Cloud Solutions Architect

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About the role

The Cloud Solutions Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development, mapping of business requirements to capability-oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the cloud architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

This Architect will own and drive the enterprise data streaming platform strategy, providing technical leadership across Kafka, Confluent, Kafka Connect, and emerging technologies such as Apache Flink. They will define the platform roadmap, ensure resiliency, security, governance, and compliance, and establish enterprise standards for event-driven architectures. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Kafka/Confluent, cloud and enterprise architecture, disaster recovery, observability, and security within regulated environments, along with strong stakeholder management skills to align architecture, engineering, operations, and risk teams while accelerating platform adoption and maturity.

Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end from conception, through delivery, into production of cloud solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Participates in the design and modeling of cloud architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable cloud architectural solution
• Collaborates on roadmaps to ensure enough architectural runway to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Promotes the reuse of services, components, frameworks, and infrastructure as code to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Supports team members on the design and deployment of cloud strategies and solutions
• Looks for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures, and vendor dependencies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Makes recommendations to improve application operational efficiency, enhance program usage, and increase understanding of the program
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Works closely with Enterprise and Business Solutions Architecture to ensure compliance with Regions' architectural principles and patterns
• Provides feedback to Enterprise and Business Solutions Architecture with respect to potential deviations from or necessary modifications to existing architectural principles and patterns
• Works closely with Cyber Security to understand network, application, and data security requirements
• Works with all stakeholders to understand non-functional requirements that may have a material impact on cloud solution architecture
• Works with software delivery teams to ensure that the cloud solutions are observable and secure by design
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Or a High School Diploma/GED and nine (9) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with Agile methods
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect Certification

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Advanced knowledge of cyber security design techniques
• Advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure, platforms, and cloud native serverless architectures (AWS, Azure a plus)
• Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
• Advanced understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift a plus)
• Knowledge of instrumentation, telemetry, and observability frameworks and platforms (OpenTelemetry, DynaTrace, Splunk a plus)
• Knowledge with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems like Salesforce
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Deep expertise in Kafka/Confluent, Kafka Streams/ksqlDB, and advanced event-streaming technologies
• Experience with data mesh architectures and streaming-first data platform strategies
• Strong stakeholder management skills to align architecture, engineering, operations, and risk teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Confluent Certified Administrator and/or Confluent Certified Developer certifications
• Experience leading large-scale platform transformations, migrations, or ownership transitions
• Prior partnership with Confluent or other strategic vendors to drive platform maturity and adoption
• Financial services or banking industry experience supporting highly regulated environments
• Demonstrated success enabling self-service adoption, developer onboarding, and enterprise-wide streaming platform evangelization

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is currently offsite, preferably close to a Regions office within our retail branch footprint. Associates will work from their home primarily and may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed.

Pay

Job Range Target Minimum: $126,178.25 USD
Median: $153,040.00 USD
This job may participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.

Benefits

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time.