Lead Architect: Infrastructure

The Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect will serve as the senior technical leader for the Private Cloud Customers. This role is responsible for setting the technical vision, establishing architectural governance, and leading the design and industrialization of next-generation cloud infrastructure offerings.

The Lead Architect will mentor the team, act as the final authority on complex designs, and bridge technical architecture with strategic business goals.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Strategic Architecture & Governance
  • Define Architecture Strategy: Establish the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for the Private Cloud Customers, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Establish Governance: Develop and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices across all cloud infrastructure projects to ensure security, compliance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Technology Evaluation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and industrialization of new core cloud technologies (e.g., hardware, networking, virtualization, and emerging services like GenAI components).
• Technical Solution Leadership
  • Complex Solution Design: Serve as the final design authority for the most complex, high-value cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers.
  • End-to-End Platform Design: Oversee the architecture and integration of foundational cloud components, including VMware technology (vSphere, NSX-T), open source solutions, Cisco IP fabric, and multi-vendor hardware (HP, Cisco, storage, backup).
  • Product Industrialization: Drive the end-to-end industrialization lifecycle for new cloud services, including defining technical specifications, creating service catalogs, and integrating automation, billing, and monitoring systems.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship
  • Technical Mentorship: Provide guidance, coaching, and technical direction to junior and mid-level architects and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary technical interface between the Architecture team and Product Management, Operations, Security, and Sales to ensure seamless service delivery.

About you:

• Technical skills related to IT infrastructures and cloud domain (private, hybrid cloud).
• Capability to transform business requirement into cloud architecture across all domains like compute, storage, backup, and network.
• Engage and partner with customers at a detailed technical, operational, and compliance level.
• Foresee and anticipate potential risk exposure at an operational and technical level.
• Produce technical specifications which provide high value and efficiency throughout full life cycle.
• Wide and significant expertise allowing understanding of technology across silos.
• Identify and develop key partner and vendor relationships as required to deliver fully integrated solutions.
• Fluent in English language. Knowledge of French language will be beneficial.
• Translate business requirements into technical architectures and design specifications.
• Strong technical knowledge in cloud domain: VMware, open source, networks and security, and design principles.
• Convert customer requirements into actionable architecture.
• You bring a can-do attitude, tackle challenges head-on, and challenge the status quo with new and innovative ideas.

Skills

Cloud, Infrastructure, NSX-T, VMware, VSphere