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Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect Lead to lead our Cloud Solution Architecture capability and support the growth of our Cloud & Security business in Thailand.
The role will combine technical leadership, cloud solution architecture, presales engagement, customer advisory, and team leadership . The successful candidate will lead a team of Cloud and Technical Architects, working closely with sales, delivery, managed services, security, and technology partners to design secure, scalable, resilient, and commercially viable cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of Cloud Architects and Technical Architects , providing technical direction, coaching, architecture governance, and support on complex customer opportunities.
Own the end-to-end cloud solution architecture for strategic and enterprise customer opportunities.
Work closely with Sales and GTM teams during the presales lifecycle , including customer discovery, technical workshops, solution development, proposal preparation, presentations, and technical clarification.
Design public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP.
Translate customer business requirements into practical cloud architecture, migration, modernization, security, networking, resilience, and operating-model solutions.
Lead architecture reviews and ensure solutions follow cloud architecture best practices covering security, availability, performance, scalability, operational excellence, and cost optimization .
Provide technical leadership for cloud migration and transformation initiatives, including application migration, infrastructure modernization, landing zones, containers, automation, and cloud-native services.
Partner with Security, Network, Managed Services, Application, Data & AI, and other technical teams to develop integrated solutions.
Support solution costing, effort estimation, BOM development, commercials, and Statements of Work together with relevant business and delivery teams.
Establish reusable reference architectures, solution standards, design patterns, and architecture governance to improve solution quality and speed-to-market.
Build strong technical relationships with strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud .
Act as a trusted technology advisor to enterprise customers and senior stakeholders, explaining complex architecture topics in clear business terms.
Stay current with developments in cloud platforms, Generative AI, automation, containers, FinOps, security, and emerging infrastructure technologies.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
Ideally 10+ years of IT infrastructure/cloud experience , including significant experience in solution architecture, cloud architecture, consulting, or presales.
Demonstrated experience leading technical architects or senior engineering/solution teams.
Strong hands-on architecture knowledge in at least one major cloud platform, with broad understanding across: Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architecture , networking, identity, security, backup/DR, observability, and cloud operations.
Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud migration and modernization solutions.
Good understanding of containers/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps/CI-CD, automation, and cloud-native architectures .
Experience engaging directly with enterprise customers at technical and senior-management levels.
Strong presentation, consulting, stakeholder…