Domain Architect – Cloud

Job Type: Full Time – Onsite
Years of Experience: 8+ years

Job Description
Define practical cloud architecture standards, patterns, and governance controls while guiding and assuring secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions.

Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on Domain Architect – Cloud to translate enterprise cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency, and operational requirements into practical architecture standards, reference patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.

You will guide product teams and vendors throughout the cloud solution lifecycle, review enterprise-scale designs, assess architectural compliance, and provide recommendations and approval inputs at defined quality gates.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency, and operational policies into clear cloud architecture standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, approved patterns, design templates, review checklists, quality-gate criteria, and architecture decision records.
• Define standards covering cloud landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Provide hands-on cloud architecture guidance during planning, sourcing, design, implementation, and operational-readiness stages.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs, and disaster-recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess cloud solutions for compliance with security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, technical debt, non-compliance, and required remediation actions.
• Promote the reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns, and infrastructure templates.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and provide recommendations on architecture fit and adoption.
• Support cloud architecture quality gates and provide domain-architecture recommendations and approval inputs.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud technologies, including cloud architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, identity and access management, containers, hosting, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Ability to identify architectural risks, compliance gaps, technical debt, and appropriate remediation measures.
• Experience guiding product teams and vendors through cloud planning, design, implementation, and readiness activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant professional-level cloud architecture certification.
• Experience working in government, regulated-sector, or large-enterprise environments.