Wintrust Financial
Senior Solutions Architect
Rosemont, IL · Senior
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$83 more — $117,083 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $117,083 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- 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.
- Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate's qualifications, skills and experience.
Responsibilities
- 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)
- 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.
- Mentoring: Level up our Cloud Engineers through design reviews, pair programming and architectural workshops.
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience.
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering or System Administration, with at least 5+ years of Cloud Architecture experience.
- 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.
- Serverless Architecture: Proven track record of deploying event-driven architecture using Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with interpersonal, customer service skills and leadership skills.
- Experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud systems and applications.
- Experience in project management, including budget and time management.
- 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).
- 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.
- Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, applications, and trends.
- Strong cloud migration and cloud management skills with emphasis on cloud resource management and security.
- Strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), architecture frameworks, design patterns, and programming concepts.
Skills
- Cloud infrastructures:
- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud computing services.
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this role is $117,000.00 - $165,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus.
Benefits
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount
- Transportation and Commuting Benefits
Company info
- Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work.
Equal opportunity
- Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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