Lead Cloud Solutions Architect — Hybrid, Strategic Impact

Gratitude Philippines; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 1,562,000 - 1,618,000; Full time

Job summary

Gratitude Philippines is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect in Makati who will steer architecture across cloud platforms, automation, and enterprise systems. The role requires a hands-on engineering background, leadership across DevOps and security teams, and the ability to deliver scalable, secure solutions aligned with business priorities.

The ideal candidate will design blueprints, drive implementation roadmaps, and collaborate with software, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in cloud engineering, software development, infrastructure, or related disciplines.
• Experience designing or guiding complex technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud services, application architecture, and automation.
• Hands-on engineering experience enabling credible technical discussions with delivery teams.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, APIs, scripting, and deployment practices.
• Knowledge of security, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and production operations.
• Ability to assess technical alternatives and develop practical implementation strategies.
• Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-enabled and enterprise technology solutions that meet business and operational requirements.
• Develop solution blueprints, reference architectures, technical specifications, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assess cloud, platform, infrastructure, and application architecture options.
• Evaluate security, scalability, availability, cost, performance, and maintainability considerations.
• Conduct technical discovery sessions, design reviews, proofs of concept, and architecture assessments.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate designs into implementable solutions.
• Guide teams on CI/CD practices, automation, and modern software delivery approaches.
• Promote reusable components, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Explain architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture documentation and align delivery priorities.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Architecture design

CI/CD pipelines

Security & reliability

Stakeholder management

Python

PowerShell

Go

C

REST APIs

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Jenkins

REST APIs

JSON

YAML

Job description

Gratitude Philippines is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect in Makati who will steer architecture across cloud platforms, automation, and enterprise systems. The role requires a hands-on engineering background, leadership across DevOps and security teams, and the ability to deliver scalable, secure solutions aligned with business priorities.

The ideal candidate will design blueprints, drive implementation roadmaps, and collaborate with software, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure