IT Cloud Solutions Architect Sr

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!

We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Scottsdale, AZ, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Dallas, TX

At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.

We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

About the Role:

IT Solutions Architect will own architectural responsibilities in defining and supporting the implementation of modern Infrastructure platforms, methodologies, programs, processes, standards, organization structure, metrics and approachee in support and growth of our business.

What You Will Do:

• Designs and implements information systems to advance and optimize the enterprise infrastructure. Analyzes system requirements and defines system architecture that will meet business needs, including network / storage / compute infrastructure, capacity planning, protocols, and systems security.
• Evaluates technology, market trends and industry plus identify prospective impact on business. Performs as sounding board as well as IT consultant and business leaders to develop IT infrastructure solutions. Promotes organization architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise information technology.
• Promotes organization architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise information technology
• Develops roadmap and implementation plan for infrastructure architecture on basis of IT strategies and business requirements. Defines and establishes a technical strategy, standards, and guidelines in the infrastructure architecture domain.
• Leads, directs and prepares governing principles to drive decision making pertinent to infrastructure architecture.
• Defines conceptual infrastructure architecture diagrams in support of large, complex, and cross capability-area initiatives. Defines, designs and documents services and interfaces and patterns with big picture awareness across the enterprise.
• Defines and implements Interfaces and integration architecture principles, standards, and patterns using established Enterprise Architecture governance processes and frameworks.
• Defines modern infrastructure architecture leveraging public cloud hosting services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and platforms such as AWS / AZURE / GCP along with Big Data and Micro Services capabilities.
• Collaborates, educates, and mentors architects and technical leaders across the firm on infrastructure architecture practices.
• Collaborates with business and IT partners to define transitional and target state infrastructure architectures.
• Collaborates within the enterprise architecture and information management team members to ensure a holistic, enterprise scale value delivery for the organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Typically 5+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.
• Prior experience architecting scalable, secure, and highly available technical solutions.
• Practical experience in strategizing and implementing hybrid, public and private cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) which includes costing models and experience optimizing network performance.
• Prior banking or financial services and products domain experience. We will consider experiences in similar or comparable domains as well.
• Prior experience designing and/or optimizing processes to ensure operational excellence.
• Multiple successes driving infrastructure and integration architecture in an agile/scrum environment.
• Experience successfully planning, influencing, and leading architecture initiatives across IT and business organizations and teams
• Strong organizational and communications skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead.
• Ability to collaborate.
• Ability to influence stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.

Salary range: $82,918.25 – $153,136.92

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.

Don’t have everything listed under qualifications? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single condition. At Pathward, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive culture of belonging, so 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.

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 are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.

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Applications will be accepted for a minimum of 3 days after posting, and there is no predetermined date by which applications should be submitted.