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Cloud Architecture

Momentum Health -
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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Job Details

Permanent

Full Job Description

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Momentum Group, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members.

Disclaimer

As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page.

Role Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to define, lead, and execute the organization's long-term cloud transformation strategy. As a key member of the technology leadership team, the Cloud Architect will be responsible for designing and governing enterprise-scale cloud solutions across both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, supporting a workforce of approximately 4,000 employees.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap to migrate on-premises infrastructure, applications, and services to cloud-native platforms while ensuring security, resilience, scalability, operational excellence, and cost optimization. This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance business objectives, technology innovation, governance requirements, and operational realities.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of IT infrastructure, systems, or enterprise architecture experience.

Minimum 5 years of hands-on cloud architecture experience.

Demonstrated experience designing and operating enterprise environments in both AWS and Azure.

Proven experience leading large-scale cloud migration initiatives.

Experience migrating enterprise workloads from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms.

Experience managing hybrid cloud environments and cloud governance frameworks.

Experience with cloud security, compliance, and risk management.

Experience with vendor and stakeholder management at senior leadership level.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

The candidate must hold current certifications in both AWS and Microsoft Azure.
AWS Certifications

At least one of:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Preferred).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
Additional AWS certifications are advantageous:
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty.
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
Microsoft Azure Certifications

At least one of:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (Preferred)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
Additional Azure certifications are advantageous:
- Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.

Duties & Responsibilities

Cloud Strategy & Vision

Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud strategy and architecture roadmap.

Define the long-term target state architecture to achieve a fully cloud-based operating model.

Establish cloud adoption frameworks, migration methodologies, and governance standards.

Advise executive leadership on cloud opportunities, risks, investments, and emerging technologies.

Drive cloud-first and cloud-native principles across the organization.

Develop and maintain a 3–5 year cloud transformation roadmap aligned with business objectives.

Enterprise Architecture

Design enterprise-scale solutions spanning AWS and Azure environments.

Create architecture standards, reference architectures, patterns, and best practices.

Ensure alignment between cloud architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, and application strategies.

Review and approve cloud solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture standards.

Lead architecture governance boards and technical design reviews.

Cloud Migration Leadership

Assess existing on-premises infrastructure, applications, and workloads.

Define migration waves, prioritization models, and modernization strategies.

Lead migration planning and execution efforts.

Identify opportunities for rehosting, re-platforming, refactoring, or cloud-native transformation.

Manage technical risks associated with large-scale cloud migration programs.

Establish success metrics and KPIs for migration initiatives.

Security, Risk & Compliance

Design secure cloud architectures aligned with organizational security standards.

Ensure cloud environments meet regulatory, governance, and compliance requirements.

Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on identity management, network security, data protection, and monitoring.

Implement Zero Trust and security-by-design principles.

Maintain disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience strategies.

Cloud Operations & Optimization

Define operational models for cloud infrastructure management.

Establish monitoring, observability, automation, and incident response capabilities.

Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and platform automation.

Develop cloud financial management (FinOps) practices and cost optimization strategies.

Monitor cloud consumption trends and optimize resource utilization.

Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with business leaders, project teams, vendors, and technology stakeholders.

Provide architectural leadership to engineering, infrastructure, and development teams.

Mentor cloud engineers, architects, and technical specialists.

Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Competencies

Technical Competencies

Cloud Platforms

Strong expertise in:

AWS.

Azure.

Hybrid cloud architectures.

Multi-cloud strategy and governance.

Infrastructure

Enterprise networking.

DNS, load balancing, and traffic management.

Identity and access management.

Storage platforms.

Backup and disaster recovery.

Virtualization technologies.

Automation & DevOps

Infrastructure as Code.

CI/CD pipelines.

Configuration management.

Platform automation.

Git-based workflows.

Security

Zero Trust Architecture.

Cloud security posture management.

Identity federation.

Security monitoring and logging.

Encryption and key management.

Regulatory compliance frameworks.

Architecture Frameworks

Experience with:

TOGAF.

Enterprise Architecture governance frameworks.

Cloud Adoption Frameworks (AWS and Microsoft).

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