Cloud Architect

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Department: Tech Transformation

Workplace: hybrid

Description

Cloud Architect - German Speaking

Senior Consultant / Principal level

Technology Transformation (Enterprise Technology) practice

About Us

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You will be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000+ employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

About Your Role

As a Cloud Architect within our Cloud & Infrastructure capability, you will lead and govern the migration, transformation and design of secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will set architectural direction and act as design authority for cloud-first, hybrid, and multi-cloud strategies aligned to business outcomes, regulatory requirements, and digital sovereignty considerations.

You will define enterprise-scale, cloud-native and AI-ready architectures supporting application platforms, data and AI workloads, and GenAI-enabled use cases. Working across strategy, target architectures, and delivery programmes, you will ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and operationally robust from design through implementation.

You will lead and assure architecture design across cloud landing zones, platform engineering, observability, cloud security, and cloud economics, working closely with senior client stakeholders, delivery leadership, hyperscaler partners, and Infosys Consulting specialists.

Key Responsibilities & Capabilities

• Lead cloud transformation initiatives, including migration assessments, discovery activities, and definition of target cloud architectures
• Define and govern enterprise cloud architecture standards and reference architecture across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud
• Act as design authority for complex cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud initiatives
• Lead the design of AI-ready and GenAI-enabled cloud architectures, including secure data platforms and scalable inference patterns
• Own cloud transformation assessments, defining target architectures, migration strategies, and phased roadmaps
• Apply and enforce Well-Architected, security-by-design, and cost-optimisation principles
• Engage confidently with senior client stakeholders, clearly articulating architectural options and trade-offs
• Contribute to proposals, offerings, and thought leadership within the Cloud & Infrastructure capability

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Extensive experience designing and governing cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Hands-on experience with enterprise cloud platforms, application architectures, and hybrid environments
• Professional-level cloud certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Exposure to platform engineering, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, networking, identity, and governance
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical senior stakeholders

Preferred / Desirable Experience

• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration and modernization programmes
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled and GenAI cloud architectures
•  Multi-cloud and hybrid architecture leadership experience

General Information

• Willingness and ability to travel across client sites within the EMEA region
• Fluent spoken and written English (additional languages advantageous depending on location)
• Fluent in German (at least at B1) is a must for the role

Personal Attributes

• Highly structured and strategic thinker
• Able to translate complex cloud architecture into clear, actionable guidance
• Strong collaborator and architectural leader
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving and ambiguous transformation contexts
• Committed to high standards of quality, integrity, and professionalism
  

Given that this is just a short snapshot of the role we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements listed above. We are looking for team members who strive to make an impact and are eager to learn.

Benefits

Join our growing Cloud & Infrastructure capability within Technology Transformation Consulting and help organisations modernise their technology foundations. Our team focuses on Cloud Transformation, Platform Engineering, Cloud-native and AI-ready Architecture, Monitoring & Observability, Architecture Assurance, and Cloud Economics.

We operate at the intersection of strategy and execution—defining target architectures, governance models, and delivery roadmaps while supporting implementation and assurance. As part of this team, you will contribute to high-impact transformations across EMEA, including large-scale cloud migrations and AI-enabled platform design.

This is a team that values structured thinking, technical mastery, and practical delivery. You will have the opportunity to grow your cloud architecture career while shaping market-leading cloud and AI-ready offerings.

About Infosys Consulting

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.