Architect Lead, Public Cloud Infrastructure

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Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world's economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you're ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?

About the Role
The Cloud Foundations platform team builds and supports an Infrastructure-as-Code platform used by hundreds of software teams throughout FIS to build resilient, scalable, high performance financial applications.

As an Architect Lead, Cloud Infrastructure on the Cloud Foundations team, you will define and guide the technical vision for complex Infrastructure-as-Code software platforms supporting critical financial services. You will partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to design infrastructure components supporting scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. Your success is measured by architectural quality, delivery outcomes, and the ability to enable teams to build highperforming systems that meet regulatory and client expectations.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead endtoend software architecture for an Infrastructure-as-Code platform for Public Cloud infrastructure.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear architectural designs.
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.
• Guide technology selection, system integration, and cloud adoption strategies.
• Review designs and code to ensure quality, security, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align roadmaps and delivery.
• Identify technical risks and drive mitigation strategies early in the lifecycle.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers to strengthen architectural capability.
• Support modernization of legacy platforms and adoption of emerging technologies.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering enterprisegrade software-based infrastructure architectures.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience architecting and building infrastructure in a large company using Terraform Enterprise, Harness, and Python.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, data architectures, and integration patterns.
• Handson experience with cloud platforms, microservices, and containerized environments.
• Proven ability to balance architectural rigor with delivery speed and pragmatism.
• Experience applying security, reliability, and compliance principles in regulated environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an infrastructure architect in a large financial services enterprise.
• Knowledge of eventdriven architectures and realtime data processing.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructureascode practices.
• Architecture or cloud certifications.

What We Offer you

At FIS, you can grow your career as far as you want to take it. Here's what else we offer:

Opportunities to make an impact in fintech
Personal and professional learning
Inclusive, diverse work environment
Resources to give back to your community
Competitive salary and benefits

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FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

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Sourcing Model

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