Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement
Full Time, Exempt Position
Remote
If you are a forward-thinking technology professional interested in cloud architecture, enterprise integration, and digital transformation, we invite you to explore this opportunity! We are seeking a pragmatic and collaborative Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement to join the Vantage Elevation technology team.
You will play a key role in designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions that advance our cloud and digital transformation strategy while connecting business needs with enterprise applications, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and external technology partners.
About Us
Vantage Elevation, LLC is an independent, industry-leading manufacturer of elevator components and systems with a long history of innovation and reliability. Founded in 1899, Vantage employs more than 1,000 people across manufacturing sites and offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Through its family of brands, GAL Manufacturing, GAL Canada, Hollister-Whitney, Elevator Controls, Courion, Bore-Max, Thames Valley Controls, and Vertical Dimensions, Vantage supports nearly every electro-mechanical device used in modern elevators.
Vantage's mission is to safely connect people and communities by providing reliable elevator solutions. We support our teams, work closely with our customers, and hold ourselves to a high standard of quality, safety, and service.
Position Summary
The Solution Architect - Cloud Enablement is responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions. This role translates business and technical requirements into practical solution designs, establishes cloud architecture standards, and helps ensure that new and existing technologies integrate effectively across the enterprise.
The successful candidate will combine strong cloud architecture expertise with a practical understanding of legacy systems, enterprise applications, data platforms, integration, security, and operational requirements.
Responsibilities
- Cloud Architecture and Enablement
- Develop cloud solution architectures aligned with the company's business strategy, technology roadmap, security requirements, and financial objectives.
- Design secure and scalable cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises solutions.
- Establish reusable cloud architecture patterns, reference designs, standards, and implementation guardrails.
- Evaluate workloads and recommend appropriate migration approaches, including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, replacing, retaining, or retiring applications.
- Support cloud landing zones, network architecture, identity and access management, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and governance capabilities.
- Promote the effective use of cloud-native services, automation, infrastructure as code, containers, APIs, and managed services where appropriate.
- Solution Design and Integration
- Translate business, application, data, infrastructure, and security requirements into comprehensive solution designs.
- Develop architecture diagrams, data flows, integration patterns, interface specifications, deployment models, and implementation roadmaps.
- Ensure cloud solutions integrate effectively with ERP, CPQ, CRM, manufacturing, financial, data, analytics, and other enterprise platforms.
- Define integration approaches using APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, batch processing, and other appropriate technologies.
- Identify architectural dependencies, technical constraints, implementation risks, and required remediation activities.
- Ensure solutions are supportable, maintainable, resilient, and appropriately documented.
- Data and Analytics Enablement
- Partner with data and analytics teams to design cloud-based data platforms, data pipelines, data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, and business intelligence environments.
- Support the secure movement of data between on-premises applications and cloud platforms.
- Help define architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic models, reporting, advanced analytics, and AI use cases.
- Ensure data solutions address security, lineage, data quality, retention, scalability, and governance requirements.
- Support the integration of operational and financial data across multiple enterprise systems.
- Security, Governance, and Risk Management
- Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and risk-management requirements into solution designs.
- Apply secure-by-design principles across identity, network, application, infrastructure, and data architecture.
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to define appropriate controls for access, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards and cloud governance policies.
- Participate in architecture reviews, technology evaluations, design approvals, and risk assessments.
- Delivery and Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural guidance throughout the full solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
- Collaborate with project managers, business leaders, application owners, infrastructure teams, developers, data engineers, cybersecurity resources, and third-party providers.
- Review technical deliverables and confirm that implementations remain consistent with approved designs.
- Facilitate design workshops and communicate technical concepts to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Identify trade-offs among cost, speed, complexity, security, scalability, and business value.
- Provide technical leadership without becoming a bottleneck to delivery.
- Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex cross-platform issues.
- Vendor and Technology Management
- Evaluate cloud platforms, software products, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
- Participate in vendor selection, technical due diligence, requests for proposal, statements of work, and solution reviews.
- Validate vendor recommendations and ensure proposed designs align with enterprise standards and business requirements.
- Help manage architectural dependencies across multiple vendors and concurrent transformation initiatives.
- Monitor cloud consumption and recommend opportunities to improve performance, licensing, and operating costs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Seven or more years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, application development, systems integration, cloud engineering, or a related field.
- Three or more years of direct experience designing and implementing cloud or hybrid-cloud solutions.
- Demonstrated experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise applications and on-premises systems.
- Understanding of APIs, middleware, data integration, application integration, and modern integration patterns.
- Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision documents, and implementation roadmaps.
- Experience working across infrastructure, application, data, cybersecurity, and business teams.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to executive and business audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Microsoft Entra ID, or related Microsoft technologies.
- Experience with manufacturing, distribution, industrial services, or private-equity-backed organizations.
- Knowledge of ERP, CPQ, CRM, product lifecycle management, manufacturing execution, supply chain, and financial systems.
- Experience modernizing or integrating legacy enterprise applications.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud automation.
- Understanding of data lakehouse, semantic-layer, master-data-management, data-governance, and AI architecture concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud cost-management and FinOps practices.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certification, such as Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or TOGAF.
Core Competencies
- Enterprise and solution architecture
- Cloud and hybrid-cloud design
- Business and technology alignment
- Systems and data integration
- Security-by-design
- Technical problem-solving
- Architecture governance
- Vendor and partner management
- Executive communication
- Cross-functional leadership
- Practical decision-making
- Financial and commercial awareness
Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $160,000–$230,000 annually, based on location and experience. The upper end of the range is generally reserved for candidates who bring extensive directly relevant experience and demonstrate a high level of proficiency across the key requirements of the role.
Benefits of Working With Us
- Competitive salary and annual incentive opportunity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Professional development and growth opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer
Vantage Elevation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
