Senior Solutions Architect

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.”

• 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, and trade-offs of established enterprise architectures and technology in general.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of enterprise’s businesses. Understand current and future needs of the business and align cloud technology roadmap to deliver upon those needs.
• Identify, analyze, and communicate cloud architecture and integrations options and make recommendations to management.
• Analyze project requirements with development teams and influence the appropriate technical design at the project level maintaining consistency with architecture vision.
• Develop architectural diagrams that document project plans and production systems.
• Develop documentation on recommended cloud solutions that would include relevant research, cost analysis data, risk information, implementation strategies and industry positions.  Conduct industry research and evaluations in order to develop cloud solutions to resolve business needs.
• Contribute to the Architecture Standards and Review Board (ASRB); ASRB capabilities, documentation and processes
• Responsible for third-party vendor relationships related to area of responsibility.

• 10+ years of experience. 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering or System Administration, with at least 5+ years of Cloud Architecture experience. IT Cloud Architecture, Design, and Implementation utilizing Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Cloud Proficiency: Expert-level mastery of AWS, Azure and or GCP. Deep knowledge of core services (Computing, Storage, Database, Networking, Cloud Governance).
• IaC Mastery: Proven experience managing production environments via IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible etc.)
• Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) and Docker orchestration.
• Networking: Strong understanding of VCPs, Subnets, Transit Gateways, DNS, and Hybrid-Cloud connectivity.
• Multi-Cloud Experience: Experience designing redundancy across two or more cloud providers.
• Serverless Architecture: Proven track record of deploying event-driven architecture using Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, applications, and trends.
• Strong cloud migration and cloud management skills with emphasis on cloud resource management and security.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with interpersonal, customer service skills and leadership skills.
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), architecture frameworks, design patterns, and programming concepts.
• Experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud systems and applications.
• Experience in project management, including budget and time management.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities.
• Certifications or 10+ years of experience across a wide range of Information Technology disciplines.
• Must have at least one of the following Certifications:
• Professional level Cloud Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Professional)
• Certifications in Architecture Frameworks (e.g TOGAF, Zachman)

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life.  To build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success.  Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.