Lead Systems Architect – SaaS & Cloud Security

Wells Fargo & Company•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Architect to strengthen and sustain our SaaS security architecture and enterprise threat modeling capabilities. This role plays a foundational part in securing enterprise SaaS services and advising technology leaders through complex risk and architecture decisions. You will partner closely with architecture, engineering, and risk teams to deliver threat models, security assessments, and architectural guidance that directly informs how technology is designed, approved, and deployed. This role is in the office three days a week and a hybrid position. The role is seated in the cities posted on the req. There is no visa sponsorship or visa transfers for this role. If you enjoy working at the intersection of cloud-scale platforms, real enterprise risk, and executive-level impact, this role delivers all three. You’ll shape how core SaaS platforms are securely onboarded and operated across a large, complex enterprise—your work directly influencing production readiness, remediation priorities, and risk decisions at the CIO and line-of-business level. This role steps into critical ownership of SaaS and cloud security architecture, continuing high-impact work across platforms like Microsoft 365, developer tooling, and key business systems. You’ll be trusted as a security authority whose work directly informs how enterprise technology moves to production. This position offers strong visibility with senior technology leaders, including CIO-aligned teams and enterprise architecture stakeholders. The scope and impact of the work provide opportunities to broaden influence across multiple domains, shape long-term architecture strategy, and deepen expertise in enterprise-scale SaaS and cloud security.

Requirements

5+ years of Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education

Nice To Haves

SaaS security architecture (enterprise-scale platforms)
Hands-on experience leveraging Generative AI to accelerate secure-by-design architectures, evaluate solution designs, propose risk-reducing controls, and improve automation and operational efficiency
Familiarity with agentic AI concepts, including agents used to orchestrate workflows and system interactions
Cloud security architecture (Azure, AWS, and/or GCP)
Enterprise threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE, ATT&CK)
Identity and access management (SSO, federation, privileged access)
Data protection controls (encryption, DLP, key management)
Secure SaaS onboarding and shared-responsibility models
API, integration, and platform security
CI/CD and developer tooling security
Zero Trust architecture concepts
Security risk assessment and remediation planning

Responsibilities

Lead complex projects and initiatives with companywide scope and visibility
Create and contribute to architectural artifacts for key technology initiatives
Help define future-state technology architecture and strategy
Identify initiatives with medium to high architectural impact
Conduct in-depth technology and system assessments to shape architecture solutions
Communicate enterprise architecture strategy to both technical teams and leadership
Make decisions related to the development and maintenance of architectures
Apply compliance and risk management requirements across supported areas
Ensure solutions align with Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies, and industry best practices
Collaborate across teams to resolve issues and deliver secure, scalable outcomes
Identify and account for AI model limitations, security risks, operational constraints, and misuse scenarios in architecture decisions