Senior Cloud Architect

Overview As a Senior Cloud Architect, you’ll help design and deliver secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient Azure solutions that support critical digital transformation. You’ll collaborate with teams across the business to translate requirements into cloud architectures, contribute to migrations and hands‑on deployments, and ensure smooth transitions into operations. Working with cross‑functional partners, automation tools, and governance frameworks, you’ll help shape reliable cloud services that make a meaningful impact for our clients and communities. Responsibilities Contribute towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies. Engage with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements, translating them into secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud solutions. Assess current cloud technologies and ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets. Facilitate smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance, deployment practices, and handoff to operations. Lead or guide deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands‑on ownership where needed and ensure smooth operational transition. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services. Produce architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials. Participate in governance forums (architecture review, change review). Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements and implement them in accordance with existing enterprise automation framework & tooling Interface with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations Oversee cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization. Review new cloud offerings of interest for organizational alignment Technical Requirements Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Azure) services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Batch, Container App Environments, etc. Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services. Expertise in Azure architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices. Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud init, Azure CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, Docker Understanding of general & cloud-specific networking stack Experience in building and implementing Azure Policies Experience integrating cost‑governance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions. Strong background in producing high‑and low‑level designs across multi‑vendor cloud ecosystems. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams. Required Qualifications 5–7+ years of hands‑on cloud architecture and design experience in large, distributed enterprise environments. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or experience in a related field. Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or a similar role. Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. WSP Benefits WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $86,100.00 - $150,590.00 WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. Expected Salary (Colorado only): $86,100.00 - $141,350.00 WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper. WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started? WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States. NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. 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