Sr. Cloud Architect
San Antonio, TX, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago

Y & L Consulting Inc.
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Job Details
Skills
- .NET
- A/B Testing
- Automated Testing
- Back Office
- Business Strategy
- Clarity
- Cloud Computing
- API
- ARIS
- ARM
- Analytical Skill
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Budget
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Confluence
- Continuous Delivery
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Dashboard
- Data Validation
- Design Patterns
- Continuous Improvement
- Continuous Integration
- Cost Management
- Customer Experience
- Software Performance Management
- Solution Architecture
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Product Engineering
- React Native
- Regulatory Compliance
- Payment Processing
- Modeling
- Node.js
- Optimization
- Order Management
- Management
- Identity Management
- Microservices
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Visio
- IaaS
- Enterprise Architecture
- JIRA
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Grafana
- GraphQL
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Documentation
- Emerging Technologies
- Facilitation
- GitHub
- Performance Tuning
- Privacy
- Process Mapping
- Provisioning
- Research
- Roadmaps
- IT Management
- Industry-specific
- Innovation
- Messaging
- POSTMAN
- Point Of Sale
- SAN
- SQL
- SaaS
- Scalability
- Software Design
- TOGAF
- Terraform
- Use Cases
- Web Analytics
- DevOps
Summary
Enterprise Digital & Cloud Architect
Job Description
Role Summary
The Enterprise Digital & Cloud Architect translates business strategy into scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and resilient solutions across digital platforms and cloud infrastructure. This role combines expertise in digital solution architecture with deep knowledge of cloud technologies (primarily Microsoft Azure) to define patterns, standards, and governance for enterprise-wide initiatives. The architect partners with product, engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes across customer experience, operations, and growth initiatives while optimizing cloud cost and performance.
Core Responsibilities
Architecture Design & Governance
Translate business objectives into holistic solution architectures that span digital platforms and cloud infrastructure.
Define and enforce architecture guardrails, design patterns, and standards for both application and cloud environments.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, roadmaps, and reference architectures.
Identify and document gaps, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies early in the lifecycle.
Establish governance for resource provisioning, tagging, and cost management.
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Lead end-to-end solution design across frontend, backend, integration, data, and cloud infrastructure for the digital platform.
Guide teams through architecture reviews, technical evaluations, and implementation choices for digital and cloud-native solutions.
Drive adoption of cloud-native services and modern digital architecture patterns (microservices, BFF, event-driven, serverless).
Promote engineering excellence through DevOps/SRE practices (CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, APM, feature flags, A/B testing).
Cloud Strategy, Cost Optimization & Standards
- Develop and maintain cost models, budgets, and optimization strategies for Azure services.
- Implement FinOps practices to monitor and control cloud spend while maximizing business value.
- Define standards for scalability, performance, and resilience in cloud deployments.
- Ensure cloud architectures support disaster recovery, high availability, and compliance requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements
Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to elicit, refine, and document requirements and success criteria.
Facilitate crossfunctional working sessions with designers, engineers, and business SMEs to derisk ambiguoproblematic requirements.
Communicate complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences with clarity and actionable recommendations.
Research Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Assess emerging technologies, frameworks, and methodologies; provide strategic recommendations aligned to enterprise goals.
Bring hands-on experience in evaluating and implementing third-party SaaS solutions to accelerate digital transformation initiatives
Maintain and enhance architecture documentation in approved repositories for transparency and reuse.
Drive continuous improvement of architecture standards and actively contribute to the technology roadmap.
Security, Compliance & Quality
Embed security-by-design principles, identity and access management, data privacy, and compliance requirements within all architectures.
Ensure solutions meet availability, performance, and observability of SLAs/SLOs with appropriate metrics and dashboards.
Industry-Specific (QSR)
Apply domain expertise across POS, Back Office Operations, Kitchen Management, Payment Processing, Order Management, and MarTech (loyalty, CRM, CDP, customer segmentation, web analytics) to architect integrated customer and store solutions.
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
Architecture frameworks & practices: TOGAF (or equivalent), architecture modeling, reference architectures.
Cloud & infrastructure: Microsoft Azure (compute, storage, networking, security), microservices, BFF patterns, eventdriven architecture.
Application & integration: .NET, Node.js, React Native; REST/GraphQL API design; messaging; integration patterns.
Data & Analytics: SQL and data validation; familiarity with AI/ML use cases and responsible AI considerations.
Observability & Quality: APM, logging, monitoring, automated testing, performance tuning.
Business & Analytical Skills
Proven ability to decompose complex problems, identify edge cases and negative scenarios, and recommend pragmatic solutions.
Experience translating business strategy into clear architecture requirements and measurable outcomes.
Strong analytical skills to identify cost drivers, optimize resource utilization, and recommend pragmatic solutions.
Collaboration & Communication
Strong facilitation and interpersonal skills; adept at building consensus across product, engineering, design, and business teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Tools & Platforms
Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, ARM Templates, Terraform
Architecture & Modeling: LeanIX, LucidCharts/Visio, ARIS Business Process Mapping
Delivery & Collaboration: Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
API & Data Validation: Postman, SQL
Monitoring & Cost Management: DataDog, App Insights, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Azure Cost Management
- Dice Id: ylcon
- Position Id: 8856764
- Posted 9 hours ago
Company Info
About Y & L Consulting Inc.
Y&L Consulting is a provider of the highest-caliber local and international IT professionals, positioned to help you maximize profitability and growth.
As a global corporation with local presence and sensitivity, Y&L offers IT services and support primarily to medium and large companies. Knowledgeable and proficient in all primary technologies, we customize programs to fit your current business needs while maintaining the flexibility to ramp up or down as your situations change. By avoiding stringent service provider contracts and rigid methodologies, you enjoy flexible capabilities, local relationships, international resources, and significant cost savings.
IT Consulting San Antonio Expertise
Design, architecture, development, and maintenance of custom applications using ATG, MS, .NET, Java/J2EE, and other popular technologies
Implementation, upgrade, and maintenance for packaged application solutions SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Apps, Cognos, and Actuate
Quality Assurance and Testing Services Mercury partner
Programmers and Database Administrators
In addition, we have a number of highly-qualified Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Technical Writers on our bench.
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