Lead Architect, Solution Architecture

What you'll do

• Design and publish reference architectures and reusable patterns for common enterprise scenarios like identity federation and secure data flows.
• Lead end-to-end architecture reviews to identify risks and drive documented decisions with cybersecurity and risk stakeholders.
• Establish scalable governance through self-service checklists and pre-review criteria to reduce rework and improve consistency.
• Co-lead an architecture council to maintain standards, decision records, and escalation paths for cross-cutting topics.
• Provide architectural direction for automation and AI initiatives ensuring alignment with secure-by-design principles.
• Define and track outcome-based metrics such as review cycle time, pattern reuse rates, and remediation throughput.
• Evaluate third-party products and services for architectural fit, security posture, and integration feasibility.
• Partner with delivery teams to drive the adoption of approved patterns into engineering workflows.

What we're looking for

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services cloud architecture and modern, secure API design.
• Proven track record producing reference architectures and reusable standards adopted by multiple teams.
• Experience partnering with cybersecurity, risk, and compliance stakeholders to reach documented outcomes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure architecture and security design principles in a multi-cloud context.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures while meeting security requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Experience with AI/ML platform architecture, agentic automation, or building and scaling an architecture practice (preferred).