Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Wintrust Financial Corporation; Rosemont (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonus eligible

Promote from within

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corporation is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design, governance, and delivery of scalable cloud solutions. You will work across AWS, Azure and GCP, shaping strategy, standards, and roadmaps while guiding engineers and collaborating with executives.

The role emphasizes HIPAA/GDPR/SOC2 compliance, IaC adoption, and seamless migration of legacy workloads to cloud environments, with a focus on cost efficiency and time-to-market.

Qualifications

• Extensive cloud architecture experience across multiple cloud platforms.
• Proven leadership and mentoring of engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder communication to executives and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, resilient cloud systems across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop and maintain cloud strategy and roadmaps.
• Establish governance, security and compliance controls (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2).
• Drive IaC adoption with Terraform/CloudFormation to automate provisioning.
• Lead migration of workloads to cloud ( Re-Hosting, Re-Platforming, Re-Architecting).
• Collaborate with DevOps to embed patterns in CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize performance with caching, CDN, and load balancing.
• Provide technical leadership and escalation support.
• Translate complex architecture decisions for C-suite and stakeholders.
• Mentor Cloud Engineers through reviews and workshops.
• Contribute to enterprise cloud strategy and planning sessions.
• Participate in key planning sessions to advise capabilities and constraints.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich., and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "WTFC.">

An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 12 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)

Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible

Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few

Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business

We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

The Senior Cloud Architect helps to develop, maintain and govern Cloud architecture and the technology portfolio roadmaps across multiple Cloud application portfolios. Work across all architectural disciplines, including business (processes/activities/functions/information), application, data, integration, infrastructure, security and technology, and creates and maintains related best practices, patterns and reference architectures.

The Senior Cloud Architect facilitates the development, implementation and maintenance of standards, guidelines and statements of direction for company IT system architectures, establishing a framework that constrains the design of systems for the purpose of integration of Hybrid Cloud systems and accessibility of data supporting various interdependent business processes and functions. Works closely with applications system architects, data architects, network technologists, business analysts and other stakeholders to ensure consensus on direction, in line with global strategies for future integration. Focus is often on establishing and maintaining a reusable Cloud architectural blueprint to reduce business costs, improve time-to-market of products and services, improved product quality, and customer satisfaction.

Design, architect and implement new Cloud capabilities that address any gaps and provide integrated end to end scalable, enterprise-class services. Has a proven capability to analyze existing products and infrastructure, understand how to leverage existing investments and introduce best of breed, emerging Cloud infrastructures: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud computing services.

What You'll Do

• Architectural Blueprinting: Lead the design of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems and ecosystems in AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Cloud Strategy: Develop and maintain the cloud roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices (Well-Architected Framework)
• Governance & Compliance: Establish guardrails for resource provisioning to ensure security compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, etc.) and operational consistency.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the transition towards a fully automated environment using tools (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation) to eliminate manual configuration drift.
• Migration Orchestration: Lead the strategy for migrating legacy workloads to the cloud (Re-Hosting, Re-Platforming, and Re-Architecting).
• CI/CD Integration: Partner with DevOps teams to integrate architectural patterns into automated deployment pipelines.
• Performance tuning: Identify bottlenecks in current architecture and implement caching, CDN, and load-balancing strategies to optimize latency.
• Technical leadership: Act as final escalation point for complex cloud technical hurdles.
• Stakeholder Communication: Translate complex architectural decisions into business terms for C-suite executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring: Level up our Cloud Engineers through design reviews, pair programming and architectural workshops.
• Contribute to the definition of architectural cloud strategies and plans for enterprise's information technology. Conduct assessments, studies, and/or surveys to obtain data; analyzes data to advise and recommend cloud solutions.
• Participate in key planning sessions to advise and clarify capabilities, limitations, an