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About the Role:
Owns architectural responsibilities in defining and supporting the implementation of modern cloud platform solutions, methodologies, processes, standards, organization structure, metrics and approaches in support and growth of our business.
What You Will Do:
- Drive the architectural effectiveness of technology solution-related initiatives for the cloud platform within the organization.
- Envision future state cloud architecture aligned with business objectives. Develop technology roadmaps to smoothly transition from the current state to the desired future state.
- Architects cloud platform solutions that address specific business capabilities and non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, compliance, and governance.
- Designs solutions to advance and optimize the enterprise infrastructure.
- Mentor, provide guidance, support design efforts, and establish standards for Product Engineering teams
- Evaluates cloud platform technology, market trends and industry and identifies opportunities for cost effectiveness, operational efficiency, and automation
- Promotes architecture process and results to organization inclusive of security, technology, and business leaders.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural best practices and standards.
- Collaborates closely with cloud platform technology leaders, including Cloud Automation Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers, and Cloud Operations Engineers
- Contributes to enterprise knowledge base, creating and updating articles on cloud and organizational standards, best-practices, and how-to guides to better serve the development teams.
- Creates logical architecture diagrams to support large, complex, and cross-capability area initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent education and work experience. Master's degree preferred.
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s or equivalent.
- Proficient with major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- 12+ years of varied experience implementing all aspects of solution architecture. Exposure to application development, integration, information management, infrastructure, and information security domains.
- 10+ years of complex enterprise experience leading architecture efforts. Subject matter expertise across varying technology and business disciplines.
- 10+ years of architecture scalable, secure, highly available, and fault tolerant technical solutions.
- 6+ years of major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- 6+ years of understanding of cloud security principles and practices, including secure software development, threat modeling, and incident response.
- 5+ years of banking or financial services and products domain experience. Comparable domain experience will also be considered.
- Proven success in planning, influencing, and leading architecture initiatives across IT and business organizations and teams.
The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.
Salary range: $86,000 – $145,000
The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.
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Don’t have everything listed under qualifications? If you’re excited about this role but your experiences don’t match exactly to everything in the posting, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other Pathward roles. Pathward is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers candidates for roles without regard to their race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or any other category protected by law.
Who we are:
Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.
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