Cloud Architect

Jodayn; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Jodayn is seeking a senior Cloud Architect to lead secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures across enterprise workloads. You will drive cloud strategy, landing zones, and modernization programs while aligning with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

The role requires guiding migration, governance, and platform services, collaborating with security, data, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8–10 years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or related disciplines.
• At least 4–5 years in Cloud Architecture or senior cloud design.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity architecture.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and govern secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Support cloud strategy, adoption, and landing zones.
• Design secure, scalable landing zones for enterprise workloads.
• Define architecture across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud.
• Develop reference architectures, standards, and guardrails.
• Assess workloads for cloud readiness and migration approaches.
• Define migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, retain.
• Design cloud networking, identity, security, logging, and operations.
• Define cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms.
• Support modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives.
• Embed security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Promote cost optimization and FinOps within architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with application, data, security, DevOps, and solution architects.

Skills

Enterprise Cloud Architecture

Cloud strategy

Landing zone design

Hybrid/multi-cloud

Migration & modernization

Cloud-native architecture

Security & compliance

Cost optimization

Resilience & DR planning

Governance & policy

FinOps

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Cloud architecture certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation / ARM / Bicep

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

Terraform/Bicep/AWS CloudFormation

Enterprise architecture tools

Job description

The Cloud Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures. The role supports cloud strategy, cloud adoption, landing zones, migration, modernization, governance, security, platform services, and integration with existing enterprise environments. The Cloud Architect ensures cloud solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles, business priorities, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational standards.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture in alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology direction.
• Define cloud strategy, cloud adoption approaches, and target-state cloud architecture.
• Design secure and scalable cloud landing zones for enterprise workloads.
• Define architecture for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
• Develop cloud reference architectures, architecture principles, patterns, guardrails, and technical standards.
• Assess application and infrastructure workloads for cloud suitability, migration approach, and modernization opportunities.
• Define cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, and retain approaches where applicable.
• Design cloud networking, connectivity, identity, access management, security, logging, monitoring, and operational architecture.
• Define architecture for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless platforms, managed services, and platform services.
• Support application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives.
• Define requirements for resilience, availability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance in cloud environments.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements into cloud architecture designs.
• Support cloud governance, subscription/account structures, resource organization, policy enforcement, and tagging standards.
• Promote cost optimization and FinOps principles within cloud architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and solution architects.
• Conduct architecture reviews and assess cloud solutions for compliance with enterprise standards.
• Support cloud platform selection, technology evaluation, vendor assessment, and proof-of-concept activities.
• Identify cloud architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation actions.

Required Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or related technology disciplines.
• At least 4-5 years of hands‑on experience in Cloud Architecture or a comparable senior cloud design role.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise‑scale cloud and hybrid‑cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity architecture.
• Experience supporting large‑scale cloud transformation or digital transformation programs.
• Strong experience working with technology teams, cybersecurity teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture
• Cloud strategy and adoption planning
• Cloud landing zone architecture
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
• Cloud migration and modernization
• Cloud-native architecture
• Cloud networking and connectivity
• Cloud identity and access architecture
• Cloud security and compliance
• Container and Kubernetes architecture
• Resilience, backup, and disaster recovery
• Cloud governance and policy management
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Architecture governance and assurance

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Google Cloud Architecture Framework
• Cloud Adoption Frameworks
• Zero Trust architecture principles
• DevOps and DevSecOps practices
• Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• Cloud security and governance best practices

Preferred Tools & Technology Exposure

• Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Cloud networking, identity, security, monitoring, logging, backup, and governance services.
• Container and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• CI/CD and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Professional-level cloud architecture certification from Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or equivalent is highly desirable.
• TOGAF certification is desirable.
• Relevant cloud security, Kubernetes, DevOps, or infrastructure certifications are advantageous.

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and systems‑thinking capability.
• Ability to translate business and technology requirements into pragmatic cloud architecture decisions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work across enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, application, data, and DevOps teams.
• Strong focus on architecture quality, security, scalability, resilience, and cost effectiveness.
• Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs and multiple stakeholders.