Platform Architect

The Platform Architect leads the creation and execution of strategic cloud architecture and platform initiatives, driving innovation and ensuring the seamless integration of complex cloud solutions across the organization. This role involves setting architectural standards, golden path patterns, conducting POCs, evaluating tools, mentoring teams, and influencing the overall cloud strategy to support long-term business objectives. Your Role Responsibilities? Here’s What You’ll Do. Lead the development of platform/cloud strategy within platform engineering, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Design and oversee the implementation of complex, multi-cloud architectures, with hands-on involvement in proof-of-concepts and critical technical decisions.
• Design and refine the workload deployment pattern.
• Drive orchestration and provisioning architecture
• Establish and enforce platform specific standards and best practices, driving consistency and quality across cloud solutions and deployments.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and stakeholders to define cloud strategy, roadmaps, and business cases, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
• Perform advanced risk assessments and develop comprehensive mitigation strategies, addressing security, compliance, and operational risks in cloud environments.
• Lead the evaluation and integration of new cloud technologies and tools, assessing their potential impact and benefits for the organization.
• Drive continuous improvement in cloud architecture practices, utilizing feedback, performance data, and industry trends to refine and enhance architectural approaches.
• Lead Platform’s role in cloud transformation (orchestration, provisioning, workload patterns), ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and in accordance with architectural standards.
• Share architectural insights with peers and industry professionals.
• Operate as a trusted advisor on issues and trends; provide general consulting services leveraging expertise and significant best practice knowledge
• Drive adoption of architectural best practices within platform teams through knowledge sharing and coaching on current best practices and market trends
• Mentor, coach, train, and provide feedback to other team members; provide feedback to leadership on abilities of team

Technology Tools

• Public Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• CI/CD Pipeline Tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Containerization & Orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Security & Compliance Monitoring Tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud, AWS Security Hub), * Define technical direction, system architecture, and software architecture for supported programs, including the ownership of non-functional requirements, in alignment with functional requirements, program standards, and enterprise architecture.

• Lead technical designs and provide oversight for design implements and codebase. Ensure application of industry standards and best practices in technical designs and code and system development.

• Collaborate with product management to refine teams’ and/or program backlogs by reviewing business cases, providing estimates, defining architectural enablers, and identifying and addressing implementation risks.

• Collaborate with technical and architectural leadership across teams within a program to ensure that technical designs are in line with the enterprise architecture, and in compliance with product and industry practices and regulations.

• Own the architectural roadmap and actively contribute to the product roadmap in collaboration with program leadership.

• Mentor, coach, train, and provide feedback to other program members. Provide feedback to leadership on technical abilities of team.

• Operate as a trusted advisor to influence and lead the application of standard processes and practices within a program, including backlog refinement, planning, work estimation, solution demos, and software reviews.

• Develop prototypes to evaluate and demonstrate architectural concepts and new technologies for software design.

• Operate as an innovative thought leader. Contribute to the overall growth and quality of the program and its teams through knowledge sharing and coaching on current best practices and market trends for software design.

• Comply with all corporate and departmental privacy and data security policies and practices, including but not limited to, Hyland’s Information Systems Security Policy

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience as a Platform or Cloud Architect
• Mastery in two or more general purpose programming languages
• Master-level expertise in: cloud hosting design patterns, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, multi-cloud architectures
• Solution Architect Professional or Equivalent in AWS or Azure
• Excellent software modeling skills covering information, domain, process, state, security, logical, and physical architectural views.
• Proven ability to design and oversee complex, enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence C-level stakeholders.
• Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor and provide feedback to junior architects and senior engineers
• Master level experience in understanding and application of cloud hosting design, design patterns, architecture patterns, and quality attributes.
• Proven ability developing and using original thinking to translate business goals and functional requirements into the implementation of new ideas and design solutions
• Up to 10% travel time required

What We’d Like to See

• Multi-cloud experience (AWS + Azure)
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance, and governance frameworks
• Experience with cost optimization and FinOps practices

• Published thought leadership or speaking experience on cloud architecture, * Master’s degree or equivalent experience

• Extensive experience with at least one prominent public cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Extensive experience with prominent infrastructure-as-code technology (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Experience operating software workloads in production

• Experience providing platform services for other internal teams

• Sharp, fast learner with technology curiosity and aptitude

• Experience with continuous software delivery

• Understanding of build environments and delivery pipelines

• Strong oral and written communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact with a variety of cross-functional roles with occasional executive presence

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Strong collaboration skills, applied successfully within team as well as with all levels of employees in other areas

• Strong ability to coach, mentor, and provide feedback to team members in a timely manner

Based on Individual states’ employment laws, the following details are to comply with the relevant salary posting requirements: base salary range of $161,000-189,000 and eligible for bonus and benefits.

Based on individual states’ employment laws, the following details are provided to comply with relevant salary posting requirements: base salary range of $148,000 - $170,000 per year, eligible for benefits and variable compensation. About Hyland

Hyland is the pioneer of the Content Innovation Cloud, delivering ubiquitous enterprise intelligence to organizations with solutions that unlock actionable insights and drive automation. Hyland. All rights reserved.

Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many of the Fortune 100, Hyland’s solutions create the foundation for a connected, agentic enterprise, where teams harness the power of AI to redefine how they operate and engage with those they serve. For additional information on Hyland’s platform and services, please visit Hyland.com. #HylandLife

Since 1991, it has been Hyland’s mission to help our employees, customers and partners exceed their potential with our industry-leading content services platform. Our employees exude a contagious energy and are passionate about what they do - whether it’s helping customers succeed, raising up their fellow Hylanders, or engaging in the communities where they live and work.

The #HylandLife hashtag encompasses our employee-centric culture. Our employees live our culture day in and day out by bringing their best self to work. Hyland supports them to do just that through career development resources, wellbeing programs and innovation practices. We thrive on diverse viewpoints and new ideas and believe that a positive, inclusive workplace is imperative to sustainable success.

As we’ve grown to a company of nearly 4,000 strong, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our communities. We strongly support employee initiatives and align our giving campaigns and programs to organizations that are important to them. Equal Opportunity Statement

Hyland is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all employees and applicants. Employment decisions are made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations. Information collected during the hiring process is used solely to assess qualifications, verify identity, and comply with legal requirements., Since 1991, it has been Hyland’s mission to help our employees, customers and partners exceed their potential with our industry-leading content services platform. Our employees exude a contagious energy and are passionate about what they do - whether it’s helping customers succeed, raising up their fellow Hylanders, or engaging in the communities where they live and work.

The #HylandLife hashtag encompasses our employee-centric culture. Our employees live our culture day in and day out by bringing their best self to work. Hyland supports them to do just that through career development resources, wellbeing programs and innovation practices. We thrive on diverse viewpoints and new ideas and believe that a positive, inclusive workplace is imperative to sustainable success.

As we’ve grown to a company of nearly 4,000 strong, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our communities. We strongly support employee initiatives and align our giving campaigns and programs to organizations that are important to them.