Senior Data Platform Architect — Cloud & Platform Strategy

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Madison (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to join our Information Technology team in Madison, WI. The role guides platform architecture across multiple domains, leads a small team, and partners with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to define scalable, secure platform strategies.

You will define enterprise CI/CD standards, IaC practices, and reliability programs, ensuring availability, performance and security while aligning with enterprise governance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Supervisory experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
• Establish roadmaps aligned to business and cloud strategy, security, and debt reduction.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across teams.
• Define enterprise CI/CD architecture standards, deployment patterns, automation frameworks, and guardrails.
• Partner with DevOps to improve build, release, deployment, and environment management.
• Ensure platform solutions meet availability, performance, security, compliance, and operability.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities via reference implementations and governance.
• Translate complex topics into clear decisions for stakeholders.
• Create architecture artifacts including ADRs, diagrams, deployment standards, and logs.

Skills

Platform architecture

Cloud architecture

Site Reliability

Leadership

CI/CD

IaC

Security architecture

Stakeholder comms

Governance

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to join our Information Technology team in Madison, WI. The role guides platform architecture across multiple domains, leads a small team, and partners with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to define scalable, secure platform strategies.

You will define enterprise CI/CD standards, IaC practices, and reliability programs, ensuring availability, performance and security while aligning with enterprise governance and