Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect serves as a senior technical leader responsible for solving complex technology challenges, guiding enterprise architecture strategy, and ensuring alignment across infrastructure, security, compliance, resilience, and business objectives. This role is intended for a hands-on senior architect capable of operating at both strategic and deeply technical levels in a highly regulated financial environment., Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Serves as a senior technical advisor to executive leadership on enterprise architecture, technology strategy, resilience, and modernization initiatives.
• Partners with Security, Infrastructure, Development, Risk, Audit, and Compliance teams to ensure technology solutions align with regulatory expectations and organizational standards.
• Leads architecture and design reviews for critical enterprise initiatives across cloud, infrastructure, identity, networking, security, and application environments.
• Drives enterprise resiliency initiatives including disaster recovery, high availability, operational maturity, and self-healing system design.
• Evaluates complex technical and organizational problems, perform root cause analysis, and leads development of sustainable long-term solutions.
• Provides architectural guidance for cloud security, identity and access management, infrastructure automation, application security, and operational governance.
• Develops and maintains enterprise standards for secure architecture, infrastructure-as-code, cloud governance, identity lifecycle management, and operational controls.
• Supports regulatory examinations, internal audit activities, risk assessments, and security governance processes.
• Advises leadership on technology risk, operational maturity, security posture, and strategic investment priorities.
• Assists in development and execution of cloud, infrastructure, and security roadmaps aligned with organizational goals.
• Leads cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering and operational teams.
• Mentors technical staff and provide leadership across architecture, engineering, and security disciplines.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, AI capabilities, automation opportunities, and operational improvements to improve efficiency, resilience, and security posture.
• Participates in incident response, operational escalations, and enterprise problem resolution efforts when necessary.
• Regular and reliable attendance is required as an essential function of this position.
• Performs the full range of work assigned, and other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:

• Extensive experience operating within highly regulated environments with strong understanding of audit, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Deep experience with enterprise cloud platforms including AWS and Azure.
• Strong background in identity and access management, including SSO, federation, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, privileged access management, and identity governance.
• Experience designing and implementing resilient infrastructure and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise security frameworks including NIST, CIS, PCI, FFIEC, and related governance standards.
• Experience leading enterprise security or infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and operational automation.
• Experience building or governing cloud security programs and application security capabilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both executive leadership and deeply technical engineering teams.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and driving organizational maturity.
• Experience supporting or leading vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security governance, and operational risk reduction programs.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with willingness to engage directly in technical implementation when needed.
• Experience working across infrastructure, networking, security, development, and operational disciplines.

Education or Formal Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business or related field is required.
• Industry certifications from Cisco, Microsoft, or other related fields preferred.
• Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid State of Colorado Driver’s License is required.

Experience:

• 5-7 years of administering and operating multi-site networks with multiple data centers.
• Supervisory experience is beneficial but not required.

Starting Rate of Pay is from $120,000.00 to $150,000.00 per year, depending on experience.