Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS

Responsibilities

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, with 7+ years in architecture or senior engineering roles designing enterprise-scale systems
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience in at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Demonstrated experience designing large-scale, highly available, secure, and resilient platforms supporting mission-critical workloads
• Proven experience working in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, or similar)
• Track record of influencing architecture decisions across multiple lines of business or platforms
• SaaS platform integration, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
• Container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, ECS/AKS/GKE)
• Cloud networking (VPC/VNet design, segmentation, routing, private connectivity)
• Experience defining reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails for cloud and SaaS consumption
• Must have hands on experience Identity and Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federation, SSO)

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Techical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering