Cloud Architect

Michigan Farm Bureau; Town of Lansing (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K

Job summary

Michigan Farm Bureau seeks a Cloud Architect to own the enterprise cloud strategy, shape standards, and guide secure, cost-effective delivery of critical business capabilities. You will translate objectives into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures, partnering with leaders across IT and business units.

This hybrid role combines remote work from Michigan with onsite presence at the Lansing Home Office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 8-10 years in cloud architecture/engineering for regulated/high-availability environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and landing zones.
• Experience designing enterprise reference architectures and guardrails.
• Certifications preferred: AWS/Azure/GCP CCSP or FinOps optional.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and design standards.
• Lead enterprise cloud solution architecture for high-availability workloads.
• Develop cloud adoption and migration roadmaps with cost and risk controls.
• Define cloud security architecture with IAM, segmentation, encryption.
• Lead architecture reviews and remediation with audit and compliance teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise security

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Cloud Architect

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.

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.

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