Lead Systems Architect – SaaS & Cloud Security

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This role is in the office three days a week and a hybrid position. The role is seated in the cities posted on the req.

There is no visa sponsorship or visa transfers for this role.

Why This Role Is Cool

If you enjoy working at the intersection of cloud-scale platforms, real enterprise risk, and executive-level impact, this role delivers all three. You’ll shape how core SaaS platforms are securely onboarded and operated across a large, complex enterprise—your work directly influencing production readiness, remediation priorities, and risk decisions at the CIO and line-of-business level.

This role steps into critical ownership of SaaS and cloud security architecture, continuing high-impact work across platforms like Microsoft 365, developer tooling, and key business systems. You’ll be trusted as a security authority whose work directly informs how enterprise technology moves to production.

Growth & Visibility

This position offers strong visibility with senior technology leaders, including CIO-aligned teams and enterprise architecture stakeholders. The scope and impact of the work provide opportunities to broaden influence across multiple domains, shape long-term architecture strategy, and deepen expertise in enterprise-scale SaaS and cloud security.

About the Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Architect to strengthen and sustain our SaaS security architecture and enterprise threat modeling capabilities. This role plays a foundational part in securing enterprise SaaS services and advising technology leaders through complex risk and architecture decisions.

You will partner closely with architecture, engineering, and risk teams to deliver threat models, security assessments, and architectural guidance that directly informs how technology is designed, approved, and deployed.

In This Role, You Will:

• Lead complex projects and initiatives with companywide scope and visibility
• Create and contribute to architectural artifacts for key technology initiatives
• Help define future-state technology architecture and strategy
• Identify initiatives with medium to high architectural impact
• Conduct in-depth technology and system assessments to shape architecture solutions
• Communicate enterprise architecture strategy to both technical teams and leadership
• Make decisions related to the development and maintenance of architectures
• Apply compliance and risk management requirements across supported areas
• Ensure solutions align with Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies, and industry best practices
• Collaborate across teams to resolve issues and deliver secure, scalable outcomes

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education

Desired Technical Skills:

• SaaS security architecture (enterprise-scale platforms)
• Hands-on experience leveraging Generative AI to accelerate secure-by-design architectures, evaluate solution designs, propose risk-reducing controls, and improve automation and operational efficiency
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts, including agents used to orchestrate workflows and system interactions
• Cloud security architecture (Azure, AWS, and/or GCP)
• Enterprise threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE, ATT&CK)
• Identity and access management (SSO, federation, privileged access)
• Data protection controls (encryption, DLP, key management)
• Secure SaaS onboarding and shared-responsibility models
• API, integration, and platform security
• CI/CD and developer tooling security
• Zero Trust architecture concepts
• Security risk assessment and remediation planning

Role Responsibilities:

Identify and account for AI model limitations, security risks, operational constraints, and misuse scenarios in architecture decisions

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.