Cloud Architect

Overview

Location: Hybrid (Up to 3 Days Per Week Onsite) | Bloomington, MN

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire / Staff Augmentation Opportunity
Client: Trissential Client Partner Team

Are you an experienced Cloud Architect who can bridge enterprise strategy with hands-on cloud modernization? Trissential is hiring a Cloud Architect to join our client's team and help shape the future of a secure, scalable, and cost-conscious hybrid-cloud environment. This is a highly visible enterprise architecture role where you'll influence cloud strategy, governance, modernization roadmaps, and executive decision-making while helping the organization balance innovation, compliance, operational resilience, and business outcomes.

As the organization accelerates Azure adoption while maintaining critical on-premises and co-location environments, you'll provide the architectural leadership needed to establish consistency, governance, security, and long-term cloud sustainability across the enterprise.

• Influence enterprise-wide cloud strategy across infrastructure, applications, data, security, and digital platforms
• Serve as a trusted advisor to directors, vice presidents, and senior technology leaders
• Help define modernization roadmaps that impact multiple business units
• Drive Azure adoption while ensuring governance, compliance, reliability, and cost optimization remain priorities
• Build reusable architectural standards and frameworks that delivery teams can leverage across the enterprise
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, and business stakeholders in a highly strategic environment
• Shape cloud governance, Fin Ops, migration strategies, and modernization initiatives that will have lasting organizational impact

• Establish and maintain hybrid-cloud reference architectures spanning Azure, on-premises, and co-location environments
• Define enterprise standards for networking, identity, observability, resilience, workload placement, hosting, and connectivity
• Guide solution teams toward approved architecture patterns and cloud adoption best practices
• Ensure cloud architecture decisions align with business objectives, operational requirements, and long-term technology strategy

• Develop and mature cloud governance frameworks that support accountability, consistency, and cost management
• Establish tagging strategies, budget alerts, policy controls, reservations, and rightsizing practices
• Partner with finance and technology leaders to improve cloud cost transparency and investment decision-making
• Conduct total cost of ownership (TCO) evaluations and provide recommendations for optimization

• Perform architecture reviews using Azure Well-Architected Framework principles
• Identify security, reliability, integration, scalability, operational, and cost-related risks
• Develop remediation strategies and prioritized modernization recommendations
• Create architecture decision records and maintain governance documentation

• Lead the development of cloud migration and modernization roadmaps
• Assess current-state infrastructure landscapes and future-state cloud architectures
• Help rationalize applications, platforms, and infrastructure workloads for cloud readiness
• Guide migration sequencing, dependency identification, and transition planning

• Partner with enterprise architecture leadership to establish cloud strategy and standards
• Influence cloud-related investment decisions and modernization priorities
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, digital, platform, and data teams
• Present architectural recommendations to executive and governance forums
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused discussions around cost, risk, compliance, and value

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or related technical leadership roles
• Deep expertise designing and governing Azure and hybrid-cloud environments
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and operational excellence
• Experience developing enterprise cloud standards, architecture patterns, and governance frameworks
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure landing zones, cloud migration strategies, and workload modernization
• Strong architecture review experience aligned to Azure Well-Architected Framework principles
• Experience balancing business priorities, technical requirements, risk mitigation, and cost optimization
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority
• Proven success leading architectural initiatives across multiple teams and technology domains
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to executive leadership audiences

• Healthcare industry experience
• Experience supporting HIPAA and HITRUST…