Lead Specialist, Cloud Architect

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a senior architect to lead telco cloud infrastructure architecture and governance. The role focuses on defining target architectures across cloud platforms, networking, and infrastructure services, while aligning with a cloud transformation strategy.

You will drive roadmap development, standards, and reference architectures, ensuring secure, scalable, and interoperable cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12–15 years of experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture or network engineering.
• Strong expertise in telco cloud architecture, including NFVi, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, including routing, switching, software-defined networking, load balancing and network integration within cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies, Kubernetes, OpenShift, ESXI, OpenStack, storage platforms and cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience developing enterprise or infrastructure architecture roadmaps and governing technical standards across multiple technology domains.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale cloud transformation, infrastructure modernisation and technology refresh programmes.
• Experience supporting vendor sourcing activities, including architecture assessment, technical evaluation and solution recommendation.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, geo-redundancy, infrastructure security and operational resilience for mission-critical telecommunications platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence architecture decisions across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical governance of telco cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain the technology architecture roadmap for telco cloud platforms.
• Define architecture standards, design principles and reference architectures.
• Ensure seamless integration between cloud platforms, IP transport networks and management systems.
• Provide architectural leadership for major infrastructure transformation programmes.
• Lead technical architecture reviews and solution governance across domains.
• Partner with planning managers for consistency across infrastructure domains.
• Drive architecture evaluations of new technologies and vendor solutions.
• Drive infrastructure simplification, standardisation and automation.
• Provide architecture guidance across engineering, operations, cybersecurity and EA teams.
• Mentor planning engineers and managers in best practices.

Skills

Telco Cloud Architecture

Cloud Platform Architecture

Cloud Networking

NFVi / Cloud-native

Infrastructure Automation

DevOps

Architecture Governance

Vendor Evaluation

Security by Design

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

ESXI

OpenStack

NFVi

Job description

About the Role

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Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical governance of the company's telco cloud infrastructure, defining the target architecture across cloud platforms, cloud networking and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain the technology architecture roadmap for telco cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with the company's network transformation strategy, cloud-native adoption and long-term business objectives.
• Define architecture standards, design principles and reference architectures covering compute, storage, virtualization, container platforms, cloud networking and infrastructure services.
• Ensure seamless integration between cloud platforms, IP transport networks, network security infrastructure and supporting management systems to deliver scalable, resilient and secure end-to-end cloud infrastructure.
• Provide architectural leadership for major infrastructure transformation programmes, including cloud platform refresh, technology modernisation and migration to cloud-native platforms.
• Lead technical architecture reviews and solution governance to ensure proposed infrastructure designs comply with architecture standards, security requirements and operational best practices.
• Partner with planning managers responsible for cloud platforms, IP transport and cybersecurity to ensure architectural consistency across infrastructure domains.
• Lead technical evaluation of new technologies and vendor solutions, providing architecture recommendations during RFP/RFQ, technology sourcing and commercial evaluation activities.
• Drive infrastructure simplification, standardisation and automation by identifying opportunities to optimise architecture, improve operational efficiency and reduce technical debt.
• Provide architecture guidance and technical consultancy to engineering, operations, cybersecurity and enterprise architecture teams throughout project delivery.
• Mentor planning engineers and managers by promoting architecture best practices and strengthening technical capability across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12–15 years of experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture or network engineering.
• Strong expertise in telco cloud architecture, including NFVi, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, including routing, switching, software-defined networking, load balancing and network integration within cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies, Kubernetes, OpenShift, ESXI, OpenStack, storage platforms and cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience developing enterprise or infrastructure architecture roadmaps and governing technical standards across multiple technology domains.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale cloud transformation, infrastructure modernisation and technology refresh programmes.
• Experience supporting vendor sourcing activities, including architecture assessment, technical evaluation and solution recommendation.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, geo-redundancy, infrastructure security and operational resilience for mission-critical telecommunications platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence architecture decisions across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and senior leadership.

Skills for Success

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12–15 years of experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture or network engineering.
• Strong expertise in telco cloud architecture, including NFVi, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, including routing, switching, software-defined networking, load balancing and network integration within cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies, Kubernetes, OpenShift, ESXI, OpenStack, storage platforms and cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience developing enterprise or infrastructure architecture roadmaps and governing technical standards across multiple technology domains.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale cloud transformation, infrastructure modernisation and technology refresh programmes.
• Experience supporting vendor sourcing activities, including architecture assessment, technical evaluation and solution recommendation.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, geo-redundancy, infrastructure security and operational resilience for mission-critical telecommunications platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence architecture decisions across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and senior leadership.

Competence in the Following Areas

• Telco Cloud Architecture
• Cloud Platform Architecture
• Cloud Networking Architecture
• NFV / Cloud-native Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Integration Architecture
• Enterprise & Solution Architecture
• Infrastructure Lifecycle & Technology Roadmap
• High Availability & Geo-Resilient Architecture
• Infrastructure Security by Design
• Technology Evaluation & Vendor Assessment
• Infrastructure Automation & DevOps
• Architecture Governance & Standards
• Stakeholder Management