect

The roleThe Cloud Architect is responsible for defining and governing the cloud strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmap for the RegApps portfolio. The role will lead cloud transformation initiatives, ensure secure and resilient AWS platform adoption, and drive modernization of applications, infrastructure, DevOps practices, observability, and operational excellence.This role partners with Platform Engineering, Tooling, and Application teams to deliver stable, scalable, and low-toil platform operations while continually improving observability, automation, and recovery readiness.Define and maintain cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns across the RegApps portfolio.Develop cloud transformation and modernization roadmaps aligned to business and technology strategyLead solution architecture reviews and provide governance for cloud implementations across projects and programs.Design and govern AWS infrastructure and platform services including EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, Transit Gateway, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, and related services.Establish secure cloud architecture patterns incorporating Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and security best practices.Drive application modernization initiatives including containerization, cloud-native architectures, microservices adoption, and serverless computing.Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams to improve scalability, resilience, automation, recovery readiness, and operational excellence.Support application onboarding to cloud platforms and ensure adherence to architecture, security, operational readiness, and compliance standards.Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to improve reliability through observability, proactive monitoring, incident prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives.Define observability strategies across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting capabilities using tools such as Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch.Collaborate with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise, government, and regulatory requirements.Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), Change Advisory Boards (CAB), technical governance forums, and strategic planning activities.Create and maintain architecture artefacts, reference designs, standards, runbooks, technical documentation, and knowledge repositories.Identify technology risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities, and establish remediation roadmapsYour responsibilities will also include gathering system and user requirements, building modules and testing features before release. You must have hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining functional, secure and high-quality applications. To be successful in this role you will have:Experience in SLA-driven / managed services (BAU) environments with structured incident/problem management practices.Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS including EKS, EC2, IAM, networking, storage.Working knowledge of serverless services (e.g., AWS Lambda, event triggers, and serverless operational troubleshooting).Strong Kubernetes fundamentals (pods, services, ingress, autoscaling), plus operational experience with upgrades and security.Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, scripting (Shell/Python).Observability: Dynatrace / Prometheus / Grafana / ELKExcellent communication abilitiesWork on creating use case documents.Prepare Knowledge repository for project(s)Willingness to learn new technologies and domain areas.To help us level up, you'll ideally have:8–15 years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles.Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale AWS platforms and cloud transformation programs.Demonstrated experience leading application modernization, migration, and cloud adoption initiatives.Experience operating within regulated, government, or enterprise environments with strong governance requirements.Proven track record of architecture leadership across multiple projects, teams, and technology domains.Strong understanding of ITIL, Agile, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.Experience participating in architecture governance forums and executive-level stakeholder engagement.AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (preferred).AWS Security, Networking, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), TOGAF, or FinOps certifications highly regarded.If you only meet some of the requirements for this role, that's okay…We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have the curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we'd love to hear from you.Bonus points if you have:Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field.Project & team management experience preferred but not essential.Experience handling transition