Cloud Architect and Governance Lead

Job description

Job title- Cloud Architect and Governance Lead Job Type- Full time: Location – Remote – UK, Netherlands or Portugal – International Travel Role benefits - Competitive Salary + Benefits Package Become part of making the impossible possible. About the role: The Cloud Architect & Governance Lead is accountable for defining, owning, and evolving the organization’s enterprise cloud architecture and governance model. This role ensures that cloud platforms are secure, compliant, cost controlled, and scalable, while enabling delivery teams to innovate at speed within clearly defined guardrails. Acting as the senior technical authority for cloud platform design and governance, the role balances architectural leadership, governance enforcement, and cross functional influence, working closely with Security, IT Operations, Finance, and Engineering teams. This is a platform level leadership role, not a delivery engineer position. What you’ll be doing: Maintain target-state architecture (landing zones, shared services, subscriptions, environment standards) and approve reference designs, patterns, and non-functional requirements Act as final decision-maker for cloud architecture standards, except...