Senior Cloud Architect (AWS and Azure)

Description
Join global Technology & Transformation organization, a cross-functional team driving the next generation of enterprise insurance solutions. We are building and scaling a flagship multi-tenant insurance platform featuring integrated e-billing, real-time analytics, and automated claims workflows servicing thousands of global clients.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to lead, scale, and secure our multi-cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will define architecture strategy and drive cloud automation across AWS, Azure, other clouds, and hybrid on-premises environments. You will streamline enterprise deployments, enhance high availability and reliability, and automate day-to-day operations to power mission-critical financial and claims services at scale.

Requirements
8+ years in IT with 5+ years in enterprise cloud design across multi-cloud environments (Azure & AWS).
Deep knowledge of Well-Architected & Cloud Adoption Frameworks, Terraform, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders, translate business requirements into technical blueprints, and mentor technical teams.
Must have:
Multi-cloud architecture: expert-level design across Azure, AWS, including IaaS, PaaS and serverless services (GCP nice to have)
Frameworks: Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks across the major cloud providers
Landing zones and governance: account and subscription design, policy as code, RBAC, tagging standards
Networking: hub-and-spoke, transit and vWAN designs, private connectivity (ExpressRoute, Direct Connect), hybrid DNS
Identity and security: federated identity/SSO, privileged access, zero trust, cloud security posture management
Infrastructure as code and DevOps: Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar)
Resilience and cost: high availability, disaster recovery, observability, FinOps
Modernization: containerization (Kubernetes) and migration strategy
AI: Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock and/or Google Vertex AI (nice to have)
Leadership: architecture reviews, reference architectures, vendor evaluation, stakeholder engagement, mentoring
Design and architecture experience in a large enterprise environment
Job responsibilities
Architect scalable, resilient solutions across Azure and AWS (IaaS, PaaS, serverless) aligning with Well-Architected Frameworks; lead application modernization and containerization (Kubernetes).
Design enterprise account/subscription topologies, policy-as-code guardrails, strict RBAC, and tagging standards.
Oversee hub-and-spoke/vWAN topologies, hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute/Direct Connect), Zero Trust identity/SSO, and Cloud Security Posture Management.
Enforce IaC with Terraform via CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions); drive cost optimization and FinOps best practices.
Evaluate and integrate cloud AI platforms (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI).
Lead architecture review boards, author reference architectures, evaluate vendors, and mentor engineering teams.