Senior Data Platform Architect: Cloud, SRE & Strategy

CliftonLarsonAllen; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect to lead platform architecture and engineering practices across cloud, data platforms, and developer experience. You will guide strategy, define standards, and collaborate with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to enable secure, scalable software delivery.

You’ll manage a small team of platform architects, own governance, SRE practices, and CI/CD patterns, and ensure platforms meet reliability, security, and

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform reference architectures and deployment patterns.
• Establish target-state platform roadmaps aligned to strategy and security.
• Partner with Cloud Architecture leaders to align capabilities with objectives.
• Evaluate technology options balancing cost, risk, scalability and maintainability.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across teams.
• Define enterprise CI/CD architecture standards and deployment patterns.
• Collaborate with DevOps to improve build, release and environment management.
• Ensure platform solutions meet availability, performance, security and compliance.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities via reference implementations and patterns.
• Translate technical topics into clear decisions for stakeholders.

Skills

Platform architecture

Cloud architecture

SRE

Leadership

DevOps

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Azure/AWS/GCP

CI/CD tooling

IaC tools

Container platforms

Job description

CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect to lead platform architecture and engineering practices across cloud, data platforms, and developer experience. You will guide strategy, define standards, and collaborate with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to enable secure, scalable software delivery.

You’ll manage a small team of platform architects, own governance, SRE practices, and CI/CD patterns, and ensure platforms meet reliability, security, and