Senior Solutions Architect

## Senior Solutions Architect Apply locations:
Rosemont, ILtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
261096

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich.,

and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”## ## ## The Senior Cloud Architect helps to develop, maintain and govern Cloud architecture and the technology portfolio roadmaps across multiple Cloud application portfolios.

Work across all architectural disciplines, including business (processes/activities/functions/information), application, data, integration, infrastructure, security and technology, and creates and maintains related best practices, patterns and reference architectures.## ## The Senior Cloud Architect facilitates the development, implementation and maintenance of standards, guidelines and statements of direction for company IT system architectures, establishing a framework that constrains the design of systems for the purpose of integration of Hybrid Cloud systems and accessibility of data supporting various interdependent business processes and functions.

Works closely with applications system architects, data architects, network technologists, business analysts and other stakeholders to ensure consensus on direction, in line with global strategies for future integration. Focus is often on establishing and maintaining a reusable Cloud architectural blueprint to reduce business costs, improve time-to-market of products and services, improved product quality, and customer satisfaction.## ## Design, architect and implement new Cloud capabilities that address any gaps and provide integrated end to end scalable, enterprise-class services.

Has a proven capability to analyze existing products and infrastructure, understand how to leverage existing investments and introduce best of breed, emerging Cloud infrastructures:
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud computing services.## ## What You’ll Do* ## Architectural Blueprinting:
Lead the design of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems and ecosystems in AWS, Azure and GCP.* ## Cloud Strategy:
Develop and maintain the cloud roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices (Well-Architected Framework)* ## Governance & Compliance:
Establish guardrails for resource provisioning to ensure security compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, etc.) and operational consistency.* ## Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Drive the transition towards a fully automated environment using tools (e.g.  Terraform, Pulumi, or Cloud Formation) to eliminate manual configuration drift.* ## Migration Orchestration:
Lead the strategy for migrating legacy workloads to the cloud (Re-Hosting, Re-Platforming, and Re-Architecting).* ## CICD Integration:
Partner with Dev Ops teams to integrate architectural patterns into automated deployment pipelines.* ## Performance tuning:
Identify bottlenecks in current architecture and implement caching, CDN, and load-balancing strategies to optimize latency.* ## Technical leadership:
Act as final escalation point for complex cloud technical hurdles.* ## Stakeholder Communication:
Translate complex architectural decisions into business terms for C-suite executives and non-technical stakeholders.* ## Mentoring:
Level up our Cloud Engineers through design reviews, pair…