Senior Data Platform Architect | Cloud-Native Leadership

CliftonLarsonAllen; Hudson (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision plan

401(k)

Job summary

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to guide platform architecture and engineering practices within the Information Technology team. You will lead a small team of platform architects, define enterprise standards, and partner with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to enable secure, scalable software delivery across the organization.

The role focuses on platform strategy, reference architectures, governance, and lifecycle management, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• 6 years relevant experience required.
• Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree is required; combination of experience and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Degree in Information Management or Computer Science preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
• Establish target-state platform roadmaps aligned to business strategy, cloud strategy, security requirements, and technical debt reduction.
• Partner with Cloud Architecture leaders to align platform capabilities with enterprise objectives.
• Evaluate technology options and make architecture recommendations balancing cost, risk, scalability, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for complex platform initiatives across multiple teams.
• Define enterprise CI/CD architecture standards, deployment patterns, automation frameworks, and guardrails.
• Partner with DevOps to establish and continuously improve build, release, deployment, and environment management practices.
• Ensure platform solutions meet non-functional requirements including availability, performance, resilience, security, compliance, and operability.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through reference implementations and governance.

Skills

Platform architecture

Cloud architecture

SRE

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Information Management

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to guide platform architecture and engineering practices within the Information Technology team. You will lead a small team of platform architects, define enterprise standards, and partner with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to enable secure, scalable software delivery across the organization.

The role focuses on platform strategy, reference architectures, governance, and lifecycle management, with emphasis on