Cloud Architect

About Jodayn

Jodayn is seeking a Cloud Architect to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves defining, designing, and governing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.

Role Overview

The Cloud Architect supports cloud strategy, cloud adoption, landing zones, migration, modernization, governance, security, platform services, and integration with existing enterprise environments. The role ensures that cloud solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, business priorities, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture in alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology direction.
• Define cloud strategy, cloud adoption approaches, and target-state cloud architecture.
• Design secure and scalable cloud landing zones for enterprise workloads.
• Define architecture for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
• Develop cloud reference architectures, architecture principles, patterns, guardrails, and technical standards.
• Assess application and infrastructure workloads for cloud suitability, migration approach, and modernization opportunities.
• Define cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, and retain approaches where applicable.
• Design cloud networking, connectivity, identity, access management, security, logging, monitoring, and operational architecture.
• Define architecture for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless platforms, managed services, and platform services.
• Support application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives.
• Define requirements for resilience, availability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance in cloud environments.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements into cloud architecture designs.
• Support cloud governance, subscription/account structures, resource organization, policy enforcement, and tagging standards.
• Promote cost optimization and FinOps principles within cloud architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and solution architects.
• Conduct architecture reviews and assess cloud solutions for compliance with enterprise standards.
• Support cloud platform selection, technology evaluation, vendor assessment, and proof-of-concept activities.
• Identify cloud architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation actions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or related technology disciplines.
• At least 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Architecture or a comparable senior cloud design role.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity architecture.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud transformation or digital transformation programs.
• Strong experience working with technology teams, cybersecurity teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Required Attributes

• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability.
• Ability to translate business and technology requirements into pragmatic cloud architecture decisions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work across enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, application, data, and DevOps teams.
• Strong focus on architecture quality, security, scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
• Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs and multiple stakeholders.