Solutions Architect - Cloud Engineering

Solutions Architect - Cloud Engineering | Intermediate

A forward-deployed solver (fds) and the technical architect for cutting-edge cloud engineering solutions, directly leading design, execution, and real-world impact for our clients' AI-powered transformations.

Your Mission: The Role

Solving for better.

You are a technically accountable, outcome-delivering Solution Architect at Searce, directly shaping and driving large-scale cloud transformations from first principles through exceptional architectural leadership.

You'll be a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for co-innovating and technically realizing transformative business outcomes with client stakeholders by solving differently and relentlessly questioning the status quo. You lead the architectural charge from concept to production.

Lets be clear: this is not your typical cloud architect role where success is measured solely in diagrams and theoretical designs. At Searce, you get into the weeds, leading with a process-first mindset, as fellow engineers evlos (solve differently) intelligent outcomes; while you remain 100% accountable for the technical solutions proposed, their quality, and the real outcomes realized in production.

If you’re a deeply tech-savvy, consultative architect with the brain of a strategist, the heart of a builder, and the charisma of a storyteller — we’ve got a seat for you at the front of the table.

Your Responsibilities:

What you will wake up to solve.

You'll actively contribute to our mission of futurifying clients' businesses by designing and deploying cutting-edge cloud solutions that redefine capabilities and drive unprecedented growth. You will play a vital role in transforming ambitious modernization visions into tangible, high-impact realities for our clients.

Architecting Future-Ready Cloud Solutions:

• Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and technical challenges.
• Design cloud-based solutions that meet client needs while adhering to industry best practices and security standards.
• Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, effectively promoting Google Cloud.
• Design end-to-end modernization solutions that leverage cloud services, automation, and other emerging technologies to enhance performance, reliability, and security.
• Develop comprehensive modernization roadmaps, including migration plans, cost estimates, and risk assessments.
• Lead the implementation of infrastructure modernization projects, including infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment, configuration management, and testing.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution, providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.

Solution Design & Pre-sales Excellence:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, engineering, and operations, to ensure successful project delivery.
• Conduct technical presentations and demonstrations to clients and stakeholders.
• Participate in pre-sales activities, including solution development, proposal writing, and client presentations.
• Own the technical solution's impact, defining, designing, and overseeing its implementation to deliver measurable business value.

Architecting Innovation & Delivering Intelligent Outcomes:

• Applying our proprietary 'evlos' methodology—iterating fast and fearlessly—you will serve as the translator between a client's biggest challenges and our most intelligent, cloud-powered solutions.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging cloud technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential impact on our solutions and services.
• Building and evolving the core architectural principles and engineering practices that ensure our solutions remain transformative and outcome-focused. Create SoWs, build on market case studies and use cases; guide clients and teams through their cloud transformation journeys.

In this hands-on role, you'll collaborate closely with senior cloud engineers and architects, taking ownership of the technical execution for assigned cloud initiatives. You will be accountable for your contributions across the entire solution lifecycle, from assisting in ideation and proof-of-concept to building components for scalable deployment and supporting continuous optimization.

Functional Skills:

• Pre-Sales & Technical Storyteller: Crafts compelling, client-ready proposals, architectural decks, and technical demonstrations. Doesn't just present; shapes the strategic technical narrative behind every proposed solution.
• Architectural Visionary: Designs and co-creates comprehensive solution blueprints, championing an engineering-first design philosophy.
• Cross-Functional Technical Bridge: Learns the language of delivery, sales, and engineering—and acts as the bridge that keeps them in sync.
• Value-Driven Design: Architects solutions to directly impact revenue, business outcomes, and measurable value, ensuring impact extends beyond mere task completion.

Tech Superpowers:

• Future-Forward Cloud Native Innovator: Knows what's new in cloud; our solvers impact-engineer 'the new' through intelligent architectural design.
• Business-First Cloud Visionary: Views cloud tech with a business lens, breaks down complex problems into future-ready cloud solutions by directly supporting presales conversations and upsell opportunities.
• Modern Tech Consultant DNA: Applied Cloud Engineering, Data Intelligence, Work Modernization, Process modernization — not just the buzzwords, but the real understanding of how these offerings create 'business value' for various functional areas in specific domains. More than cloud-certified, cloud-capable. Proven impact through cloud-led solutioning, with the ability to assess trade-offs and position the right tools for the right outcomes. Learns the new-tech and executes with pace & precision.

Experience & Relevance:

Architectural Pedigree: 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud architecture and software development with direct involvement in designing and implementing components of cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform.

Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.

• Experience in network infrastructure, security, and application development.
• Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
• Experience in technology solutions, the enterprise technology buying/evaluation process, and large-scale computing solutions.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and infrastructure as code.

Client-Facing Architectural Acumen: Eager to directly interface with clients, building core technical advisory and architectural design skills in pre-sales or solutioning contexts, effectively showcasing complex technical solutions. Proven track record for architecting, building, and deploying cutting-edge cloud solutions that consistently deliver substantial business value and unprecedented growth for enterprises.

Bonus Points (you will thrive if you have)

• Brings founder energy: high ownership, relentless execution, and bias for real-world impact.
• Have led transformation at scale — think journeys for $1Bn+ enterprises; beyond slideware.
• Solved for horizontal AI automation: P2P, claims, HR — not in theory, but in production.
• 01, 110: You know what it takes to scale with speed and intent. Early-stage leader in a growth company? Taken an analytics / modern consulting business from $x to $y Mn.
• You default to Build, not present; Solve, not posture; Deliver, not debate: Impact over optics and solving for real outcomes over ‘we’ve always done it this way.’