Hybrid Enterprise Architect: Cloud, Infra & Strategy

KeyBank; Brooklyn (OH); On-site; USD 96,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

KeyCorp is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect with an infrastructure focus to define target architectures for critical initiatives, aligning business strategy with cloud, network, compute, and storage platforms. You will drive governance, partner with risk and security, and steer standardization and automation across teams.

The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, and compliance to deliver secure, resilient solutions, guiding cross-functional reviews and decisions across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Master's degree in technology or business desirable
• Experience in architecture designing enterprise applications across application, data and infrastructure domains
• Experience managing and driving enterprise architecture capabilities within a large corporation
• Experience with Internet delivery architecture, messaging and web service architecture, sales delivery platform architectures and mobile architecture

Responsibilities

• Develops enterprise architecture options, including infrastructure impacts, with clear cost/benefit, risk, and trade-off analysis
• Defines and communicates target-state roadmaps aligned to business strategy and organizational readiness
• Influences architecture decisions across teams through facilitation, data-driven recommendations, and consensus-building
• Balances strategic and tactical needs by evaluating tradeoffs across business outcomes, delivery constraints, and long-short-term platform considerations
• Operates independently, driving architecture outcomes while partnering effectively across product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams
• Participates in architecture governance by reviewing and influencing architecture for critical delivery projects (application, data, and infrastructure)
• Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Drives innovation by identifying opportunities to modernize platforms and reduce complexity through standardization and automation
• Communicates complex architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Synthesizes the 'big picture' across domains while guiding teams on the key details needed for secure, resilient implementation
• Leads cross-functional working sessions and architecture reviews to drive alignment and timely decisions
• Navigates ambiguity by framing decisions, defining assumptions, and iterating toward an agreed target state
• Facilitates conflict resolution by surfacing tradeoffs, aligning on principles, and documenting decision rationale
• Partners with risk, security, and compliance to ensure architectures meet resiliency, control, and regulatory requirements

Skills

Cloud Technologies

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Security concepts

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Master's degree in technology desirable

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

KeyCorp is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect with an infrastructure focus to define target architectures for critical initiatives, aligning business strategy with cloud, network, compute, and storage platforms. You will drive governance, partner with risk and security, and steer standardization and automation across teams.

The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, and compliance to deliver secure, resilient solutions, guiding cross-functional reviews and decisions across