Domain Architect – Cloud

The team is seeking a Domain Architect – Cloud to provide hands-on cloud architecture expertise in Abu Dhabi. This role involves translating organizational cloud, security, infrastructure, and data requirements into practical standards, patterns, templates, and governance artefacts. You will guide and assure cloud solutions delivered by product teams and vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, data residency, infrastructure, and operational policies into clear cloud architecture standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, approved patterns, design templates, review checklists, quality-gate criteria, and architecture decision records.
• Define standards for cloud landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Provide hands-on cloud architecture guidance during planning, sourcing, design, implementation, and readiness stages.
• Review cloud High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs, and disaster-recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess compliance with cloud security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Identify cloud architecture risks, gaps, technical debt, non-compliance, and required remediation.
• Promote reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns, and infrastructure templates.
• Assess emerging cloud technologies and provide architecture-fit and adoption recommendations.
• Support cloud architecture quality gates and provide domain architecture recommendations and approval inputs.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of infrastructure and cloud experience, including cloud architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, identity, containers, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Relevant professional cloud architecture certification is preferred.
• Government, regulated-sector, or large-enterprise experience is preferred.

What we offer:

The team provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes coverage for food, travel expenses, and daily per diem. This is a 1-year contract position with the possibility of extension.