Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

At Banner Life Insurance Company, we lead with heart and ambition. Every day, we transform purpose into progress, guided by our unwavering commitment to be better for our customers, clients, and communities, not just today but long-term as well. Our people are the driving force behind everything we achieve. Their passion, purpose, and pursuit of innovation empower us to deliver cutting-edge solutions that support those we serve, ensuring we are here for you, here for good and striving for better.

We're a forward-thinking company energized by our work and how we show up for one another. Our culture is built on meaningful impact and genuine enjoyment, because we believe great work and great experiences should go hand in hand.

By offering career development opportunities, comprehensive benefits, and programs that support your wellbeing, we help you thrive personally and professionally. We are here for you, here for good and here for better.

Banner Life has experienced significant growth over the past several years, driven by digital transformation and platform-led innovation. As we look ahead, we have an ambitious goal to more than triple our revenue over the next decade by expanding into new products, distribution channels, and customer experiences.

Technology & Transformation plays a central role in enabling this growth. Our infrastructure strategy is evolving from traditional operations to a scalable, cloud-enabled, intelligent, and resilient platform that can support exponential growth, security, and innovation.

Within this context, Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture is a critical capability. This role defines the future-state infrastructure architecture and ensures Network, Systems, Storage, Telecom, and Cloud capabilities evolve as an integrated platform, working closely with Cyber and Application Engineering rather than operating as disconnected technology domains.

The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving Banner Life's future-state infrastructure architecture across cloud, network, systems, storage, telecom, identity, observability, resiliency, and automation domains.

It also ensures infrastructure architecture anticipates business growth, increased digital transaction volumes, data growth, AI-enabled workloads, and new product and distribution capabilities.

The architect acts as the connective tissue across infrastructure domains, ensuring that modernization initiatives, platform roadmaps, standards, and major design decisions align to enterprise architecture, cyber security expectations, operational resilience, and long-term business scale.

In alignment with the Infrastructure RUN vs CHANGE operating model, this role is primarily accountable for the CHANGE / TRANSFORM architecture agenda. Managed service partners own day-to-day RUN execution, while this role defines the future-state architecture, engineering guardrails, and operational readiness criteria needed to ensure platforms are scalable, secure, supportable, and ready for operational handoff.

Architecture & Strategy

• Provide architectural direction and alignment across Senior Network, Systems, Storage, and Telecom Engineers to ensure domain roadmaps integrate into a cohesive enterprise infrastructure strategy.
• Partner with domain engineering leads to define "what good looks like" across infrastructure capabilities, including reference architectures, standards, patterns, and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Treat infrastructure capabilities as enterprise platforms, enabling reusable, scalable, secure, and standardized services across applications, data, business operations, and customer-facing capabilities.
• Ensure infrastructure strategy supports enterprise growth, resilience, security, customer experience, and operational scalability.
• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state infrastructure architecture documentation, including logical, physical, cloud, resiliency, and integration models.
• Define and maintain the hybrid cloud reference architecture covering identity, networking, security, management, and resiliency across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (cloud, AI, automation, security tools) for adoption within the insurance environment.
• Provide technical leadership across domains including cloud computing, data centers, networks, storage, virtualization, and security infrastructure.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams to translate business and technical requirements into end-to-end architectural solutions.
• Embed Zero Trust and identity-first design principles into all architectures, partnering closely with security and identity

Infrastructure Design & Transformation

• Provide architecture leadership for infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, data center optimization, disaster recovery planning, infrastructure…