Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Summary

We are building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people can bring their best and work for the best. The Cloud Solution Architect will help lead the technology strategy for BOK Financial, aligning technology solutions with business objectives, mitigating risks, and guiding cloud adoption across the enterprise.

• Lead the design of cloud-native and hybrid architectures for application migration, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and platform capabilities.
• Work closely with application owners to assess workloads, define migration strategies, and guide implementation.
• Partner with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to ensure comprehensive and compliant solutions.
• Support the Cloud Director in platform design discussions, POCs, and technology evaluations to enhance our AWS and Azure environments.
• Leverage tools such as Policy-as-Code, Infrastructure Templates, and Workflow Automation to ensure repeatable and governed deployments.
• Integrate observability tools and dashboards to ensure visibility into cloud operations and application performance.
• Create solution documentation and contribute to self‑service catalogs to empower teams with reusable patterns and templates.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in a technology field or 10+ years of related IT experience.

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect
• Azure Architect Expert
• or equivalent required

Key Skills

• Cloud Architecture & Migration Strategy
  • Deep understanding of cloud‑native and hybrid architectures.
  • Ability to assess legacy applications and design migration paths (rehost, refactor, rearchitect).
  • Experience with multi‑cloud environments (AWS primary, Azure secondary).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Proficiency in Terraform IAC.
  • Experience creating reusable infrastructure modules and templates.
  • Familiarity with remote state management and automated pre/post checks.
• CI/CD & Workflow Automation
  • Expertise in building repeatable pipelines using Gitlab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or Github Actions.
  • Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and advanced workflow orchestration.
• Security & Governance
  • Experience with Policy‑as‑Code frameworks (Open Policy Agent, Sentinel).
  • Integration of Secrets Management tools like AWS Secrets Manager with OIDC authentication.
  • Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Monitoring & Observability
  • Familiarity with tools for unified observability, dependency mapping, and service topology.
  • Ability to design and implement dashboards and visualization tools for cloud operations.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Strong communication skills to work across Lines of Business, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions, present solution designs, and influence decision‑making.
• Cloud Platform Engineering
  • Hands‑on experience with Cloud Landing Zone design and evolution.
  • Participation in POCs and technology evaluations to enhance platform capabilities.

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