Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Madison, WI
Category: Architecture
Industry: Government
Reference ID: JN -012026-105218
Date Posted: 01/26/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/5oJwgu
Description:
Hybrid 2-3 days on site in Madison, WI
The organization is an independent state agency managing the assets of major public funds, including a large retirement system, a state investment fund, and other trust funds. As of the most recent reported period, the organization managed over $143 billion in assets and operates with a mandate to deliver strong, risk-aware investment performance in the public interest.
This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Salary: $145,000 - $155,000/ yr.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Act as lead architect for large-scale strategic programs, providing end-to-end solution oversight from concept through implementation.
- Partner with business, data, and engineering leaders to ensure aligned, secure, and scalable solutions.
- Review and validate architecture and design documents to ensure compliance with standards and objectives.
- Design and guide resilient multi-region cloud architectures and cloud platform strategies.
- Contribute code for microservices, infrastructure as code templates, automation scripts, and platform accelerators.
- Drive platform adoption and modernization of legacy systems.
- Mentor engineers, architects, and technical leads on design practices and emerging technologies.
- Align agile, iterative delivery with long-term architectural integrity.
- Guide platform choices, integration patterns, and implementation strategies across teams.
- Develop architectural blueprints and roadmaps aligned to investment strategies and modernization goals.
- Conduct architecture reviews focused on sound cloud principles for enterprise initiatives including platform rationalization, infrastructure modernization, and data architecture improvements.
- Govern architecture tools, standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
- Promote reference architectures and comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks across the technology organization.
- Advise on architecture governance, investment prioritization, and technology portfolio planning.
Experience Requirements:
Experience Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, ideally in investment management or financial services.
- Proven ability to translate long-term strategy into actionable architectures across business, technology, data, and application domains.
- Expertise in microservices, API-first design, event-driven systems, and zero-trust security.
- Experience designing resilient multi-region cloud architectures and leading platform strategy and adoption.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and building platform accelerators.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes, and hybrid or multi-cloud deployments.
- Exposure to real-time data processing, messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, or event sourcing architectures.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture platforms and modeling tools such as BizzDesign, OpenSearch, or ArchiMate.
- Strong verbal and visual communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align across functions and leadership levels in a collaborative environment.
Education Requirements:
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (certification).
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (certification).
- ArchiMate certification preferred.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com.
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