Global Solutions Architect

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential cloud infrastructure client in their search for a Global Solutions Architect to serve as the most senior technical authority for public cloud within their professional services organization. This is a global, individual-contributor role at Technical Director level, based in the United States.

You will set architectural direction for how enterprise-scale data protection and cyber resilience platforms are designed, deployed, and operated in the world's most demanding cloud environments—and you will carry that direction personally into the most strategic customer engagements.

This role is deployed where technical risk is highest: flagship accounts, first-of-a-kind architectures, and engagements whose outcomes set the pattern for the entire practice. Between those engagements, you will convert what you learn into reference architectures, service offerings, and enablement that raise the capability of every architect and consultant in the field.

Responsibilities

• Own the global cloud architecture standard for the professional services practice—reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and documented anti-patterns
• Act as the final technical escalation point for cloud architecture decisions on strategic engagements worldwide
• Lead architecture and design on the most complex, highest-visibility customer engagements globally—multi-region, multi-cloud, multi-regulator estates
• Serve as trusted advisor to customer CIO, CTO, Chief Architect, and CISO stakeholders; defend design decisions in front of customer architecture review boards
• Partner with Sales and Pre-Sales on strategic pursuits: technical validation, level of effort, and honest risk assessment
• Build intellectual property that multiplies your reach—reference architectures, deployment automation, design templates, decision trees, and delivery accelerators
• Mentor and technically develop Solutions Architects and senior consultants across all regions
• Define technical competency standards and enablement for cloud within Professional Services
• Act as the field's most credible voice into Product Management and Engineering, backed by evidence from largest deployments
• Represent the practice externally at conferences, customer advisory boards, and in published technical material

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 15+ years overall experience, including 8+ years as a hands-on cloud architect at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for multi-region, multi-account or multi-subscription cloud estates in a large enterprise or consulting/professional services organization
• Expert-level AWS and Azure; GCP strongly preferred
• Genuine depth across compute, storage, networking, identity, and encryption/key management
• Deep understanding of enterprise data protection and cyber resilience—RTO and RPO modeling, immutability, backup and recovery design, isolated and air-gapped recovery
• Working fluency in cloud security and compliance frameworks and how they constrain design in regulated industries
• Strong automation background—infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), scripting (Python, PowerShell), API-first integration, and CI/CD
• Track record of influence without authority across a global, matrixed organization and multiple time zones
• Executive-grade communication—credible with a customer's CIO and their principal engineer on the same day
• Evidence of building reusable technical IP, not only delivering successful projects
• Ability to learn a complex new platform to expert depth, quickly
• Occasional travel

Preferred:

• Kubernetes and containerized workload architecture; cloud-native and managed database platforms
• SaaS data protection experience (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and similar)
• Prior Principal, Distinguished, or Technical Director title within a vendor professional services organization or major systems integrator
• Professional or expert-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent)
• Established public technical presence—talks, writing, open source, or community leadership

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and match it to our client's requirements. Once we've confirmed mutual interest, we will submit your profile to the client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and interview coordination will be managed through Get A Job.ai to ensure a professional and streamlined process.

Pay

Pay details will be discussed during the screening process based on location and experience level. The client offers competitive base salary plus bonus potential, equity, and benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.