Y&L Consulting, Inc. · 22 hours ago
Sr. Cloud Architect
San Antonio, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
$60/hr - $90/hrY&L Consulting is seeking a Sr. Cloud Architect to translate business strategy into scalable and secure solutions across digital platforms and cloud infrastructure. This role involves designing architectures, leading technical delivery, and optimizing cloud costs while ensuring compliance and governance.
ConsultingCRMInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Translate business objectives into holistic solution architectures that span digital platforms and cloud infrastructure
Define and enforce architecture guardrails, design patterns, and standards for both application and cloud environments
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, roadmaps, and reference architectures
Identify and document gaps, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies early in the lifecycle
Establish governance for resource provisioning, tagging, and cost management
Lead end-to-end solution design across frontend, backend, integration, data, and cloud infrastructure for the digital platform
Guide teams through architecture reviews, technical evaluations, and implementation choices for digital and cloud-native solutions
Drive adoption of cloud-native services and modern digital architecture patterns (microservices, BFF, event-driven, serverless)
Promote engineering excellence through DevOps/SRE practices (CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, APM, feature flags, A/B testing)
Develop and maintain cost models, budgets, and optimization strategies for Azure services
Implement FinOps practices to monitor and control cloud spend while maximizing business value
Define standards for scalability, performance, and resilience in cloud deployments
Ensure cloud architectures support disaster recovery, high availability, and compliance requirements
Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to elicit, refine, and document requirements and success criteria
Facilitate cross‑functional working sessions with designers, engineers, and business SMEs to de‑risk ambiguous/problematic requirements
Communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences with clarity and actionable recommendations
Assess emerging technologies, frameworks, and methodologies; provide strategic recommendations aligned to enterprise goals
Bring hands-on experience in evaluating and implementing third-party SaaS solutions to accelerate digital transformation initiatives
Maintain and enhance architecture documentation in approved repositories for transparency and reuse
Drive continuous improvement of architecture standards and actively contribute to the technology roadmap
Embed security-by-design principles, identity and access management, data privacy, and compliance requirements within all architectures
Ensure solutions meet availability, performance, and observability of SLAs/SLOs with appropriate metrics and dashboards
Apply domain expertise across POS, Back Office Operations, Kitchen Management, Payment Processing, Order Management, and MarTech (loyalty, CRM, CDP, customer segmentation, web analytics) to architect integrated customer and store solutions
Qualification
Required
Architecture frameworks & practices: TOGAF (or equivalent), architecture modeling, reference architectures
Cloud & infrastructure: Microsoft Azure (compute, storage, networking, security), microservices, BFF patterns, event-driven architecture
Application & integration: .NET, Node.js, React Native; REST/GraphQL API design; messaging; integration patterns
Data & Analytics: SQL and data validation; familiarity with AI/ML use cases and responsible AI considerations
Observability & Quality: APM, logging, monitoring, automated testing, performance tuning
Proven ability to decompose complex problems, identify edge cases and negative scenarios, and recommend pragmatic solutions
Experience translating business strategy into clear architecture requirements and measurable outcomes
Strong analytical skills to identify cost drivers, optimize resource utilization, and recommend pragmatic solutions
Strong facilitation and interpersonal skills; adept at building consensus across product, engineering, design, and business teams
Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences
Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, ARM Templates, Terraform
Architecture & Modeling: LeanIX, LucidCharts/Visio, ARIS Business Process Mapping
Delivery & Collaboration: Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
API & Data Validation: Postman, SQL
Monitoring & Cost Management: DataDog, App Insights, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Azure Cost Management
Preferred
Experience with MarTech Stack (loyalty, CRM, CDP, customer segmentation, web analytics)
Experience implementing enterprise-scale Azure landing zones and governance frameworks
Prior architecture leadership within QSR or multi-unit retail environments
Knowledge of security frameworks and compliance (e.g., PCI for payments)
Company
Y&L Consulting, Inc.
A global business and technology solutions company spanning across four continents.
Founded in 1999
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Erach Songadwala
Founder, President and CEO
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