Cloud Architecture Lead
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Job Location:
Deerfield, WI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Reports to: Chief Enterprise Architect
Role Type: Senior Architecture Leadership
Location: Deerfield IL (Hybrid)
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors degree in IT Engineering or equivalent experience
- 15 years in cloud platform or enterprise architecture roles within complex environments
- Deep expertise in AWS and Azure architecture services and operating models
- Proven track record driving cloud standardization DevOps maturity and cost optimization
- Strong executive communication and influence skills
- Enterprise-first and outcome-driven mindset
- Engineering-focused leader with strong architectural judgment
- Pragmatic systems thinker balancing speed security and cost
- Trusted leader who sets standards and enables teams to execute
The Cloud Architecture Lead is the senior architecture authority accountable for shaping and governing Baxters end-to-end cloud strategy across all business domains. This role translates enterprise and domain strategies into coherent cloud architecture outcomes that deliver measurable in-year savings drive multi-year simplification and establish a secure scalable and cost-efficient cloud foundation across AWS and Azure.
The role emphasizes consistency engineering discipline and platform reuse-driving adoption of cloud-native services modern DevOps practices and high-quality code while reducing ad hoc tools bespoke solutions and workaround-based architectures.
Outcomes That Define Success- Quantifiable in-year and recurring cost savings across cloud infrastructure tooling and platforms
- Approved multi-year cloud simplification and modernization roadmaps
- Reduced architectural variance and elimination of non-standard cloud implementations
- Increased adoption of cloud-native services and reusable platform patterns
- Improved reliability security posture delivery speed and developer productivity
- Define and evolve the enterprise cloud architecture strategy across AWS and Azure
- Translate business and technology priorities into cloud target states and reference architectures
- Ensure cloud architectures support scalability resiliency security and cost optimization across domains
- Lead cross-domain alignment on cloud design principles patterns and standards
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures managed services and platform-as-a-service capabilities
- Establish standards for infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines observability and automation
- Promote high-quality secure and maintainable code through architectural guidance and patterns
- Reduce reliance on manual processes and non-standard tooling through automation and platform reuse
- Assess cloud workloads and platforms to identify consolidation modernization and retirement opportunities
- Partner with Finance Infrastructure and Domain Architects to quantify and realize cloud savings
- Reduce duplication of platforms tooling and custom-built solutions across AWS and Azure
- Embed FinOps principles and cost transparency into cloud architecture decisions
- Serve as the cloud architecture authority within enterprise governance and technology assessment forums
- Ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise security compliance and regulatory requirements
- Enable consistent cloud decision-making without slowing delivery or innovation
The Cloud Architecture Lead serves as a trusted advisor to IT leadership Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure Security and Delivery leaders enabling sustainable cloud adoption and long-term cost efficiency.
