Freelance Senior Enterprise Architect Cloud & IAM

About this role

📋 Tasks and responsibilities We are looking for a Senior Cloud & Enterprise Architect to help shape and strengthen enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, and secure digital transformation initiatives. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on guidance for cloud and infrastructure decisions. The focus is on building resilient, scalable, and secure environments while ensuring alignment between technology choices and business objectives.

Enterprise Identity Consolidation: design and prepare a phased migration from fragmented legacy and multi-cloud identity providers towards a centralized IAM architecture, with attention to SSO, identity provider integration, Zero Trust principles, reduced authentication friction, and lower administrative overhead. Cloud Foundations & Governance: align cloud deployments with enterprise cloud foundations by establishing secure landing zones, governance standards, shared services models, infrastructure-as-code practices, and automated compliance controls.

Enterprise Architecture: define and support high-availability, hybrid, and multi-cloud target architectures in line with recognized enterprise architecture frameworks. Security & Infrastructure: contribute to architecture decisions covering ICT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and IT security. 📝 Your profile You are a senior Infrastructure Architect with strong experience in cloud and enterprise architecture. You hold the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.

You have proven experience in the design and/or implementation of IAM solutions in environments with at least 1000 users. You have completed at least one project in the last 5 years involving the design and/or deployment of a production-ready Cloud Landing Zone in the utility sector. You have solid experience with the conception and implementation of AWS and Azure cloud environments. You are familiar with modelling techniques and tools such as ArchiMate, TOGAF, UML, and Sparx EA .

You have strong knowledge of ICT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and IT security. You are fluent in English. You are fluent in French or Dutch, with at least passive knowledge of the other national language at B1 level. Completion of the team experience template is mandatory. ⚠️ This position is offered as a part-time freelance role (30%). Originally posted on Himalayas