Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS

Bank of America•Chandler, AZ

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This 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. The Senior Architect – Cloud & SaaS defines secure design patterns and reference architectures across Public and Private Hybrid environments and multi-tenant SaaS services. The role drives zero trust aligned access architectures and ensure cloud services are consumed securely, efficiently, and consistently. Standardize architectures for secure cloud and SaaS enablement, security patterns for access, identity, workload protection, and cloud native controls. Design authority across programs including application migration, platform modernization and SaaS onboarding. 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 mentor to engineering and security teams, embedding “secure by design” principles across delivery.

Requirements

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, CloudFormation)
Container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, 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
Must have hands on experience Identity and Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federation, SSO)
Proven ability to act as a technical authority and advisor for senior engineering leaders and executives

Nice To Haves

Analytical Thinking
Architecture Result Orientation
Solution Design
Technical Strategy Development
Application Development
Collaboration
Data Management
DevOps Practices
Risk Management
Agile Practices
Automation
Influence
Solution Delivery Process
Test Engineering

Responsibilities

Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of 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 the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products