Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Madison

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

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Job Description Description: Hybrid 2-3 days on site in Madison, WI

The organization is an independent state agency managing the assets of major public funds, including a large retirement system, a state investment fund, and other trust funds. As of the most recent reported period, the organization managed over $143 billion in assets and operates with a mandate to deliver strong, risk-aware investment performance in the public interest.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $145,000 - $155,000/ yr.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities

* Act as lead architect for large-scale strategic programs, providing end-to-end solution oversight from concept through implementation. * Partner with business, data, and engineering leaders to ensure aligned, secure, and scalable solutions. * Review and validate architecture and design documents to ensure compliance with standards and objectives. * Design and guide resilient multi-region cloud architectures and cloud platform strategies. * Contribute code for microservices, infrastructure as code templates, automation scripts, and platform accelerators. * Drive platform adoption and modernization of legacy systems. * Mentor engineers, architects, and technical leads on design practices and emerging technologies. * Align agile, iterative delivery with long-term architectural integrity. * Guide platform choices, integration patterns, and implementation strategies across teams. * Develop architectural blueprints and roadmaps aligned to investment strategies and modernization goals. * Conduct architecture reviews focused on sound cloud principles for enterprise initiatives including platform rationalization, infrastructure modernization, and data architecture improvements. * Govern architecture tools, standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns. * Promote reference architectures and comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks across the technology organization. * Advise on architecture governance, investment prioritization, and technology portfolio planning.

Experience Requirements: Experience Requirements

* 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, ideally in investment management or financial services. * Proven ability to translate long-term strategy into actionable architectures across business, technology, data, and application domains. * Expertise in microservices, API-first design, event-driven systems, and zero-trust security. * Experience designing resilient multi-region cloud architectures and leading platform strategy and adoption. * Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and building platform accelerators. * Working knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes, and hybrid or multi-cloud deployments. * Exposure to real-time data processing, messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, or event sourcing architectures. * Familiarity with enterprise architecture platforms and modeling tools such as BizzDesign, OpenSearch, or ArchiMate. * Strong verbal and visual communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders. * Demonstrated ability to influence and align across functions and leadership levels in a collaborative environment.

Education Requirements: Education Requirements

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. * Advanced degree preferred. * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (certification). * Azure Solutions Architect Expert (certification). * ArchiMate certification preferred.

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Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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