Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS

Senior Architect – Cloud & SaaS

Lead the network security architecture for cloud platforms and SaaS consumption, ensuring that enterprise workloads can adopt modern delivery models without compromising on security, user experience or operational integrity.

• Work across 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 support the technology roadmap.
• Contribute to the creation of the architecture roadmap for defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and develop best practices, including standardized templates.
• Clarify the architecture, assist with system design to support implementation, and provide solution options to resolve any architectural impediments.
• Facilitate solution‑driven discussions, lead the design of complex architectures, and find creative solutions through domain knowledge, practical experiments and proof of concepts, while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular and adaptable.
• Educate team members on technology practices, standardization strategies and best practices to create innovative solutions.
• Support the team in selecting the technology stack required for solutions and help select preferred technology products.
• Define secure design patterns and reference architectures across Public and Private Hybrid environments and multi‑tenant SaaS services.
• Drive zero trust‑aligned access architectures and ensure cloud services are consumed securely, efficiently and consistently.
• Standardize architectures for secure cloud and SaaS enablement, security patterns for access, identity, workload protection, and cloud‑native controls.
• Provide design authority across programs including application migration, platform modernization and SaaS onboarding.
• Develop reusable frameworks for policy enforcement, observability and risk management.
• Partner with global information security, cloud engineering, application teams and product stakeholders to align designs with strategy.
• Provide thought leadership, influence product direction and ensure adoption of approved patterns.
• Act as mentor to engineering and security teams, embedding “secure by design” principles across delivery.

• 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.
• Experience with SaaS platform integration, including vendor evaluation, onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation).
• Container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, Open Shift, 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.
• Hands‑on experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federation, SSO).
• Proven ability to act as a technical authority and advisor for senior engineering leaders and executives.

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Dev Ops Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery
• Process Test Engineering
• Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
• Hours Per Week: 40