Sr. Cloud Architect

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