Cloud Architect

The Cloud Architect owns the enterprise cloud strategy, architecture, and operations, with primary accountability for public cloud platforms (AWS-first), cloud governance, financial optimisation, and platform reliability. This role ensures cloud services are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned to business and product priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Leads and develops global cloud engineering and platform teams
• Owns performance management, capability development, and succession planning
• Accountable for cloud operating budgets and vendor relationships
• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff.
• Oversees the daily workflow of the department.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy., * Define and execute the enterprise cloud strategy and multi-year roadmap
• Own cloud platform architecture including landing zones, networking, security, and identity integration
• Establish cloud governance, guardrails, and operating models (DTAP, IaC, RBAC)
• Drive cloud financial management (FinOps), cost optimisation, and forecasting
• Ensure platform reliability, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery readiness
• Partner with security, architecture, and application teams to embed cloud best practices
• Oversee cloud vendor relationships and commercial agreements
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements

• Strong leadership experience in large-scale cloud environments
• Deep expertise in AWS (other cloud experience advantageous)
• Strong architectural, financial, and operational acumen
• Ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders
• Excellent communication and executive reporting skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform leadership roles
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud transformations
• Relevant cloud certifications strongly preferred

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