Senior Cloud Services Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture for hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms.
• Create high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, migration roadmaps, operational runbooks, and transition plans.
• Act as a hands-on architect for infrastructure, cloud landing zones, network connectivity, security controls, identity, backup, monitoring, and automation.
• Assess current-state IT landscapes and define target-state hybrid cloud solutions aligned to business, technical, security, compliance, and cost objectives.
• Drive cloud migration and modernization planning, including workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, and risk mitigation.
• Design and integrate managed services operating models, including ITIL-aligned processes, monitoring, incident/problem/change management, capacity management, patching, backup, DR, and service reporting.
• Support Day-2 operations readiness by ensuring solutions are supportable, observable, resilient, cost-managed, and aligned to SLAs/OLAs.
• Engage directly with client stakeholders, including CIO/CTO teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure leads, security teams, procurement, and business owners.
• Contribute to proposals, solution costing, effort estimation, commercial models, RFP/RFI responses, statements of work, and governance reviews.
• Collaborate with delivery, operations, security, application, network, and commercial teams to ensure successful solution implementation and handover.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design governance, and architecture review support across multiple projects or client engagements.
• Required Experience & Skills
• Minimum 12 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, and enterprise solution design.
• Strong hands-on expertise in on-premise platforms, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and data center operations.
• Proven experience designing hybrid cloud solutions using one or more public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of private cloud, virtualization, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native operating models.
• Deep knowledge of managed services operations and Day-2 support models, including service transition, operations governance, SLA management, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and commercially viable architecture solutions.
• Experience with cloud connectivity patterns such as VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, SD-WAN, routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid identity integration.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, IAM, zero trust principles, encryption, vulnerability management, compliance controls, and operational risk.
• Commercial awareness with ability to support solution pricing, cost optimization, financial governance, service scope definition, and risk/commercial trade-off discussions.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills, with ability to present complex architecture topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong team player with proven ability to work across pre-sales, delivery, operations, and customer teams.
• Preferred Certifications
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• TOGAF, ITIL Foundation / Managing Professional, VMware, Kubernetes, security, or networking certifications are desirable.
• Key Competencies
• Hybrid cloud architecture and modernization strategy
• Managed services and Day-2 operations design
• Client advisory and stakeholder management
• Commercial solutioning, estimation, and cost optimization
• Governance, risk management, and operational resilience
• Collaboration, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership
• Success Measures
• High-quality, secure, supportable, and commercially sound hybrid cloud architectures.
• Smooth transition from solution design to implementation and managed services operations.
• Strong client confidence through

Additional Information

Make an impact with NTT DATA Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive. We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect with a minimum of 12 years of experience to lead the design, transformation, and operationalization of enterprise-scale hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate must be hands-on across both on-premise infrastructure and public cloud, with deep understanding of managed services, Day-2 operations, commercial governance, and client-facing solution leadership.

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