Cloud Architect

Michigan Farm Bureau; Lansing, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefit package: medical, dental,

Job summary

Michigan Farm Bureau is seeking an Senior Cloud Architect to own the end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and establish enterprise-wide design standards for secure, resilient, and cost-efficient delivery of critical business capabilities.

You will translate strategic objectives into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures, guiding investment decisions and roadmaps while acting as a senior technical authority to enterprise leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Eight to ten years of progressive experience in cloud architecture/engineering.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience planning and executing migrations/modernizations with measurable resilience, performance, and/or cost improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise-wide design standards.
• Lead enterprise cloud solution architecture for available and business-critical workloads.
• Develop and lead cloud adoption and migration roadmaps with metrics for risk reduction and cost efficiency.
• Define cloud security architecture and control objectives with IT Security; ensure regulatory alignment.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and remediation planning with audit, risk, and compliance partners.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise architecture

Hybrid cloud

Regulatory compliance

Security architecture

Migration planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Own the end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and the enterprise-wide design standards that enable secure, resilient, and cost-effective delivery of critical business capabilities. Translate strategic business objectives and risk requirements into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures, guiding investment decisions and technology roadmaps. Act as a senior technical authority and partner to enterprise architecture, engineering, security, and business leaders to ensure solutions meet regulatory obligations, availability and recovery objectives, and financial targets.

Lead enterprise cloud solution architecture for highly-available and business-critical workloads, including definition of reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails to ensure reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.

Develop and lead cloud adoption and migration roadmaps, including application rationalization, dependency mapping, cutover planning, and post-migration optimization; establish success measures for risk reduction, reliability improvement, and cost efficiency.

Define cloud security architecture and control objectives in partnership with IT Security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and secure-by-default platform configurations; ensure designs align to applicable regulatory and audit expectations.

Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and risk-based remediation planning; partner with audit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure cloud and hybrid designs satisfy control testing, evidence requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field required.
• Eight to ten years of progressive experience in cloud architecture/engineering, including leading architecture decisions for business-critical platforms in regulated or high-availability environments.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) including design of enterprise landing zones, network and identity foundations, and reusable reference architectures.
• Proven experience planning and executing migrations/modernizations (applications, data, and infrastructure) with measurable improvements in resilience, performance, and/or total cost of ownership.

Preferred:

• One or more of the following certifications preferred: 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 equivalent cloud cost management certification) preferred.

Note: This is a Hybrid position working both remotely (from the State of Michigan) and Onsite at the Farm Bureau Home Office located in Lansing, Michigan. Prefer that candidate lives within an hour of the Farm Bureau Home Office in Lansing, Michigan. Farm Bureau offers a full benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K. PM19

Work Type

Hybrid

Standard Hours

8:00am-4:30pm

Position Type

Full-time

124,525

Location(s)

Lansing , Michigan 48917

The Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies is an equal opportunity employer. The Company will not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, citizenship, or any other class protected by applicable law. In accordance with Michigan's Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act, the companies listed above advise you as follows: If you believe that any of the above-listed companies has failed to accommodate you as a disabled individual, you may allege a violation against that company for failing to so accommodate you, but only if you have notified that company in writing of your need for accommodation within 182 days after the date on which you knew, or reasonably should have known, that an accommodation was needed by you to perform the job which you hold or seek.