Mgr. Cloud Strategy

Job Description

Provides strategic direction for enterprise cloud adoption and planning, ensuring technology investments deliver secure, scalable and cost-effective platforms that enable long-term business growth and operational resilience

• Manage, lead, and develop a team of high-performing cloud architects and engineers fostering capability growth and continuous improvement
• Define and maintain cloud reference architectures and patterns that embed security, networking, identity, cost controls, and compliance standards.
• Develop and govern a cloud service catalog and guardrails to standardize approved services, configurations, and usage across the enterprise.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and vendor solutions to recommend adoption paths and influence platform roadmaps.
• Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering to convert reference designs into production-ready Infrastructure as Code modules and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with Cloud Operations & Observability to ensure runbooks, monitoring, and operability requirements are integrated into architecture designs.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews and governance processes to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise priorities and long-term strategy.
• Coach and enable product and engineering teams on implementing reference architectures and adopting approved modules and guardrails.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

• Bachelor’s degree in management information science, information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field
• Seven (7) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Proven expertise evaluating and recommending technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise domains including computer, storage, network, and cloud operations.
• Familiarity with vendor contract evaluation, negotiation, and management.
• Proven experience developing infrastructure standards and capacity planning models.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to guide senior leaders and infrastructure teams effectively.

Some travel required

Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams that evaluate, compare, and recommend technology platforms and tools with clear, data-driven decision frameworks. Strong experience establishing and managing architecture standards, patterns, and reusable modules (Infrastructure as Code preferred). Expertise in technology evaluation processes, including proof-of-concept design, vendor assessment, and total cost/value analysis. Excellent communication with the ability to translate complex technical decisions into business impact

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s). If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment.

Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2…