Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect - CoBank

Benefits Overview:

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. When you choose a career with CoBank, you make a difference by standing for something that matters. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank

• Careers with a purpose. Stand for something!
• Time-Off Packages, 20 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to 10K
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards

 

Job Description:

Collaborate, Develop, Champion and Execute CoBank's Technology architectural vision. Specializes in cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.

Essential Functions:

1. Contributes significantly to the development and successful execution of the bank's architectural vision and roadmap, focusing on cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
2. Partners closely with the Chief Architect to ensure alignment of architectural strategies with the bank’s long-term goals, influencing both tactical and strategic decision-making.
3. Leads the creation, maintenance, and governance of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), ensuring that architectural decisions are thoroughly documented, communicated, and adhered to across engineering teams.
4. Promotes and implements agile architectural practices like SAFe or Scaled Scrum to balance innovation, compliance, and operational excellence.
5. Leads the design, development, and security of REST APIs and microservices architectures, applying best practices for API security including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and OpenAPI specifications.
6. Leads as Subject Matter Expert on advanced CI/CD methodologies and tools, promoting Infrastructure as Code (IaC), immutable infrastructure, and DevOps best practices to streamline and secure deployment processes.
7. Oversees development and standardization of modern observability and debugging frameworks across the enterprise, utilizing a suite of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, PagerDuty, CloudWatch, App Insights, Dynatrace, or New Relic to proactively manage system health and performance.
8. Establishes and sustains standards for monitoring, logging, and alerting, ensuring systems are robustly monitored for performance and reliability.
9. Champions security best practices within the software development lifecycle, integrating DevSecOps and shift-left principles to proactively manage security risks.
10. Ensures that all architectural designs meet regulatory requirements and internal security standards.
11. Acts as a key liaison between technical teams and executive leadership, clearly articulating complex architectural strategies and decisions.
12. Mentors and guides engineering teams, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and innovation.
13. Works closely with business, product, and architecture teams to ensure the "Business capability model" accurately reflects architectural strategies and is aligned with business objectives.
14. Collaborates with Data Engineering to enhance data governance practices, strategizing on cloud migration, application rationalization, and data-centric architectures.
15. Leads the development of architectural patterns and proofs of concept (POCs), setting the standard for innovation and technical excellence within the engineering teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required

Work Experience:

12 years of overall hands-on experience spanning various disciplines of the software development lifecycle, with a proven track record of delivering customized software solutions as well as commercially marketed products through SaaS models. required
8 years of leadership experience in either managing engineering teams or delivering (not just strategizing) software projects . required
7 years of practical experience in API security, best practices, and standards including OAuth 2.0, JWT, and proficiency in OpenAPI specifications. required
5 years in architecting and implementing cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure or GCP) that could have involved FAAS/serverless or Containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins etc) and agile methodologies(scaled scrum, SAFe). required
4 years in architecting and leading the implementation of event-driven architectures via platforms like RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, Kafka or Azure Event Hub etc required
3 years in using or rolling out a suite of modern observability and application monitoring frameworks/tools within the applications you managed (eg. Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, NewRelic) required
Prior Experience in a highly regulated industry like banking, leading architecture across large teams with a proven track record of delivering organizational outcomes. required
1. Demonstrated experience showing effective communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders (Business, Product Managers/Product Owners, Architects, App Dev Teams, Operations).
2. Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of steering technical discussions and driving architectural decisions.

About CoBank:

The typical base pay range for this role is between $154,057 - $214,216. Compensation may vary based on individual job-related knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience. This position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.

The listed salary, other compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. This job will be posted for a minimum of five (5) business days or until the position is filled. CoBank reserves the right to adjust compensation for all positions and to modify or discontinue benefits programs at any time in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law.

 

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 76,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, CoBank serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

 

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

We are committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all applicants, including qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an applicant with a disability, or are assisting an applicant with a disability, and require accessibility assistance or would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the application process, including completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please submit a request by emailing recruiting@cobank.com. Include your contact information and specific details about your requested accommodation.

 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

 

CoBank is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.