Senior Cloud Architect
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Senior Cloud Architect modernizing secure, scalable cloud platforms for Guild Mortgage, a home-financing company. Leading Azure architecture, DevSecOps, automation, and enterprise platform engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud platform architectures
- Translate enterprise architecture strategies into solution designs, reference architectures, reusable implementation patterns, and engineering standards
- Develop technical architectures supporting cloud platform modernization and operational excellence
- Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance
- Partner with engineering teams to modernize cloud platform capabilities
- Design reusable cloud platform services, implementation patterns, and engineering frameworks
- Evaluate cloud services, technologies, and engineering approaches for scalability, resiliency, security, automation, and cost optimization
- Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives
- Design and promote Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Pipeline as Code, and Policy as Code practices
- Establish deployment templates, automation frameworks, and CI/CD implementation standards
- Improve automation, deployment reliability, configuration management, and operational efficiency
- Ensure alignment with governance, security, regulatory, compliance, and operational standards
- Incorporate identity management, networking, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness into designs
- Identify implementation risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Provide technical leadership throughout solution design, implementation, deployment, and operational support
- Mentor engineers and technical teams
- Promote knowledge sharing through documentation, technical standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, operations, SRE, security, and delivery teams
- Contribute to technology evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, architecture reviews, and platform improvement efforts
- Document architectural decisions, implementation patterns, technical standards, and operational guidance
- Provide architectural guidance, technical estimates, implementation recommendations, and risk assessments during project planning
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree directly related to the position or equivalent, preferred
- Minimum five years of experience in cloud architecture and/or development
- Minimum five years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions
- Experience architecting cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure or another enterprise public cloud provider
- Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures supporting enterprise workloads
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud platform engineering practices
- Experience designing cloud security, identity, networking, resiliency, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Experience evaluating cloud technologies and recommending implementation approaches
- Experience partnering with engineering teams to modernize cloud platforms and establish reusable engineering standards
- Experience with source control systems, Git-based workflows, and modern software development lifecycle practices
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments using GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to communicate architectural concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; ability to work in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, Wiki, collaborative cloud-based programs, and third-party software applications
- Ability to travel 5–10%
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- LTD insurance
- 401(k) with employer match
- Competitive compensation
- Pleasant work environment
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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