Cloud Architect Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026. NTT DATA scores A on the Alion truth index.
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Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect Lead to lead our Cloud Solution Architecture capability and support the growth of our Cloud & Security business in Thailand.
The role will combine technical leadership, cloud solution architecture, presales engagement, customer advisory, and team leadership. The successful candidate will lead a team of Cloud and Technical Architects, working closely with sales, delivery, managed services, security, and technology partners to design secure, scalable, resilient, and commercially viable cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Cloud Architects and Technical Architects, providing technical direction, coaching, architecture governance, and support on complex customer opportunities.
- Own the end-to-end cloud solution architecture for strategic and enterprise customer opportunities.
- Work closely with Sales and GTM teams during the presales lifecycle, including customer discovery, technical workshops, solution development, proposal preparation, presentations, and technical clarification.
- Design public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP.
- Translate customer business requirements into practical cloud architecture, migration, modernization, security, networking, resilience, and operating-model solutions.
- Lead architecture reviews and ensure solutions follow cloud architecture best practices covering security, availability, performance, scalability, operational excellence, and cost optimization.
- Provide technical leadership for cloud migration and transformation initiatives, including application migration, infrastructure modernization, landing zones, containers, automation, and cloud-native services.
- Partner with Security, Network, Managed Services, Application, Data & AI, and other technical teams to develop integrated solutions.
- Support solution costing, effort estimation, BOM development, commercials, and Statements of Work together with relevant business and delivery teams.
- Establish reusable reference architectures, solution standards, design patterns, and architecture governance to improve solution quality and speed-to-market.
- Build strong technical relationships with strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Act as a trusted technology advisor to enterprise customers and senior stakeholders, explaining complex architecture topics in clear business terms.
- Stay current with developments in cloud platforms, Generative AI, automation, containers, FinOps, security, and emerging infrastructure technologies.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Ideally 10+ years of IT infrastructure/cloud experience, including significant experience in solution architecture, cloud architecture, consulting, or presales.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical architects or senior engineering/solution teams.
- Strong hands-on architecture knowledge in at least one major cloud platform, with broad understanding across: Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, networking, identity, security, backup/DR, observability, and cloud operations.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud migration and modernization solutions.
- Good understanding of containers/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps/CI-CD, automation, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience engaging directly with enterprise customers at technical and senior-management levels.
- Strong presentation, consulting, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Experience supporting complex RFP/RFI and presales opportunities is highly preferred.
Preferred Certifications
One or more advanced certifications would be advantageous:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Relevant Kubernetes, security, networking, or FinOps certifications
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