Senior Architect Cloud & Saas

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Chandler, AZ

Senior Architect responsible for defining the network security architecture for cloud platforms and SaaS consumption, ensuring secure adoption of modern delivery models. This role involves defining target operating environments, designing for resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements, with a focus on zero trust aligned access architectures and secure cloud/SaaS enablement.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
  4. 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
  5. Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

Skills

Required

  • 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 have

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Design
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Application Develop

What the JD emphasized

  • network security architecture
  • cloud platforms
  • SaaS consumption
  • enterprise workloads
  • security
  • user experience
  • operational integrity
  • architectural vision
  • strategic outcomes
  • Business' Products and Services
  • target operating environment
  • client resiliency
  • solution design
  • non-functional requirements
  • stakeholders
  • service providers
  • Business' strategic objectives
  • strategic design decisions
  • architecture roadmap
  • network security
  • cloud platforms
  • SaaS consumption
  • enterprise workloads
  • modern delivery models
  • security
  • user experience
  • operational integrity
  • architectural vision
  • strategic outcomes
  • Business' Products and Services
  • target operating environment
  • client resiliency
  • solution design
  • non-functional requirements
  • stakeholders
  • service providers
  • Business' strategic objectives
  • strategic design decisions
  • architecture roadmap
  • secure design patterns
  • reference architectures
  • Public and Private Hybrid environments
  • multi-tenant SaaS services
  • zero trust aligned access architectures
  • cloud services
  • securely
  • efficiently
  • consistently
  • Standardize architectures
  • secure cloud and SaaS enablement
  • security patterns
  • access
  • identity
  • workload protection
  • cloud native controls
  • Design authority
  • application migration
  • platform modernization
  • SaaS onboarding
  • Reusable frameworks
  • policy enforcement
  • observability
  • risk management
  • global information security
  • cloud engineering
  • application teams
  • product stakeholders
  • designs
  • strategy
  • thought leadership
  • product direction
  • adoption
  • approved patterns
  • mentor
  • engineering and security teams
  • secure by design principles
  • delivery
  • progressive IT experience
  • architecture
  • senior engineering roles
  • enterprise-scale systems
  • hands-on cloud architecture experience
  • major public cloud platform
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • designing large-scale
  • highly available
  • secure
  • resilient platforms
  • mission‑critical workloads
  • regulated environments
  • financial services
  • banking
  • insurance
  • healthcare
  • similar
  • influencing architecture decisions
  • multiple lines of business
  • platforms
  • SaaS platform integration
  • vendor evaluation
  • onboarding
  • lifecycle management
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
  • ARM
  • CloudFormation
  • Container platforms
  • orchestration
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • ECS/AKS/GKE
  • Cloud networking
  • VPC/VNet design
  • segmentation
  • routing
  • private connectivity
  • defining reference architectures
  • design patterns
  • guardrails
  • cloud and SaaS consumption
  • hands on experience Identity and Access Management
  • IAM
  • RBAC
  • federation
  • SSO
  • technical authority
  • advisor
  • senior engineering leaders
  • executives