Senior Data Platform Architect & Platform Strategy Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to join our Information Technology team. You will guide platform architecture across cloud foundations, data platforms, and CI/CD practices, leading a small team of platform architects to define standards and patterns that drive secure, scalable software delivery.

You will partner with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and security leaders to shape roadmaps, govern architecture decisions, and ensure non-functional requirements such as

Qualifications

• 6 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
• Establish target‑state platform roadmaps aligned to business strategy and cloud strategy.
• Partner with Cloud Architecture leaders to align platform capabilities with enterprise objectives.
• Evaluate options and make architecture recommendations balancing cost, risk, scalability, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Define enterprise CI/CD architecture standards, deployment patterns, automation frameworks, and software delivery guardrails.
• Collaborate with DevOps to improve build, release, deployment, and environment management practices.
• Ensure platform solutions meet availability, performance, resilience, security, compliance, and operability.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through reference implementations and governance.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

SRE

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

CLA is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to join our Information Technology team. You will guide platform architecture across cloud foundations, data platforms, and CI/CD practices, leading a small team of platform architects to define standards and patterns that drive secure, scalable software delivery.

You will partner with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and security leaders to shape roadmaps, govern architecture decisions, and ensure non-functional requirements such as