Job Overview

As Senior Cloud Architect responsible for the Cloud Migration initiative, you will be an integral member of the AvidXchange technology team, leading the architectural strategy and design for the effort to migrate IaaS-hosted workloads and products to the cloud while optimizing them where possible. In addition to the direct report through Technical Platform Engineering, this role will also have matrixed reporting to the VP of Architecture. This role will be accountable for partnering with other key roles for the initiative, which include Executives, Senior Leaders, Product Owners, Product Managers, Solution and Enterprise Architects, Engineers and other subject matter experts, to define or refine the migration strategy, approach and design for each product's path to the cloud. This role will require a very hands-on and technical approach working directly with other Architects, Product Owners, and Engineers to jointly design, educate, advise and even co-construct portions of

the Cloud Migration deliverables. Previous experience in leading Azure Cloud Migrations, Application Modernization, and/or Cloud Transformation efforts is required for success in this role.

As a Senior Cloud Architect, your key responsibilities will be to:
• Lead the Architectural strategy and design for all Cloud Migration efforts for all legacy products
• Build PoCs, develop or provide code samples, patterns, etc for migration patterns, infrastructure as code and automated deployments as needed to aid in Engineering teams' understanding of automated infrastructure deployments and coding practices and app modernization
• Contribute to building roadmaps for each Product's Cloud Migration and contribute

to the Product Transformation backlogs that get executed by Engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to ensure priority, order of execution details, and technical details of the features for Cloud Migration are fully understood and will lead to accurate delivery and execution
• Collect information from different sources and integrate information to find creative technical solutions that meet business needs.
• Analyze necessary functionality / features to figure out appropriate technologies (recommending new technologies as appropriate).
• Perform architecture reviews and assessments while working with business, technical or product teams to improve their existing solutions.
• Figure out development / implementation / business efforts in terms of duration, cost, and scope.
• Build, present, and document comprehensive architecture designs in a concise, yet thorough manner.
• Mentor and coach engineers; leading by example, providing hands-on technical

expertise, helping foster creativity, and modeling AvidXchange's core values.
• Investigate new solution compatibility with the existing environments
• Collaborate with other Architects and Technical Leads to ensure consistency across teams and improve technology reuse.
• Define high level architecture, standard methodologies, and guidelines that balance short-term and long-term objectives in a practical manner
• Support Enterprise Architects in the establishment and adoption of company technology standards.
• Develop strategies for risk mitigation, including risks associated with unstable or un- scalable requirements.
• Lead Joint Architecture Design sessions to collaboratively design solutions
• Present solutions to the Architecture Review Board for review and approval
• Develop, define and contribute to Infrastructure Standards
• Build roadmaps for technical capabilities and contribute to technical capability backlogs that get executed by Engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to ensure execution of work aligns to roadmap and vision
• Frequently interact with internal customers of technical capabilities to gain insight

and tailor technical capability roadmaps to meet the customers' needs
• Lead adoption efforts and track adoption rates of technical capabilities
• Track customer satisfaction for technical capabilities and adjust roadmap as necessary to serve internal customers to the highest level

Experience, Qualification, Skills

Required Experience, Qualification, Skills
• Experience leading Azure-specific Cloud Migrations, Application Modernization, and/or Cloud Transformation initiatives
• Experience writing infrastructure and configuration as code and building automated deployments with Infrastructure as Code on Azure technologies to aid in migrations to the cloud
• Experience and comfort with creating and refining business cases, roadmaps and influencing teams with data
• Bachelor's degree required and 10 + years of relevant engineering (including at least

5 years of experience with architecture)
• Strong working knowledge of most relevant systems and platforms, and expertise in at least 1 primary technology
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum / Kanban)
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Web and Public Cloud architectures
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Azure-based Cloud architectures
• Knowledge and skills with DevOps methodologies and technologies
• Ability to apply models, tools and methods
• Ability to design and develop solutions
• Ability to integrate solutions
• Ability to design modular architectures, platform thinking, domain-driven design
• Relevant certifications (including Public Cloud Architecture certifications for Microsoft Azure or similar)

Other details

• Job Family Software Engineering
• Job Function Software Architecture Engineering
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Professional