Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement
Gal Manufacturing, a Vantage Elevation Company8 days ago
Bronx, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises solution architectures.
- Establish reusable cloud architecture patterns, reference designs, standards, governance policies, and implementation guardrails.
- Evaluate workloads and recommend migration approaches including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, replacing, retaining, or retiring applications.
- Design enterprise integration patterns, architecture diagrams, data flows, interface specifications, deployment models, and implementation roadmaps.
- Partner with data and analytics teams on data platforms, pipelines, lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, business intelligence, and AI architecture.
- Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, risk-management, identity, encryption, logging, vulnerability-management, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity requirements into designs.
- Provide architectural guidance through requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations transition.
- Lead design workshops, communicate with technical and executive stakeholders, review deliverables, and support complex cross-platform troubleshooting.
- Evaluate cloud platforms, software products, implementation partners, and managed service providers and support vendor selection and technical due diligence.
- Monitor cloud consumption and recommend improvements to performance, licensing, and operating costs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least seven years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, application development, systems integration, cloud engineering, or a related field.
- At least three years of direct experience designing and implementing cloud or hybrid-cloud solutions.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise applications and on-premises systems and understanding of APIs, middleware, data integration, and application integration patterns.
- Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision documents, and implementation roadmaps.
- Experience collaborating across infrastructure, application, data, cybersecurity, business, and vendor teams.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, including communication with executive and business audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Microsoft Entra ID, manufacturing or distribution experience, legacy application modernization, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, cloud automation, data lakehouse and governance concepts, FinOps, and relevant cloud or architecture certification.
Benefits
- Remote, full-time, exempt position.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Professional development and growth opportunities.
- Annual incentive opportunity.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Gal Manufacturing, a Vantage Elevation Company
GAL Manufacturing, part of Vantage Elevation, designs and manufactures nonproprietary elevator components—door equipment, controllers, and signal fixtures—for elevator contractors, OEMs, and modernization projects. Founded in 1927 and headquartered in the Bronx, New York, it sells hardware, replacement parts, and support services through a B2B model across North America. Vantage Elevation is backed by Golden Gate Capital, and sister brands include Hollister-Whitney, Courion, Bore-Max, Elevator Controls, and GAL Canada.