The Role
Lead the enterprise cloud architecture and strategy, focusing on GCP and AWS, while ensuring governance, security, and team development.
Summary Generated by Built In
Strategic Leadership & Vision
Executive Consulting:
Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams,customer executive, and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmap into clear business value and risk assessments.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy:
Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on GCP services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Pref AWS).
Architecture Governance: Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments.
DevOps & Cost Strategy:
Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models. Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, negotiate large enterprise cloud contracts, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint.
Core Technical Responsibilities
- GCP Deep Expertise: Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on GCP, with hands-on experience in leveraging services like GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner.
- Interoperability Design: Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management (IAM) across platforms (e.g.,using federated identity or centralized key management).
- Advanced Security: Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent Indian regulatory (e.g., data residency) and global compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Innovation & PoCs: Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock), serverless computing, and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape.
- Cloud Migration: experience in Cloud migration strategy and implementation
- Observability: Architect a comprehensive visibility strategy to monitor system health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud environments.
- Policy Definition: Design automated governance guardrails that ensure every deployment is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized by default.
People Leadership & Mentorship
- Team Development: Mentor, coach, and grow a team of Senior/Lead Cloud Architects and engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Process Improvement: Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with the Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals.
Required Qualifications
- Experience:15+ years of progressive experience in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations.
Cloud Platform Mastery:
- GCP: Mastery of GCP services, networking, and security. Primary Cloud skill
- Second Cloud: Deep architectural experience in AWS (e.g., EC2,Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS)
Certifications (Preferred ):
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (Preferred)
- Professional/Expert-level Certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).
Technical Stack:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (including multi-cloud modules)
- At least one programming language ( Java/Python)
Top Skills
AWS
BigQuery
Cloud Dataflow
Cloud Run
Cloud Spanner
DevOps
GCP
Gke
Java
Python
Terraform
Vertex Ai
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The Company
What We Do
Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm partnering with leading Chicagoland companies to launch, scale, and modernize industry-changing technologies. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary.
Our mission is to be an enabler of amazing possibilities for companies looking to use the power of cloud and data. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with clients, as true technology partners, and make sure they succeed at what they have set out to do. We want to be disruptors, game-changers, and innovators who have played an important part in moving the world forward.
