Cloud Architect

About Us
At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster.
We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment.
We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.

The Role
Reporting to the Director, Architecture, Distinguished Architect, this role is part of Seequent’s Global Architecture Team and is responsible for refining, communicating, and implementing the cloud architecture strategy across Seequent’s portfolio. The role partners with Product, Engineering, technical leaders, cloud providers, vendors, customers, and partners to align implementations with architectural direction and promote technical convergence.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Refine, communicate, and help implement Seequent’s cloud architecture roadmap and strategy across the product portfolio.

Partner with Product and Engineering teams to align implementations with architectural direction and drive architectural and technical convergence.

Recommend architectural patterns and technology selections that support the Global Architecture Team’s strategic vision.

Evaluate team architectures and APIs for alignment with Seequent’s vision, including trade-offs across architectural patterns and styles.

Assess new and updated “paved path” technologies, identify gaps, and trial emerging options with cloud providers and technology vendors.

Define, document, and promote critical non-functional requirements, proposing updates in line with modern best practices.

Communicate complex architectural concepts and the rationale for decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders across Seequent and Bentley Systems.

Represent Seequent in platform integration and product or solution discussions with Bentley teams, key customers, and partners.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

7+ years’ experience in software development, building SaaS software in a cloud and Infrastructure as Code environment.

2+ years’ experience as an architect, or equivalent, for a large-scale SaaS provider or cloud hyperscaler.

Proven problem-solving and lateral-thinking capability at platform or system architecture level.

Experience improving scalability, availability, and performance in cloud environments.

Experience developing, documenting, and communicating an architectural strategy for a significant global, cloud-based SaaS solution.

Ability to evaluate modern cloud architectures, technologies, APIs, and best practices for use across a product portfolio.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience collaborating remotely across teams, countries, time zones, and organisational boundaries.

Additional Information
Hybrid work from the local office 2 days a week and home-based the remainder of the week.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
At Seequent, we champion the uniqueness of each individual.

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