Modern Infrastructure and Security Architect - VP

About the role

We are looking for a talented and experienced Modern Infrastructure and Security Architect, Vice President who is collaborative, outcome-driven, and passionate about enabling secure, resilient, and scalable technology platforms across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the execution of modern infrastructure and cybersecurity architecture in partnership with Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS), Cloud Engineering, and platform teams across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Partner with EIS, Cloud Engineering, security engineering, product managers, architects, engineering leads, and risk stakeholders to identify, evaluate, incubate, and scale infrastructure and security capabilities across the enterprise.
• Maintain visibility into infrastructure and security capability gaps across all of the bank's technology pillars to help prioritize remediation, platform investment, and long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Establish and evolve target-state architectures, reference designs, and reusable patterns that enable secure, compliant, and scalable technology delivery.
• Support the rollout of shared platform and security capabilities through automation, infrastructure-as-code, and reliability-focused design principles aligned with SRE practices.
• Collaborate with business, risk, and compliance partners to translate regulatory and control requirements into practical, consumable architectural solutions.
• Act as a strategic architecture partner to EIS and Cloud Engineering, jointly shaping platform roadmaps, onboarding strategies, and security capabilities that balance enterprise standards with delivery realities.
• Drive integrations and tooling that improve security posture and operational resilience across both cloud and legacy environments.
• Influence the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities and intelligent automation, within established governance and risk frameworks.
• Promote modern engineering and operational practices that improve platform resilience, developer experience, and long-term maintainability.
• Clearly and concisquently communicate complex architectural, technical, and risk tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with and mentor architects and senior engineers, fostering strong architectural thinking, shared ownership, and cross-team alignment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure engineering, or security engineering, including enterprise-scale or platform-oriented solutions.
• Strong experience designing and governing solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or hybrid enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity architecture, risk management, and control-based design within regulated financial institutions.
• Experience working in close partnership with infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering organizations in a matrixed enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with modern automation, CI/CD enablement, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Working knowledge of modern AI and intelligent automation platforms and their architectural implications.
• Comfortable operating within Agile and hybrid delivery models across complex organizations.
• Ability to clearly and concisquently communicate complex technical, architectural, and organizational challenges and propose pragmatic, iterative solutions.
• Proven ability to balance security rigor, regulatory expectations, and business delivery needs.
• A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with a focus on enablement, reuse, and long-term sustainability.