Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Job Description Summary ‎  The Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Architect is a strategic senior technology expert responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise-scale infrastructure across both on-premises data center environments and Microsoft Azure in a highly available, secure, multi-tenant environment. Microsoft Azure is the organization’s primary cloud platform and the principal focus of this role; the Architect is also expected to maintain working knowledge of other major public cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud) to support acquired environments, evaluate workload placement, and advise on multi-cloud implications. This role owns the hybrid architecture that connects existing server, storage, virtualization, and identity platforms to the cloud, serves as a key member of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), leads infrastructure strategy for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration initiatives, and defines reference architectures that enable engineering and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions. The Architect partners closely with Security, Engineering, Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Application Teams, and Business Leadership to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, operational excellence principles, and business objectives. This individual combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills, serving as both a trusted technical advisor and a mentor to engineering teams while effectively communicating complex technology concepts to executive stakeholders. ‎  How will you make an impact & Requirements ‎  Job Description Summary ‎ The Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Architect is a strategic senior technology expert responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise-scale infrastructure across both on-premises data center environments and Microsoft Azure in a highly available, secure, multi-tenant environment. Microsoft Azure is the organization’s primary cloud platform and the principal focus of this role; the Architect is also expected to maintain working knowledge of other major public cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud) to support acquired environments, evaluate workload placement, and advise on multi-cloud implications. This role owns the hybrid architecture that connects existing server, storage, virtualization, and identity platforms to the cloud, serves as a key member of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), leads infrastructure strategy for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration initiatives, and defines reference architectures that enable engineering and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions. The Architect partners closely with Security, Engineering, Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Application Teams, and Business Leadership to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, operational excellence principles, and business objectives. This individual combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills, serving as both a trusted technical advisor and a mentor to engineering teams while effectively communicating complex technology concepts to executive stakeholders. ‎  How will you make an impact & Requirements? ‎  Job Responsibilities Cloud Strategy & Architecture Design and maintain enterprise Azure cloud architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks. Develop and maintain Azure reference architecture that can built by engineering teams and operationalized by support organizations. Evaluate emerging Azure technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives. Ensure architectural alignment with enterprise standards for scalability, availability, resiliency, security, and cost optimization. Define cloud landing zones, subscription strategies, management group hierarchies, and governance models. Lead architecture reviews and approvals through participation in the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Serve as the technical authority for infrastructure-related architectural decisions. Define hybrid architecture standards governing how on-premises data center, colocation, and Azure environments interoperate — including connectivity, identity, data placement, and workload placement decision criteria. Maintain working knowledge of other major public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud) and provide comparative guidance on service equivalency, workload placement, portability, and cost when multi-cloud scenarios arise. Mergers & Acquisitions Lead cloud infrastructure due diligence activities during acquisitions. Design integration and migration strategies for acquired organizations. Develop Azure tenant integration, migration, and coexistence architectures. Define cloud onboarding frameworks that accelerate M&A integration efforts. Assess inherited cloud environments — including AWS and Google Cloud workloads acquired through M&A — and establish remediation, consolidation, and modernization roadmaps. Lead infrastructure consolidation and rationalization initiatives. Assess acquired on-premises environments — data centers, servers, storage, virtualization, Active Directory, and backup — and define the migration path to the target hybrid or cloud state. Azure Infrastructure Architecture Design enterprise solutions across: Azure Compute Azure Networking Azure Storage Azure Identity Services Azure Security Services Azure Monitoring and Observability Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery Azure Governance Design highly available and fault-tolerant architecture utilizing: Availability Zones Regional Redundancy Disaster Recovery Strategies Multi-region architecture Business Continuity Planning On-Premises & Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture Design and govern on-premises infrastructure architectur