Overview As a Senior Data Platform Architect, you will steer platform architecture and engineering strategies across cloud foundation, container platforms, data platforms, and developer experience. You will lead a small team of platform architects, define standards, and collaborate with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering leaders to enable secure, scalable software delivery. You'll shape reference architectures, roadmaps, and governance to balance cost, risk, and performance. This role offers growth in a collaborative, inclusive culture at CLA, with a focus on delivering reliable platforms that empower the business.
Compensation / Benefits Responsibilities- Define and evolve platform reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and deployment patterns to enable safe, efficient software delivery
- Establish target-state platform roadmaps aligned with business and cloud strategies, security, and technical debt reduction
- Partner with Cloud Architecture to align capabilities with enterprise objectives
- Evaluate technology options and make architecture recommendations balancing cost, risk, scalability, and maintainability
- Lead architecture and design reviews for complex platform initiatives across multiple teams
- Define enterprise CI/CD standards, deployment patterns, automation frameworks, and delivery guardrails
- Collaborate with DevOps to improve build, release, deployment, and environment management practices
- Ensure platform solutions meet non-functional requirements (availability, performance, security, compliance)
- Drive adoption of platform capabilities via reference implementations and governance
- Provide leadership, coaching, and performance development; support hiring and onboarding
- Promote secure-by-design and compliance-by-default architectural patterns
- Establish governance processes ensuring adherence to standards and risk management
- Own or co-own platform reliability practices (SLOs, SLIs, incident reviews, RCAs)
- Define platform lifecycle management including versioning, deprecation, and adoption planning
- Translate complex technical topics for diverse stakeholders; maintain architecture artifacts and ADRs
Key requirements- 6 years relevant experience
- Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
- Supervisory experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree required
- Expert knowledge of enterprise platform architecture and large-scale ecosystems
- Advanced cloud architecture knowledge across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
- Experience defining CI/CD strategies, release automation, and DevOps models
- Advanced understanding of IaC, platform automation, and environment provisioning
- Deep knowledge of SRE, observability, monitoring, and reliability practices
- Advanced understanding of security architecture, IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability management
- Experience leading architecture reviews and communicating decisions to stakeholders
- leadership
- mentoring
- stakeholder communication
- enterprise platform architecture
- platform engineering
- cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP)
