Enterprise Solution Architect

About this job opportunity

Our Vision To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.

Our Mission Empowering global work forces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.

Our People Our fundamental beliefs at Cloud Pay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.

What makes this role exciting

The Security Architect is a critical leadership role ensuring that our technology, cloud platform, and global operations are secured by design, comply with rigorous global standards, and are guided by a robust security program.

Cloud Pay is seeking an experienced Security Architect to play a strategic role in shaping and governing the security architecture of its global, cloud native payroll and payments platform. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural governance and leadership responsibilities.

The Enterprise Security Architect will be accountable for defining security architecture across identity and access management, AWS and Azure cloud environments, and AI enabled services, while also providing formal architectural assurance through chairing the Architecture Review Board (ARB). The role will further act as a senior delegate for the Chief Security & Risk Officer, representing security at the Responsible AI & Ethics Committee.

Main responsibilities

Security Architecture & Strategy Define and maintain Cloud Pay’s security architecture vision, principles, standards, and roadmaps.

Ensure security architecture aligns with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and risk appetite.

Design secure, scalable patterns for APIs, data platforms, AI workloads, and cloud‑native services.

Provide authoritative security architecture guidance across engineering, platform, and data teams.

Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Own the security architecture for workforce and customer identity platforms.

Drive adoption of zero trust principles, strong authentication, least privilege access, and secure identity lifecycle management.

Provide architectural oversight for single sign‑on, federation, privileged access management, and conditional access controls.

Define and assess future operating models to ensure robust lifecycle management for Identity & Access management exists for Cloud Pay globally.

Collaborate closely with Identity Partners to ensure design and technologies align to Cloud Pay’s 3- A’s strategy which includes Automation, API’s and AI.Cloud Security (AWS & Azure)
Lead security architecture across AWS and Azure, including identity, networking, encryption, monitoring, and workload protection.

Define security guardrails and reference designs using cloud‑native services and infrastructure‑as‑code.

Support secure migration, modernization, and continuous improvement of cloud platforms.

Ensure continues best practice security principles are applied to cloud platforms deployed by Cloud Pay and ensure any remediation activities are prioritized by adopting a risk-based approach.

AI & Emerging Technology Security Design and review security controls for AI/ML systems, including training data protection, model integrity, access control, and inference security working in conjunction with compliance, security and data privacy teams to ensure controls are appropriate and effective to ensure customer, employee and commercially sensitive data has confidentiality, integrity and availability maintained.

Assess and advise on risks associated with generative AI, third‑party AI platforms, and internal AI use cases.

Support responsible, ethical, and compliant adoption of AI technologies from a security and risk perspective.

Architecture Governance & Assurance Chair the Security Architecture Review Board (SARB), ensuring…