Cloud Architect

Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)

Job summary

Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies seeks a senior Cloud Architect to lead the enterprise cloud strategy and design standards from Lansing, MI. The role requires hands-on ownership of architecture decisions for mission-critical platforms with regulatory and high-availability requirements.

The candidate will drive migrations, cost optimization, security controls, and reference architectures across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, collaborating with IT and business leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or related discipline.
• 8–10 years of progressive cloud architecture or engineering experience.
• Experience delivering migrations and modernization with measurable cost/performance gains.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise design standards.
• Translate objectives into scalable cloud/hybrid reference architectures.
• Collaborate with governance, security, and business leaders to meet targets.
• Define cloud security architecture with IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and secure-by-default configurations.
• Guide cloud adoption and migration roadmaps including application rationalization and post-migration optimization.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud engineering

Enterprise collaboration

Regulatory alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Network security

Identity management

Job description

Salary: $88,000 - 125,000 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Eight to ten years of progressive experience in cloud architecture or engineering, including ownership of architecture decisions for mission-critical platforms in regulated or high-availability environments.
• Proven hands-on expertise with one or more major cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including enterprise landing zones, network and identity foundations, and reusable reference architectures.
• Demonstrated success planning and delivering migrations and modernizations across applications, data, and infrastructure with measurable gains in resilience, performance, and/or total cost of ownership.
• Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), or equivalent.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner, or an equivalent cloud cost management certification, is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise design standards that support secure, resilient, and cost-effective delivery of key business capabilities.
• Translate business objectives and risk requirements into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures that inform investment decisions and technology roadmaps.
• Serve as a senior technical authority and collaborate with enterprise architecture, engineering, security, and business leaders to ensure solutions meet regulatory, availability, recovery, and financial targets.
• Direct enterprise cloud solution architecture for highly available, business-critical workloads, including reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails that strengthen reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Develop and guide cloud adoption and migration roadmaps, including application rationalization, dependency mapping, cutover planning, and post-migration optimization.
• Define cloud security architecture and control objectives with IT Security, covering identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and secure-by-default platform configurations.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and risk-based remediation planning while partnering with audit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to satisfy control testing, evidence, and regulatory obligations.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Security

More We are a hybrid organization working both remotely from the State of Michigan and onsite at our Home Office in Lansing, Michigan. We prefer candidates who live within an hour of our Lansing office. We offer a full benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and a 401(k).
last updated 40 week of 2026