Location: WA
Work arrangement: Remote
Work type: Full-time
Compensation: $171700-$209800 annual
This position brings hands-on architectural expertise across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and enterprise governance while helping teams navigate complex design decisions. The role will strengthen Application Portfolio Management, establish effective architecture standards, and ensure solutions align with security, risk, and regulatory expectations. There are also opportunities to apply modern tools such as GitHub Copilot to make architecture work more efficient and effective. Through collaboration, technical leadership, and mentorship, this position helps build technology that can deliver lasting value for members.
To join this dynamic team, candidates must be residents of WA, OR, ID, AZ, TX, GA, SC, NC, CA or VA. If located in Washington state and within a reasonable driving distance from Tukwila, attendance at HQ on Tuesdays and Wednesdays is requested. For candidates that live outside the commute distance and in any of the approved remote work locations, this role will be remote. Remote or onsite, the organization is committed to ensuring full engagement and inclusion in a collaborative environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Shape Enterprise Solutions: Lead the development of comprehensive solution architectures aligned with strategic objectives, technical blueprints, and compliance standards, helping ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.
Strengthen Application Portfolio Management: Support the governance and evolution of the application portfolio, helping teams evaluate applications, platforms, architectural alignment, and technology decisions.
Lead Architecture Governance: Actively participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and design gates, including Architecture Review Board and Change Advisory Board activities, while helping establish and maintain architecture standards, processes, and constraints.
Drive Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: Provide architectural expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, software, and related technology initiatives, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and modern hosting environments.
Own Complex Architecture Work: Manage multiple simultaneous solution efforts and personally develop, review, document, and challenge architecture designs while guiding teams through complex technical decisions.
Embed Security & Compliance: Evaluate architecture decisions through security, risk, design, and regulatory lenses and help ensure solutions meet technology and compliance expectations.
Apply Modern AI Tools: Use tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity in architecture work, applying sound judgment to validate outputs and use emerging capabilities responsibly and effectively.
Identify Long-Term Business Value: Drive discussions about the business capability landscape and evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify innovations that can deliver lasting value.
Evaluate Technology Partners: Review and recommend third-party software platforms and help effectively integrate supplier technologies into the enterprise environment.
Partner Across the Organization: Collaborate with architects, Technology leaders, business partners, and production support teams to resolve architectural challenges, reduce design debt, and advance strategic initiatives.
Develop Architecture Talent: Mentor junior Architects and other technology peers, sharing solutions architecture practices and helping strengthen architectural capabilities across teams.
This isn't just about ticking off tasks on a list. It's about making a significant, positive change where contributions are valued and growth is continually fostered.
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN:
Broad Enterprise Impact: Work across cloud, infrastructure, applications, governance, security, and technology strategy rather than being confined to a single technical domain.
Meaningful Architecture Ownership: Stay close to the work by personally designing, reviewing, documenting, and influencing complex architectures while operating at Staff level.
Modern Technology Exposure: Deepen experience with Microsoft Azure, modern cloud architecture, Application Portfolio Management, and AI-enabled tools such as GitHub Copilot.
Strategic Influence: Help shape architecture standards, portfolio governance, design decisions, and technology choices with long-term organizational impact.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with architects, directors, technology leaders, and stakeholders across a wide range of technology disciplines.
Purpose-Driven Work: Apply technical expertise within a "people helping people" credit union philosophy, supporting technology that ultimately serves members.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum Qualifications:
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Typically requires 7 years of experience designing and implementing technology architectures, including experience managing delivery of multiple simultaneous complex technology solutions.
Desired Qualifications:
Certification in LEAN, Agile/Scrum, or ITIL, with demonstrated implementation success preferred.
Advanced knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g. microservices, RESTful APIs, scalable designs, digital platforms) and modern hosting environments (on-premise, cloud, hybrid) required.
Advanced knowledge of architectural hosting, security, and risk management (IAM, access control, monitoring, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, containers) required.
Familiarity with Microsoft infrastructure and solution stacks, and experience integrating supplier technologies into enterprise systems required.
Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Lean/Agile/Scrum methodologies; scaled agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe) preferred.
Knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and architectural frameworks (e.g., The Open Group, NIST, ISO 19xxx, BizBok, Gartner) preferred.
Strong relationship-building skills across organizational levels, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences required.
Excellent organizational, problem-solving, negotiation, and customer service skills required.
Exceptional verbal and written communication, facilitation, and presentation abilities required.
A large specialty credit union serving aerospace employees is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.
Compensation: $171700-$209800 annual