Cloud Architect

Fis QA; Qatar; On-site; QAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Fis QA is seeking a Cloud Architect to define secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures. You will establish standards and roadmaps, lead architecture decisions, and provide guidance across application, data, integration, platform, and operating-model requirements.

Requirements include 7+ years in cloud or enterprise architecture, fluency in English, and hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud, infrastructure, solution, or enterprise architecture with senior design responsibility.
• Fluency in English is mandatory; Arabic desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud and hybrid-cloud reference architectures, landing-zone standards, design patterns, guardrails, and roadmaps.
• Lead architecture for complex cloud migrations and workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, or approved providers.
• Ensure designs for resilience, performance, identity, network, observability, data protection, and cost management.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Executive communication

Governance

Leadership

Cost management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Postgraduate study advantageous

TOGAF certification (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

About The Role

The Cloud Architect defines and assures secure, scalable, cost-aware cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures for Fusion Integrated Solutions. The role establishes standards and roadmaps, leads architecture decisions, and provides authoritative guidance across application, data, integration, platform, and operating-model requirements

Responsibilities

• Define cloud and hybrid-cloud reference architectures, landing-zone standards, design patterns, guardrails, and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture for complex cloud migrations, modernisation, integration, data, platform, and application workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, or approved providers.
• Assure designs for resilience, availability, performance, identity, network connectivity, observability, data protection, and cost management.
• Set and maintain architecture governance, technical standards, decision records, reusable templates, and design-review practices.
• Advise senior stakeholders on cloud strategy, investment priorities, delivery risk, operating-model impacts, and technology trade-offs.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, development, data, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are practical, supportable, and aligned with business outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and architects; support major programmes and critical technical escalations..

Candidate Attributes

• Broad cloud architecture expertise with practical awareness of delivery and operations.
• Ability to communicate complex architecture choices to executive and technical audiences.
• Strong governance, influence, risk management, and cross-functional leadership.
• Outcome-focused approach to scalability, reliability, cost, and service quality.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline; postgraduate study is advantageous.
• 7+ years in cloud, infrastructure, solution, or enterprise architecture, including senior design responsibility.
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, TOGAF, Kubernetes, Terraform, or comparable professional certifications are preferred.
• Fluency in English is mandatory; Arabic is desirable..