Chief Architect

Over the past two years, Zema Global has accelerated its growth through strategic investment and acquisition to strengthen our global leadership. Together we’re helping our customers gain a Decisioning Advantage – one bold idea at a time. With a presence across global energy, commodity, and financial markets, Zema Global empowers customers to simplify complexity, reduce risk and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results.Job DetailsLocation: Remote (USA)Position Type: Full-time, PermanentWork model: Remote (USA)Industry: Commodities & EnergyPosition Overview The Chief Architect is responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end technology architecture for the organization, with a focus on cloud-native platforms. A key attribute of this role is the ability to work successfully with the senior product and technology leadership at Zema to ensure there is alignment on approaches taken and decisions made.Key Responsibilities Define and own the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and roadmaps, with emphasis on cloud-native and AI-native capabilities.Lead the design of target-state architectures covering application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.Establish reference architectures and patterns for cloud-native microservices, event-driven systems, and data-centric workloads.Partner with senior business and technology leaders to translate strategy into executable architecture initiatives and investment plans.Drive the modernization of legacy systems into cloud-native, API-first, and containerized services where possible.Understand Fin Ops practices—embedding cost awareness into engineering and architectural decisions, work with Corp. IT and Finance to track costs in detail and make technical decisions that balance performance with efficiency across compute, storage, and data transfer.Provide architectural governance for major programs and projects, including design reviews, risk assessments, and decision‑making on key technology choices.Mentor architects and senior engineers across product teams; foster a strong architecture community and engineering culture.Evaluate emerging technologies and advise on their strategic fit.Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security requirements in all architectures, particularly for data and AI usage.Define and maintain global reference architectures spanning multiple product lines and platforms.Design and guide distributed, multi‑region systems supporting high availability and performance.Provide architectural guidance on cross‑product initiatives, integrations, and shared services.Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed privacy and regulatory requirements by design.Evaluate and guide adoption of shared technologies and platforms.Required Qualifications 15+ years of progressive experience in software architecture or solution architecture, product delivery and design experience including 15+ years in a senior technology leadership or chief architect role.Proven experience designing and delivering large‑scale cloud‑native systems on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).Experience designing and governing architectures across multiple products or platforms.Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event‑driven architectures, and APIs.Hands‑on experience with mapping platform architectures to one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.Experience designing for scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and performance.Solid understanding of security architecture and compliance‑aware design.Strong communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders.

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