Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement

Solution Architect
- Cloud Enablement

Off-Site (O) - Bronx, NY 10451

Position Type Full Time Category Salary Exempt

Solution Architect
- Cloud Enablement

Full Time, Exempt Position

Remote

If you are a forward-thinking technology professional interested in cloud architecture, enterprise integration, and digital transformation, we invite you to explore this opportunity! We are seeking a pragmatic and collaborative Solution Architect
- Cloud Enablement to join the Vantage Elevation technology team.

You will play a key role in designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions that advance our cloud and digital transformation strategy while connecting business needs with enterprise applications, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and external technology partners.

Vantage Elevation, LLC is an independent, industry-leading manufacturer of elevator components and systems with a long history of innovation and reliability. Founded in 1899, Vantage employs more than 1,000 people across manufacturing sites and offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Through its family of brands, GAL Manufacturing, GAL Canada, Hollister-Whitney, Elevator Controls, Courion, Bore-Max, Thames Valley Controls, and Vertical Dimensions, Vantage supports nearly every electro-mechanical device used in modern elevators.

Vantage's mission is to safely connect people and communities by providing reliable elevator solutions. We support our teams, work closely with our customers, and hold ourselves to a high standard of quality, safety, and service.

Position Summary

The Solution Architect
- Cloud Enablement is responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions. This role translates business and technical requirements into practical solution designs, establishes cloud architecture standards, and helps ensure that new and existing technologies integrate effectively across the enterprise.

The successful candidate will combine strong cloud architecture expertise with a practical understanding of legacy systems, enterprise applications, data platforms, integration, security, and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture and Enablement
• Develop cloud solution architectures aligned with the company's business strategy, technology roadmap, security requirements, and financial objectives.
• Design secure and scalable cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises solutions.
• Establish reusable cloud architecture patterns, reference designs, standards, and implementation guardrails.
• Evaluate workloads and recommend appropriate migration approaches, including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, replacing, retaining, or retiring applications.
• Support cloud landing zones, network architecture, identity and access management, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and governance capabilities.
• Promote the effective use of cloud-native services, automation, infrastructure as code, containers, APIs, and managed services where appropriate.
• Solution Design and Integration
• Translate business, application, data, infrastructure, and security requirements into comprehensive solution designs.
• Develop architecture diagrams, data flows, integration patterns, interface specifications, deployment models, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ensure cloud solutions integrate effectively with ERP, CPQ, CRM, manufacturing, financial, data, analytics, and other enterprise platforms.
• Define integration approaches using APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, batch processing, and other appropriate technologies.
• Identify architectural dependencies, technical constraints, implementation risks, and required remediation activities.
• Ensure solutions are supportable, maintainable, resilient, and appropriately documented.
• Data and Analytics Enablement
• Partner with data and analytics teams to design cloud-based data platforms, data pipelines, data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, and business intelligence environments.
• Support the secure movement of data between on-premises applications and cloud platforms.
• Help define architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic models, reporting, advanced analytics, and AI use cases.
• Ensure data solutions address security, lineage, data quality, retention, scalability, and governance requirements.
• Support the integration of operational and financial data across multiple enterprise systems.
• Security, Governance, and Risk Management
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and risk-management requirements into solution designs.
• Apply secure-by-design principles across identity, network, application, infrastructure, and data architecture.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to define appropriate controls for access, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards and cloud governance policies.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technology…