Senior Cloud Architect — Global Banking & Markets

Goldman Sachs; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Cloud Platform Architect within Global Banking & Markets to drive architecture strategy for cloud-native stacks, lead governance, and shape enterprise AI adoption. You will influence multi-product roadmaps and ensure secure, scalable infrastructure across global teams.

The role requires deep cloud experience, strong communication, and ability to translate complex technical concepts to leadership, enabling strategic decisions and resilient execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant technical experience with at least 5 years hands-on experience with AWS.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines.
• Extensive practical cloud native experience.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture.
• Deep expertise across Infrastructure Architecture areas including IT Service Management, Monitoring and Observability, Cloud Compute and Storage, Application Integration, and IT Asset Management, Network and Systems Administration.
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Excellent communication; willingness to learn; proactive mindset with focus on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Advise and lead architecture strategy of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio.
• Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
• Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
• Establish and lead an architecture governance body.
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions.
• Partner across domains to reduce tooling duplication, clarify ownership, and maintain authoritative technology status and lifecycle governance.
• Improve decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and review-board effectiveness through clear standards, metrics, and architectural guardrails.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and adoption readiness.
• Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Hybrid/multi-cloud

AI in architecture

Security & compliance

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Cloud Platform Architect within Global Banking & Markets to drive architecture strategy for cloud-native stacks, lead governance, and shape enterprise AI adoption. You will influence multi-product roadmaps and ensure secure, scalable infrastructure across global teams.

The role requires deep cloud experience, strong communication, and ability to translate complex technical concepts to leadership, enabling strategic decisions and resilient execution.