Job title: Cloud Architect
Location: Onsite - either in
Chicago (111 South Wacker Drive) or
Jersey City (3 2nd St Harborside STE 301)
Employment type: Full time
We are seeking a qualified Cloud Architect. This role is responsible for performing the essential functions listed below and requires the skills and experience described.
Minimum qualifications- Proven experience delivering AI/Cloud FinOps engagements.
- Experience with AI cost governance or FinOps operating models.
- Strong understanding of AI cost drivers and token economics, including pricing, caching, model routing, and allocation.
- Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews and workshops across Finance, Engineering, and Risk functions.
- Experience designing RACI frameworks and decision-rights models.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
- Experience consolidating and reconciling cloud billing and usage data from multiple sources.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure, security, and cost optimization.
- Ability to provide technical guidance to development and engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Job responsibilities- Lead delivery of AI and Cloud FinOps initiatives, particularly governance and operating-model workstreams.
- Conduct structured stakeholder interviews and workshops with Finance, Engineering, Risk, and other cross-functional teams.
- Develop RACI frameworks, governance structures, and decision-rights models.
- Analyze and consolidate multi-source cloud billing and AI usage data into clean, reconcilable baselines.
- Apply knowledge of AI token economics, including pricing, caching, model routing, and allocation concepts.
- Provide guidance on AI and cloud cost governance, optimization, and accountability.
- Coordinate stakeholders and drive engagement activities through completion.
- Own regular client check-ins and communicate progress, findings, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Lead phase-end presentations and executive readouts.
- Support the design and implementation of cloud solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Ensure cloud solutions follow best practices for security, performance, compliance, and cost optimization.
Compensation: The anticipated base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $150,000 per year depending on experience, skills, location, and internal equity.
Benefits: Benefits for this position will likely include the following:
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Healthcare benefits.
- Dental benefits.
- Vision benefits.
- Disability insurance.
- Life insurance benefits.
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and a potential company match.
- Parental leave for both birthing (up to 14 weeks of paid leave) and non-birthing parents (up to 4 weeks paid leave), as well as adoption leave (up to 8 weeks of paid leave), subject to qualifications.
- Child hospitalization leave (up to 15 paid calendar days per year), subject to qualifications.
- "Be kind to yourself day" on your anniversary (subject to terms and conditions).
- Graduation and birthing gifts, subject to eligibility.
- Paid Jury duty (up to 4 weeks a year), subject to eligibility.
- Paid moving days (up to 2 days a year), subject to eligibility.
- Approximately 12 paid company holidays a year.
For additional information regarding benefits, please see the Globant Experience Guide .
Accommodations : If you have a need that requires an accommodation, please let us know by contacting the recruiting team at [insert email].
Remote work: Remote work permissibility is subject to change depending on business necessity. For additional questions regarding work locations please discuss with your hiring partner directly.
