To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
Lead the Platform Architecture Team
Lead, develop, and set direction for a team of principal architects covering cloud, on-premises infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, and observability domains
Own the Platform Architecture vision: deliver the resilient, scalable foundation upon which critical market functions depend - making resilience the default, not the exception
Ensure individual architect domain expertise is synthesized into coherent, enterprise-wide platform standards - not siloed recommendations
Manage team priorities, capacity, and delivery against architecture commitments across programs and initiatives Develop team members through coaching, feedback, and exposure to enterprise-scale architectural challenges
Define and Govern Platform Architecture Standards
Establish and maintain authoritative platform architecture standards spanning cloud (AWS), on-premises data center, hybrid connectivity, networking, compute, storage, and container platforms
Enforce platform standards through Architecture Review Board participation and design review processes
Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, ADRs, and transition plans that accurately reflect current and target state
Drive Infrastructure Modernization and Cloud Strategy
Own OCC's infrastructure architecture strategy for cloud adoption - defining what moves to AWS, what remains on-premises, and how hybrid connectivity is structured
Lead architecture direction for container platform (Kubernetes/EKS), streaming infrastructure (Kafka), and stream processing (Flink) as foundational platform capabilities
Identify and systematically reduce infrastructure risk - single points of failure, end-of-life dependencies, capacity constraints, and gaps in recovery capabilities
Partner Across the Organization
Serve as the primary platform architecture partner to Application Architecture, ensuring application designs are grounded in platform reality and platform capabilities evolve to meet application needs
Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Operations to ensure platform architecture decisions are implementable, operable, and aligned to security requirements
Engage with Technology Leads, program management, and senior leadership to represent platform architecture in strategic planning, budgeting, and vendor decisions
Coordinate with Governance/Risk and Compliance to ensure platform architecture satisfies OCC's regulatory obligations under Regulation SCI and CPMI-IOSCO resilience principles
Ensure Operational Resilience
Establish observability standards - metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting - as platform-level capabilities delivered to all application teams
Define and govern disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience architecture across infrastructure domains
Drive capacity planning and performance engineering practices; ensure the platfor
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies. Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account. Any resume submitted outside of an active job posting will not be considered for employment.
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