Senior Director, Cloud Solutions Architecture

At Ensono our Purpose is to be a relentless ally disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:

Honesty Reliability Curiosity Collaboration and Passion.

About the role and what youll be doing:

Ensono is seeking a highly technical execution-focused Senior Director of Cloud Solutions Architecture to lead and scale our Cloud Solutions Architect (SA) team. This is a player-coach leadership role you will guide and develop a high-performing team of SAs while maintaining strong hands-on technical depth to architect and validate complex cloud migration solutions across Ensonos full cloud portfolio.

You will serve as a strategic and technical authority within the Solutions organization partnering closely with Sales Delivery and Product to drive revenue win deals and ensure technically sound differentiated cloud solution designs particularly across cloud migration managed services and cloud transformation engagements.

This role will be hybrid on the client site in Quincy MA.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead mentor and scale a team of Cloud Solutions Architects fostering a culture of technical excellence collaboration and continuous learning.

• Define SA team standards playbooks and best practices for solution design customer engagement and technical presales.

• Drive consistent quality across all SA-produced deliverables architecture diagrams SOWs TCO analyses and HLD/LLD documentation.

• Set performance goals conduct reviews and invest in career development across the SA team.

Technical Solution Design & Architecture

• Personally lead and contribute to the architecture of complex cloud migration solutions including workload categorization (Category 1/2/3) application transformation strategy IaaS/PaaS designs and multi-cloud landing zone patterns across AWS Azure and GCP.

• Oversee the design and delivery of Ensonos Cloud Activate and Cloud Migrate solutions ensuring reference architectures align with Ensonos standard service components and best practices.

• Design solutions across the full Ensono Cloud Transform Framework: Cloud Activate Cloud Migrate Cloud Optimize Cloud Operate (Fully Managed Co-Managed Self-Managed) Cloud Enable and Cloud Innovate.

• Architect and validate solutions leveraging cloud connectivity services (e.g. Azure ExpressRoute AWS Direct Connect) and managed networking patterns.

• Guide teams in applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation governance RBAC and security controls aligned to Ensonos Cloud Enable standards.

Pre-Sales & Client Engagement

• Partner with Sales and Account Management as a senior technical authority in client-facing engagements presenting complex cloud architectures migration strategies and managed service models with credibility and clarity.

• Lead and support TCO and cloud readiness assessments application migration planning and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) design discussions.

• Contribute to RFP responses proposals and SOW development ensuring technical accuracy and commercial viability.

• Represent Ensonos cloud capabilities as a thought leader with prospects clients and industry forums.

Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with the VP of Solutions cloud delivery and product teams to align solution designs with Ensonos evolving service portfolio and go-to-market strategy.

• Identify gaps in tooling process and skills; drive continuous improvement in how the SA team builds and delivers cloud solutions.

• Stay current on cloud platform innovations across AWS Azure and GCP.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. Thats why weve outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role its important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications we still encourage you to apply.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in cloud architecture solutions engineering or related technical roles with a strong foundation in public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

• 5 years in a leadership or management role overseeing solutions architects cloud engineers or technical presales teams.

• Deep hands-on technical expertise in cloud migration methodologies including Rehost Replatform Refactor Rebuild and Replace strategies.

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex cloud migration solutions for enterprise clients including workload assessments application categorization HLD/LLD documentation and migration wave planning.

• Strong understanding of cloud networking (VPC/VNet ExpressRoute Direct Connect transit architectures) security (IAM/RBAC zero trust threat detection) and hybrid cloud patterns.

• Fluency with IaC tooling (Terraform ARM CloudFormation) DevOps practices and cloud-native services (containers Kubernetes serverless PaaS).

• Experience with managed services delivery models (Fully Managed Co-Managed Self-Managed) and cloud cost optimization.

• Outstanding communication skills able to translate technical complexity into business value for both executive and technical audiences.

• Experience working in a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or consulting environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent.

• Experience with BC/DR design multi-region architectures and SLA-tier planning in complex enterprise environments.

• Familiarity with hybrid environments involving mainframe or midrange workloads alongside public cloud.

• Experience with client-facing presales motions including deal qualification solution scoping and proposal development.

Ensono is a place to make better happen for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration by learning or volunteering or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.

We are a client-facing business but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.

Some of our benefits include:

• Unlimited Paid Days Off
• Three health plan options
• 401k with company match
• Eligibility for dental vision short and long-term disability life and AD&D coverage and flexible spending accounts
• Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
• Paid childbearing and paternal leave
• Education Reimbursement Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
• Sabbatical leave
• Wellness program
• Flexible work schedule

As of the date of this posting a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $173000 to $230000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills experience internal equity and business addition to base salary other compensation programs depending on eligibility include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.

Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or other legally protected basis in accordance with applicable law.

Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCPs pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCPs website.

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