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This role will define the cloud infrastructure strategy, architecture standards, security and resiliency patterns, and delivery roadmap needed to operate mission-critical loan platform capabilities in a secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-conscious manner.\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on architecture leader who can translate business and regulatory needs into practical infrastructure designs, and guide engineering teams from initial platform decisions through implementation and ongoing operations. Success requires deep cloud infrastructure expertise, strong technical judgment, disciplined governance, and the ability to communicate clearly with executives, clients, security teams, application leaders, and engineers.\nABOUT THE COMPANY\nThoriva is an AI technology company delivering intelligent, data-driven solutions to transform government operations. We combine AI solutions, commercial expertise, and complex business logic to address government and federal agencies’ biggest challenges.\nJOB SUMMARY\nAs the Infrastructure Cloud Architect, you will serve as the lead architect for a new cloud environment supporting Thoriva Loan Platforms. You will lead the effort to establish the target-state architecture, reference patterns, engineering standards, and technical guardrails for cloud infrastructure. Areas of focus will include networking, identity management, cybersecurity controls, data protection, observability, automation, continuity, and platform operations. You will partner with application, security, operations, data, and delivery teams to create an environment that supports modernization while protecting the reliability and regulatory obligations of mission-critical loan servicing platforms.\nYou will evaluate technology options, document decisions and tradeoffs, lead design reviews, guide implementation teams, and ensure the resulting environment is supportable, auditable, resilient, and prepared for future growth.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the architecture and design of a new cloud-based infrastructure environment supporting Thoriva Loan Platforms, including production and non-production environments, shared services, management, and recovery capabilities.\n\nDefine target-state architecture, cloud landing-zone principles, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical standards that can be implemented across appropriate cloud providers.\n\nDesign and guide the implementation of secure and scalable capabilities for compute, storage, networking, connectivity, identity and access management, secrets and key management, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and platform administration.\n\nEstablish infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, policy-as-code, automated provisioning, and continuous integration and delivery practices in partnership with engineering and DevSecOps teams.\n\nLead architecture decisions and design reviews; document assumptions, options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, non-functional requirements, and approved technical decisions.\n\nTranslate business, client, contractual, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into practical cloud infrastructure controls and implementation guidance.\n\nPartner with cybersecurity and risk teams to embed least privilege, defense in depth, encryption, segmentation, vulnerability management, secure configuration, continuous monitoring, and auditable controls into the platform architecture.\n\nDefine availability, 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