Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS

Job Summary

This position is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. The role leads 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.

• Works across business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions, prioritizing functional and non‑functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap.
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap for 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 technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions.
• Supports the team in selecting the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products.
• Defines secure design patterns and reference architectures across public and private hybrid environments and multi‑tenant SaaS services.
• Drives zero‑trust aligned access architectures, ensuring cloud services are consumed securely, efficiently, and consistently.
• Standardizes architectures for secure cloud and SaaS enablement, security patterns for access, identity, workload protection, and cloud‑native controls.
• Serves as design authority across programs including application migration, platform modernization, and SaaS onboarding, providing reusable frameworks for policy enforcement, observability, and risk management.
• Partners with global information security, cloud engineering, application teams, and product stakeholders to align designs with strategy.
• Provides thought leadership, influences product direction, and ensures adoption of approved patterns.
• Acts as a 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.
• 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