Vice President - Enterprise & Cloud Architecture

Raymondjames; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybride; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Raymond James is seeking a senior technology leader to own the hybrid cloud and data-center architecture, guiding multi-cloud strategy and workload placement in a regulated financial services environment.

You will drive AI-enabled migration and platform strategies to enable secure, cost-efficient operations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on depth across cloud, data center, networking, storage and resiliency.
• Experience at hyperscaler or large technology company running at internet scale, or at a major Wall Street or capital-markets firm with always-on, highly regulated infra.
• AI-forward by habit; uses Claude Code or similar agentic tools daily to accelerate architecture and migration work.
• Builder credibility; writes and reviews infrastructure as code and can defend decisions with engineers and Finance.

Responsabilités

• Define and maintain the enterprise cloud and data center target architecture and the roadmap to target across AWS, Azure, private cloud and SaaS.
• Own the workload-placement framework: evaluate cost, resiliency, data residency, latency, regulatory obligations and exit risk for cloud/on-prem/SaaS.
• Set landing-zone and platform standards for identity, networking, guardrails, tagging and observability in partnership with Enterprise Security Architecture.
• Own data center modernization and exit roadmap; sequence migrations by value and risk and make stranded cost visible.
• Architect resiliency and disaster recovery with RTO/RPO standards, multi-region and hybrid failover patterns.
• Embed FinOps in architecture; unit-cost models, rightsizing and run-cost transparency with IT Finance.
• Use AI coding agents hands-on to speed up architecture and migration work and set safe patterns for tooling usage.
• Architect the firm's AI infrastructure: model hosting, inference, accelerated compute, and data placement for AI workloads.
• Partner with Developer Experience to make infrastructure-as-code, containers and Kubernetes the default consumption path for cloud.
• Run architecture reviews for major infra decisions with published criteria and traceable decisions.

Connaissances

Cloud architecture

Infra architecture

AI tooling

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science

Outils

Claude Code

Description du poste

Job Description Summary

Note: This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds - flexibility and collaboration. In office days are 3 days per week (including a Monday or Friday), in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.

This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Job Description

This senior technology leader will own the architecture of where and how the firm runs its technology: the hybrid and multi-cloud target state, workload-placement standards, landing zones, the data center modernization and exit roadmap, and the resiliency architecture underneath it all. The role is accountable for speeding up cloud adoption while controlling run cost and meeting the resiliency and regulatory expectations of a financial services firm.

The role is built for an AI-forward practitioner. The leader in this seat uses AI coding agents such as Claude Code every day in their own work: portfolio and dependency analysis, infrastructure as code, migration planning and architecture documentation. They bring that speed to the firm's migration program. They also architect the platforms that let the firm run AI workloads well, including model hosting and inference, accelerated compute capacity, and data placement that keeps AI near the data it needs.

This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports. It partners closely with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering and Platform teams, who keep ownership of build and run. This role owns the target architecture, the standards and the placement decisions they build against. It demands strong executive presence, and the credibility to hold a deep technical conversation with senior engineers and a cost conversation with Finance in the same day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise cloud and data center target architecture and the roadmap from current state to target, across AWS, Azure, private cloud and SaaS.
• Own the workload-placement framework: one published decision method for cloud, on-premises or SaaS, weighing cost, resiliency, data residency, latency, regulatory obligations and exit risk. Apply it consistently, not project by project.
• Set landing-zone and platform standards for identity, networking, guardrails, tagging and observability, in partnership with Enterprise Security Architecture, so new workloads start compliant by default.
• Own the data center modernization and exit roadmap. Sequence migrations by business value and risk, retire capacity on purpose, and make stranded cost visible.
• Architect resiliency and disaster recovery: application tiering with RTO/RPO standards, multi-region and hybrid failover patterns, and architecture evidence for BCP/DR testing and regulatory resilience expectations.
• Embed FinOps in the architecture: unit-cost models, rightsizing and commitment strategy, and run-cost transparency, in partnership with IT Finance, who keep ownership of the numbers.
• Use AI coding agents and agentic tooling hands-on to speed up architecture and migration work, including estate discovery, dependency mapping, infrastructure-as-code generation and review, and decision records. Set the pattern for how architecture teams use these tools safely.
• Architect the firm's AI infrastructure: model hosting and inference patterns, accelerated compute capacity strategy, and data placement for AI workloads.
• Partner with Developer Experience to make the infrastructure paved road (infrastructure as code, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD) the default way teams consume cloud.
• Run architecture review for major infrastructure and platform decisions. Use published criteria, record decisions, and track exceptions to closure.
• Collaborate with senior executives on strategy, investment cases, and executive-level communications and presentations.
• Keep a strong external view of cloud provider roadmaps, infrastructure economics and emerging platform patterns.

What We're Looking For

• A recognized subject-matter expert in cloud and infrastructure architecture, with 15+ years of hands-on depth across public cloud, data center, networking, storage and resiliency.
• Proven where the stakes are highest. Experience at a hyperscaler or large technology company running at internet scale, or at a major Wall Street or capital-markets firm running always-on, highly regulated infrastructure. Has led a large migration or data center exit end to end.
• AI-forward by habit, not by title. Uses Claude Code or similar agentic tools daily, and can show how AI changed the speed or quality of their architecture and migration work.
• Builder credibility. Writes and reviews infrastructure as code, and can defend a placement decision line by line with both engineers and Finance.

Certifications

TOGAF and AWS or Azure professional-level certification preferred, not required.

Education

Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experien