Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect & AI Lead

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Life insurance

PTO & parental leave

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to own enterprise cloud and data center strategy, including multi-cloud target state, workload placement, and AI-driven migration planning.

The role partners with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering and Platform teams and requires strong executive presence to communicate with engineers and Finance on cost and strategy. Hybrid work at St. Petersburg, FL.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on depth across cloud, data center, networking, storage and resiliency.
• Experience leading large migrations or data center exits end-to-end.
• AI-forward by habit with daily use of agentic tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise cloud and data center target architecture and the roadmap from current to target state across AWS, Azure, private cloud and SaaS.
• Own workload-placement framework balancing cost, resiliency, data residency, latency and regulatory obligations.
• Set landing-zone and platform standards for identity, networking, guardrails, tagging and observability with security teams.
• Architect resiliency, disaster recovery, and regulatory resilience with RTO/RPO standards and multi-region patterns.
• Embed FinOps in architecture through cost models, rightsizing, and run-cost transparency.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure design

Executive communication

AI tool usage

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Raymond James is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to own enterprise cloud and data center strategy, including multi-cloud target state, workload placement, and AI-driven migration planning.

The role partners with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering and Platform teams and requires strong executive presence to communicate with engineers and Finance on cost and strategy. Hybrid work at St. Petersburg, FL.