Cloud Architect
Sherwin-Williams3 days ago
Cleveland, OH, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive integration architecture designs aligned with business goals such as speed, reliability, and scalability.
- Develop and promote domain-driven conceptual and logical models while ensuring adherence to architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
- Create execution plans and standardized reference architectures for cloud and application deployment, including reusable components and deployment patterns.
- Define cloud strategy, technology standards, architectural patterns, resilience approaches, and multi-year roadmaps across engineering and application teams.
- Design enterprise-scale hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including landing zones, network connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and shared cloud services.
- Establish infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning, policy enforcement, cloud enablement, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Apply FinOps practices including cost allocation, chargeback/showback, forecasting, optimization, and consumption governance.
- Design cloud resilience, backup, disaster recovery, replication, recovery automation, and testing strategies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and trends and recommend solutions that support innovation and competitive advantage.
- Lead stakeholder collaboration, strategic technical communications, training, mentoring, and adoption of secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or at least 15 years of IT experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 12 years of experience in the specific domain and designing solutions.
- Proven experience designing and architecting complex systems at the functional or enterprise level.
- Expertise in technology integration, system interfaces, enterprise application integration, and service-oriented architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud providers and modern architectures, including microservices, serverless, and containerization.
- Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred certifications include TOGAF Level 2, CISSP, CEAP, CSA, or CSEA.
- At least 6 years of experience with Azure, AWS, or Oracle Cloud products.
- At least 7 years of cloud architecture and engineering experience, including 5 years designing enterprise-scale hybrid or multi-cloud architectures across at least two major cloud platforms.
- At least 5 years of experience with cloud service enablement, infrastructure as code, and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- At least 3 years of experience applying enterprise cloud financial management or FinOps practices using tools such as Azure Cost Management, Apptio Cloudability, or AWS Cost Explorer.
- At least 5 years of experience designing cloud resilience, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- At least 5 years in a technical leadership role defining cloud strategy, reference architectures, standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
- Must be at least 18 years old and legally authorized to work without now or future sponsorship.
Benefits
- This is an on-site position at the Cleveland Headquarters office and is not hybrid or remote.
- The position is not eligible for work-authorization sponsorship now or in the future, including H-1B conversion.
- Employment requires a criminal-history review due to access to confidential and proprietary information.
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About Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams manufactures and sells paints, coatings, and related products for homeowners, professional contractors, and industrial/OEM customers. It goes to market through company-owned retail stores, commercial sales and distribution, and specialty brands serving architectural, automotive refinish, and industrial and marine applications. Founded in 1866 and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Sherwin-Williams is a public company listed on the NYSE.