Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

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Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Location: Madison, WI

Type: Permanent

Category: Architecture

Industry: Government

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Date Posted: 01/26/2026

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The organization is an independent state agency managing the assets of major public funds, including a large retirement system, a state investment fund, and other trust funds. As of the most recent reported period, the organization managed over $143 billion in assets and operates with a mandate to deliver strong, risk-aware investment performance in the public interest.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis.

Salary: $145,000 - $155,000/yr.

• Act as lead architect for large-scale strategic programs, providing end-to-end solution oversight from concept through implementation.
• Partner with business, data, and engineering leaders to ensure aligned, secure, and scalable solutions.
• Review and validate architecture and design documents to ensure compliance with standards and objectives.
• Design and guide resilient multi-region cloud architectures and cloud platform strategies.
• Contribute code for microservices, infrastructure as code templates, automation scripts, and platform accelerators.
• Drive platform adoption and modernization of legacy systems.
• Mentor engineers, architects, and technical leads on design practices and emerging technologies.
• Align agile, iterative delivery with long-term architectural integrity.
• Guide platform choices, integration patterns, and implementation strategies across teams.
• Develop architectural blueprints and roadmaps aligned to investment strategies and modernization goals.
• Conduct architecture reviews focused on sound cloud principles for enterprise initiatives including platform rationalization, infrastructure modernization, and data architecture improvements.
• Govern architecture tools, standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
• Promote reference architectures and comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks across the technology organization.
• Advise on architecture governance, investment prioritization, and technology portfolio planning.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, ideally in investment management or financial services.
• Proven ability to translate long-term strategy into actionable architectures across business, technology, data, and application domains.
• Expertise in microservices, API-first design, event-driven systems, and zero-trust security.
• Experience designing resilient multi-region cloud architectures and leading platform strategy and adoption.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and building platform accelerators.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes, and hybrid or multi-cloud deployments.
• Exposure to real-time data processing, messaging systems such as Kafka or Rabbit
  
  MQ, or event sourcing architectures.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture platforms and modeling tools such as Bizz Design, Open Search, or Archi Mate.
• Strong verbal and visual communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align across functions and leadership levels in a collaborative environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (certification).
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (certification).
• Archi Mate certification preferred.

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