Cloud Architect

The Principal Domain Architect role is responsible for driving the integration of pioneering technologies in the design of highly complex technology solutions within a specific domain, while considering business goals, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability. The incumbent will provide strategic direction, training and mentoring to various stakeholders across the business in the IT-aligned business functional areas using their deep expertise in their specific domain. The role will define and lead the architecture and development of solutions aligned with the overall business and technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring business functional outcomes are achieved and the architectural runway is in place at the functional level. The incumbent will advocate and drive collaboration among stakeholders and various communities of practice to understand business needs and implement the best solutions to meet their needs, while ensuring alignment with overall IT strategy and roadmap.

• Define and drive the integration architecture designs that are aligned to the organization’s business goals (e.g., speed, reliability, scalability)
• Develop and leverage expertise in domain-driven design principals to improve upon conceptual and logical models and advocate for their organization-wide adoption in adherence to architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
• Create detailed execution plans to implement recommendations for solution designs and ensure consistency and compliance with architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
• Introduce industry differentiators to refine and support business strategies and execution models by providing insights on how updated end to end delivery capabilities can drive business goals
• Advocate and drive collaboration among various stakeholders across the business, ensuring seamless communication and alignment of architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks in a unified manner
• Using technical expertise, develop training opportunities to empower technical teams in support of the implementation of solution design
• Drive and foster strategic communications regarding technical considerations and impacts to stakeholders helping them understand implications in detail
• Maintain and leverage strong business networks to ensure ongoing alignment between business operations and IT strategy
• Proactively contribute and influence the development of the overall IT strategy and roadmap, proposing innovative solutions that drive business goals
• Propose and evaluate emerging technologies and trends to help the organization maintain a competitive advantage, driving innovation within the organization
• Create a standardized reference architecture for cloud/application deployment including: establishing standardized patterns, developing reusable components that can be applied across various projects, providing clear instructions for the application of these standardized architectures and patterns

This position is not hybrid/remote and will be located at our Cleveland Headquarters office.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or in lieu of a degree, at least 15 years of experience in IT
• 12+ years of experience in the specific domain and designing solutions
• Proven track record in designing and architecting complex systems at the functional or enterprise level
• Expertise in technology integration and the design of interfaces between systems
• Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.)
• Proven track record in working with enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture
• In-depth expertise in cloud providers and modern architectures (i.e., microservices, serverless, containerization, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge of existing and emerging enterprise architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• TOGAF Level 2, CISSP, CEAP, CSA, CSEA
• 6+ years of experience with Azure, AWS or Oracle Cloud products
• 7+ years of cloud architecture and engineering experience, including 5+ years designing enterprise-scale hybrid and/or multi-cloud architectures across two or more major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Experience should include architecture and implementation of landing zones, network connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and shared cloud services supporting multiple applications, business units, or regions.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud service enablement, Infrastructure as Code, and automation, using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable tooling. Demonstrated experience establishing reusable infrastructure patterns, automated provisioning pipelines, policy enforcement, and architectural standards across enterprise cloud environments.
• 3+ years of experience applying cloud financial management or FinOps practices in enterprise environments, including cost allocation, chargeback/showback, forecasting, optimization, and consumption governance. Experience using platforms such as Azure Cost Management, Apptio Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, or equivalent FinOps tooling, with demonstrated responsibility for identifying and driving measurable cloud cost optimization opportunities.
• 5+ years of experience designing cloud resilience, backup, and disaster recovery solutions, including multi-region or multi-zone architectures, workload replication, database protection, recovery automation, and testing that meet defined availability, performance, regulatory, and business continuity objectives.
• 5+ years serving in a technical leadership role, with demonstrated responsibility for defining cloud strategy, reference architectures, technology standards, architectural patterns, and multi-year roadmaps influencing engineering and application teams across organizational boundaries. Experience mentoring engineers in the adoption of secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud platforms aligned with business outcomes.