Description:
The Infrastructure Solution Architect (Application Migration to Cloud) is a senior technical role responsible for defining, governing, and delivering enterprise-scale cloud migration architecture for critical business applications. This role leads complex modernization initiatives, shapes cloud migration strategy, and ensures solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and long-term business objectives.
Operating as a trusted advisor, the Architect partners with application, development, security, and business leaders to drive modernization decisions, resolve complex architectural challenges, and ensure cloud solutions are resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and operationally sustainable.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead architect for complex and high-impact application migration initiatives to cloud platforms (primarily Azure).
- Define migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor, retire, retain).
- Perform deep application and platform assessments.
- Design and govern target-state cloud and hybrid architectures.
- Provide architectural oversight across multiple initiatives.
- Collaborate with application owners, development teams, infrastructure, security, and vendors.
- Produce and maintain authoritative architecture artifacts.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues.
- Drive optimization of performance, availability, security, resilience, and cost.
- Contribute to cloud migration frameworks, landing zones, and standards.
- Mentor solution architects and engineering teams.
- Influence technology strategy and roadmaps.
- Ensure solutions are designed to be AI ready and aligned to McCain’s enterprise AI platform, governance, and observability standards.
- Partner with the AI Platform team to ensure workloads integrate with approved Copilot, agent, and AI service patterns.
- Design with clear separation between systems of record and AI augmented experiences.
Measures of Success
- Successful delivery of enterprise-scale migrations.
- Reduction in technical debt.
- Compliance with security and operational standards.
- High stakeholder confidence.
- Reusable architecture patterns.
- Solutions and migrated applications can safely consume or expose AI capabilities without rework.
- No unmanaged or non-governed AI usage introduced through solution or migration design.
Key Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years in architecture roles.
- Strong application and cloud background.
- Leadership of large-scale migration programs.
- Excellent communication and governance skills.