Vice President, Enterprise & Cloud Architecture Greater St. Petersburg, FL Area

The Company is seeking a Vice President of Enterprise and Cloud Architecture to define its hybrid and multicloud target architecture, workload-placement standards, landing zones, data center modernization roadmap, and resiliency strategy. The role will guide cloud adoption while balancing cost, regulatory requirements, data residency, and business continuity. Responsibilities include setting infrastructure standards, planning and sequencing migrations, embedding FinOps principles, and leading architecture reviews for major platform decisions. The leader will also use AI-assisted tools hands-on to accelerate architecture and migration work, shape infrastructure for AI workloads, and advise executives on technology strategy and investment. Candidates should bring more than 15 years of hands-on experience in cloud and infrastructure architecture, spanning public cloud, data centers, networking, storage, and resiliency, along with experience leading a large migration or data center exit. A background operating internet-scale or highly regulated, always-on infrastructure is expected. Applicants should be proficient in writing and reviewing infrastructure as code and regularly use AI coding agents or similar tools in their work. A bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science is required; TOGAF and professional-level AWS or Azure certifications are preferred.

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Raymond James