Staff Architect
Boeing Employees' Credit Union2 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$133k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive solution architectures aligned with strategic objectives, technical blueprints, and compliance standards.
- Support governance and evolution of the application portfolio and evaluate architectural and technology decisions.
- Participate in architecture governance, design reviews, design gates, Architecture Review Board, and Change Advisory Board activities.
- Provide expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, software, and modern hosting environments, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure.
- Personally develop, review, document, and challenge architecture designs across multiple simultaneous complex initiatives.
- Evaluate architecture decisions through security, risk, design, and regulatory lenses.
- Use tools such as GitHub Copilot responsibly to improve architecture productivity.
- Assess business capabilities, industry trends, and emerging technologies for long-term value.
- Review and recommend third-party software platforms and integrate supplier technologies into the enterprise environment.
- Collaborate with architects, technology leaders, business partners, and production support teams to resolve architectural challenges.
- Mentor junior architects and technology peers and strengthen architecture capabilities across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Typically seven years of experience designing and implementing technology architectures, including managing delivery of multiple simultaneous complex technology solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of cloud-native technologies, scalable designs, digital platforms, and modern on-premise, cloud, and hybrid hosting environments.
- Advanced knowledge of architectural hosting, security, and risk management, including IAM, access control, monitoring, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and containers.
- Familiarity with Microsoft infrastructure and solution stacks and experience integrating supplier technologies into enterprise systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with Lean, Agile, and Scrum methodologies; scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe are preferred.
- Preferred certification in Lean, Agile/Scrum, or ITIL with demonstrated implementation success.
- Knowledge of architectural frameworks and industry practices such as The Open Group, NIST, ISO 19xxx, BizBok, and Gartner is preferred.
- Strong relationship-building, communication, organizational, problem-solving, negotiation, customer service, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Candidates must reside in WA, OR, ID, AZ, TX, GA, SC, NC, CA, or VA.
Benefits
- 401(k) company match of up to 3%.
- BECU makes a 4% annual contribution to the employee’s 401(k).
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including family contributions.
- PTO program and exchange program.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- BECU Cares volunteer time off and donation match.
- Remote or onsite work is available depending on location; Washington employees within reasonable driving distance of Tukwila are requested to work at headquarters Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
About Boeing Employees' Credit Union
Boeing Employees' Credit Union (BECU) is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative providing consumer and small-business banking and lending. Its products include checking and savings accounts, credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, digital banking, and financial education. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in Tukwila, Washington, BECU serves roughly 1.5 million members and manages over $30 billion in assets.