Senior Vice President, Cloud Transformation – Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Spearhead Acxiom’s extensive modernization initiative for its on-premises technological infrastructure.

• Oversee the architecture and execution of the multi-cloud target-state transformation.

• Direct teams involved in architecture, engineering, operations, migration delivery, and program management.

• Establish the transformation strategy and create a sequenced, multi-year modernization roadmap.

• Develop the business case and guide workload disposition decisions for retiring, rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and replacing workloads.

• Define principles for workload placement across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Manage the integrated roadmap, funding, governance, and executive-level reporting.

• Plan migration waves based on dependencies, data gravity, business criticality, readiness, and risk factors.

• Ensure service quality and uphold client commitments by implementing rollback, disaster recovery, observability, and operational readiness protocols.

• Establish a secure multi-cloud infrastructure that encompasses identity management, networking, policy enforcement, encryption, observability, resilience, and automated provisioning.

• Promote practices such as infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, container platforms, and platform engineering.

• Set benchmarks for cloud-native architecture while managing performance, data residency, portability, provider concentration, and total cost of ownership.

• Transition data analytics platforms and machine learning workloads to suitable cloud architectures.

• Create governance frameworks for data movement, lineage, quality, access, privacy, and model operations.

• Integrate security, privacy, resilience, and regulatory compliance into architecture and delivery processes.

• Safeguard sensitive consumer and client data throughout the migration process, providing evidence of control effectiveness to clients and auditors.

• Achieve migration waves, financial commitments, and milestones related to data center exits or consolidations.

• Minimize legacy infrastructure, technical debt, and stranded contracts through accountable decommissioning.

• Enhance cloud cost efficiency, unit-cost performance, availability, security, audit readiness, and engineering capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive executive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud technologies, data platforms, or technology transformation initiatives.

• Proven track record of direct accountability for at least one significant, multi-year data center modernization or exit project, leading cross-functional business units, vendors, and geographical teams.

• Executive-level expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Familiarity with modern platform engineering, including containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability.

• Experience in modernizing enterprise data architecture, encompassing batch and real-time processing, analytics platforms, and AI/ML infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of cloud economics, transformation business cases, vendor negotiations, budgeting, and FinOps.

• Background in cloud security, privacy, resilience, compliance, and audit processes in environments handling sensitive data.

• Proven ability to build senior teams, navigate organizational resistance, and effectively communicate with boards, executives, clients, and engineers.

• Preferred: Leadership experience in transformation at large global consumer, retail, marketing, data services, or similarly complex organizations with significant data processing and privacy obligations.

• Preferred: Experience in structuring partnerships with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and managing systems integrators.

• Preferred: Previous experience in the marketing agency sector or a solid understanding of its products, clients, operating environment, and culture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Protections as an equal opportunity employer, including provisions for disability and protected veteran status.

• Flexible remote or home-based work arrangement.

• Consideration for remote work applications from candidates in listed states/localities, adhering to applicable equal pay or pay transparency laws.