Senior Vice President, Cloud Transformation – Architecture

Acxiom

. Lead Acxiom’s multi-year modernization of its on-premises technology estate .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • New York • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in multi-cloud architecture and transformation, with a strong focus on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven ability to lead large-scale modernization initiatives, ensuring compliance, security, and operational readiness while managing complex data environments.

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Multi-Cloud ArchitectureCloud Security and ComplianceInfrastructure as CodeData Center ModernizationExecutive Leadership

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Hard Skills

Cloud EconomicsData Architecture ModernizationCI/CDContainer PlatformsData AnalyticsMachine Learning InfrastructureTransformation Business CasesVendor NegotiationsOperational ReadinessDisaster Recovery

Soft Skills

Executive CommunicationTeam LeadershipOrganizational Change Management

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureGCPObservability ToolsPolicy as Code

Industry Keywords

Data PrivacyRegulatory ComplianceHigh-Volume Data ProcessingConsumer ServicesMarketing Agency

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Acxiom’s multi-year modernization of its on-premises technology estate
Own the multi-cloud target-state architecture and transformation execution
Lead architecture, engineering, operations, migration delivery, and program management teams
Set the transformation strategy and establish a sequenced, multi-year modernization plan
Build the business case and drive workload disposition decisions across retire, rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace
Define workload placement principles across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Own the integrated roadmap, funding, governance, and executive reporting
Sequence migration waves based on dependencies, data gravity, business criticality, readiness, and risk
Protect service quality and client commitments through rollback, disaster recovery, observability, and operational readiness
Build a secure multi-cloud foundation spanning identity, networking, policy, encryption, observability, resilience, and automated provisioning
Drive infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, container platforms, and platform engineering practices
Set standards for cloud-native architecture and manage performance, data residency, portability, provider concentration, and total cost of ownership
Move data analytics platforms and machine learning workloads to appropriate cloud architectures
Establish governance for data movement, lineage, quality, access, privacy, and model operations
Build security, privacy, resilience, and regulatory compliance into architecture and delivery
Protect sensitive consumer and client data throughout migration and provide control-effectiveness evidence to clients and auditors
Deliver migration waves, financial commitments, and data center exit or consolidation milestones
Reduce legacy infrastructure, technical debt, and stranded contracts through verifiable decommissioning
Improve cloud cost and unit-cost performance, availability, security, audit readiness, and engineering capability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant executive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data platforms, or technology transformation
Direct accountability for at least one large, multi-year data center modernization or exit, leading across business units, vendors, and geographies
Executive-level knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP
Knowledge of modern platform engineering, including containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability
Experience modernizing enterprise data architecture, including batch and real-time processing, analytics platforms, and AI/ML infrastructure
Strong command of cloud economics, transformation business cases, vendor negotiations, budgets, and FinOps
Experience with cloud security, privacy, resilience, compliance, and audit in an environment managing sensitive data
Record of building senior teams, leading through organizational resistance, and communicating with the board, executives, clients, and engineers
Preferred: transformation leadership at large global consumer, retail, marketing, data services, or similarly complex enterprises with high-volume data processing and material privacy obligations
Preferred: experience structuring partnerships with AWS, Azure, and GCP and managing systems integrators
Preferred: prior experience in the marketing agency business or understanding of its products, clients, operating environment, and culture

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunity employer protections, including disability and protected veteran status
Remote/homebased work arrangement
Remote work may be considered for applicants in listed states/localities under applicable equal pay or pay transparency laws