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Cloud Architect jobs in Philadelphia, PA
Cloud architects design how an organization's systems run on platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP — balancing reliability, security, and cost, and guiding teams through migrations and growth.
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Industry/SectorNot ApplicableSpecialismFunctional & Industry TechnologiesManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryThe OpportunityAs a GIS DevSecOps Engineer, Senior Associate, you will engage in consultin…
$137.5k - $239k
goals. Supporting the capture of new business opportunities, architecting solutions, coordinating internal resources, and acting as a trusted... ..., VPN), managed mobility Solutions, data center outsourcing ( cloud, app…
-edge tech platforms, at scale.What You'll DoPrincipal AI Tech Architects at BCG Platinion are:Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary... ...safety, deployment strategies and governance.Understanding of cloud architect…
$110.7k - $218.3k
Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world... ...like before a single screen gets builtPartnering with solution architects and platform te…
DescriptionAt HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas t…
$94.4k - $141.6k
Partners, Line of Business and Pricing organizations to develop strategies. General understanding of Schneider Electric’s software, cloud analytics and services story for owners as it relates to their own digital and sus…
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Business Intelligence Architect to shape and advance enterprise reporting and analytics capabilities for a higher education environment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This role will…
$116.2k - $229.1k
a Senior Consultant in Engineering Foundry, AI & E/EaaS - DevOps, you will support the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud, automation, and platform engineering solutions across complex environments. This r…
DescriptionAt HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas t…
$215.1k - $384.4k
platform services.Apply healthcare integration patterns where appropriate, including HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, secure APIs, and cloud- native approaches.Use modern engineering practices, including Spec Driven D…
companies, mid-sized enterprises, and government agencies, a list that spans across the country. Job Description Cloud Architects at CapTech are called upon to perform various responsibilities within CapTech’s Systems In…
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What cloud architects earn in Philadelphia
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $50–$65 | $103k–$135k |
| Mid level | $65–$86 | $135k–$178k |
| Senior | $83–$114 | $173k–$238k |
Adjusted for the Philadelphia market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Deep AWS, Azure, or GCP expertiseArchitecture patterns and tradeoffsNetworking and security designInfrastructure as codeCost modeling and FinOpsMigration planningKubernetes and containersStakeholder communicationWriting architecture documents
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design a highly available architecture for a customer-facing web application.
Ask about requirements and budget first. Cover multi-AZ, load balancing, data replication, and failure modes — and say what you would deliberately not build at this scale.
How would you plan a migration from on-premises to the cloud?
Talk about assessment, choosing rehost versus refactor per workload, sequencing by risk, and running hybrid during the transition. Phased beats big-bang.
A team's cloud costs doubled in a quarter. How do you investigate?
Visibility first — cost explorer, tagging — then the usual suspects: data transfer, oversized instances, forgotten environments. Show you treat cost as an architectural property.
When would you advise against microservices?
Small teams, unclear domain boundaries, or operational immaturity. Arguing against a fashionable pattern with specifics is a strong signal for an architect.
How do you get engineering teams to actually follow your architecture?
Influence over mandate: reference architectures, paved-road templates, and review checkpoints. Acknowledge that unused architecture documents are a failure mode.
How do you design for disaster recovery, and how do you set RTO/RPO?
Explain that RTO/RPO are business decisions with price tags, then map them to backup, pilot-light, or active-active patterns. Mention actually testing the recovery.
Tell me about an architecture decision you got wrong.
Pick a real one, explain the reasoning at the time, and what your process learned from it. Architects who claim a clean record are not believed.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For cloud architects specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Anchor each role in scale and outcomes: workloads migrated, availability achieved, annual spend managed or reduced.
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List current professional-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect); they are near-mandatory screens for this title.
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Show breadth across compute, networking, data, and security — architecture hiring looks for T-shaped depth.
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Include the organizational side: teams guided, architecture reviews run, standards adopted.
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Name a migration or greenfield build you owned end to end; a single deep case study outweighs a list of services.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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Cloud Architect
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