The Lead Domain Architect role is responsible for integrating leading technologies in the design of complex technology solutions within a specific domain, while considering business goals, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability. The incumbent will provide strategic direction, training and mentoring to various stakeholders across the business in the IT-aligned business functional areas using their deep expertise in their specific domain. The role will lead the architecture and development of solutions aligned with the overall business and technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring business functional outcomes are achieved and the architectural runway is in place at the functional level. The incumbent will foster collaboration among stakeholders to understand business needs and implement the best solutions to meet their needs, while ensuring alignment with overall IT strategy and roadmap.
Integrate and refine architecture designs that are aligned to the organization's business goals (e.g., speed, reliability, scalability)
Leverage expertise in domain-driven design principals to improve upon conceptual and logical models and advocate for their organization-wide adoption in adherence to architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
Create detailed execution plans to implement recommendations for solution designs and ensure consistency and compliance with architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
Foster collaboration among various stakeholders across the business, ensuring seamless communication and alignment of architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks in a unified manner
This role is not remote/ hybrid and will report to Sherwin-Williams Global Headquarters located at 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or in lieu of a degree, at least 13 years of experience in IT
Skills and Experience Required
Extensive knowledge of existing and emerging enterprise architecture principles, policies, standards, and frameworks
Preferred
Extensive experience designing and leading hybrid and multi cloud architectures across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including landing zones, network connectivity, identity integration, and shared services models
Demonstrated expertise architecting cloud native and Kubernetes platforms, including AKS, Rancher, and OKE, with supporting capabilities such as container lifecycle management, GitOps/CI CD automation, backup, and observability
Strong background in cloud service enablement and automation, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to standardize provisioning, accelerate delivery, and enforce architectural standards
Proven leadership in cloud cost management and FinOps practices, incorporating tools such as Azure Cost Management and Apptio Cloudability to drive financial accountability, optimization, and business-aligned consumption
Hands-on experience defining cloud resilience, backup, and disaster recovery strategies, including workload replication, database protection, and recovery automation to meet availability, performance, and risk objectives
Ability to serve as a cloud domain authority, shaping cloud strategy, reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps while mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise adoption of secure, scalable cloud platforms aligned to business outcome
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