Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures.

• Define cloud adoption roadmaps aligned to business and technology strategies.

• Evaluate cloud technologies and services to support current and future business requirements.

• Establish cloud governance frameworks, architecture patterns, and best practices.

• Design secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions.

• Provide architectural leadership across cloud transformation, application modernisation, data platforms, AI, and digital initiatives.

• Review and approve solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

• Support migration of applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premise to cloud environments.

• Ensure cloud solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and governance requirements.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement cloud security controls and monitoring.

• Define cloud identity, access management, encryption, and network security architectures.

• Support audit, compliance, and risk management activities.

• Promote cloud operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and observability.

• Drive cloud cost optimisation and Fin Ops practices.

• Establish standards for availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

• Support performance optimisation and capacity planning initiatives.

• Work closely with business leaders, product owners, engineering teams, and technology partners.

• Provide architectural guidance during planning, budgeting, and project execution.

• Present architecture strategies and recommendations to senior management and governance forums.

• Mentor solution architects, engineers, and technical teams on cloud best practices.