Solution Architect - Cloud Engineering

About the role

The Cloud Engineering Architect serves as a technical and strategic leader responsible for designing modern, cloud-enabled architecture in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role partners closely with business and IT organizations to drive modernization across RMIC systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud architecture for RMIC systems, including pricing, rating, invoicing, billing integrity, and settlement workflows.
• Develop cloud modernization roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture strategy.
• Define cloud patterns, standards, and reference architectures that support high-volume financial and transactional workloads.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native engineering practices.
• Evaluate current-state RMIC platforms, identify modernization opportunities, and design future-state architectures.
• Partner with business stakeholders, ARTs, and development teams to ensure architectural alignment across highly interdependent systems.
• Define and enforce cloud governance, including security controls, observability, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Mentor solution architects and engineering teams on cloud architecture patterns and platform engineering practices.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts and recommendations to technical and non-technical executive audiences.
• Exposes current state architecture and identifies options for future state architecture.
• Works closely with business and IT stakeholders creating solutions that balance competing interests and concerns.
• Develops plans for and facilitates the migration from current to selected future state by providing technical leadership to multiple initiatives.
• Mentor those in less senior positions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing cloud architectures in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Design end-to-end cloud architectures that are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise strategy
• Evaluate cloud applications, hardware, software and recommend best-fit solutions
• Apply modern architectural patterns across cloud and hybrid solutions
• Strong understanding of cloud security, data privacy, encryption, and compliance
• Experience architecting systems with high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery
• Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Human relations
• Communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Lead major cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Experience designing resilient, scalable, cloud-modern architectures in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Familiarity with enterprise tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience working in SAFe or large-scale agile environments

Additional Desired Skills

• Ability to influence architectural direction across matrixed business and IT organizations
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience presenting to senior leaders and executive stakeholders
• Comfort navigating high-complexity environments with multiple dependencies