Cloud Platform Architect

Primary Office Location:
626 Washington Place. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 15219.

Join our team. Make a difference - for us and for your future.

**Please note: this on-site position is based at our Financial Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Candidates must be local, or willing to relocate to the area.

In addition to the requirements below, strong knowledge of AWS, Azure and GCP along with the ability to take best practices and apply them to a hybrid cloud/datacenter model are strongly preferred.

FNB will not provide sponsorship for employment-based visas for this position; only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered.

At First National Bank, we value relevant experience and the accomplishments you've achieved throughout your career. For this position, equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of the education requirements listed below. Specifically, we will accept two (2) years of commensurate experience with an associate degree, or four (4) years of commensurate experience without a bachelor's degree.**

Position Title: Cloud Platform Architect

Business Unit: Technology

Reports to: Director of Infrastructure Services

Position Overview:

The Cloud Platform Architect holds enterprise-wide accountability for cloud platform architecture at FNB. The role defines the multi-year cloud strategy, sets enterprise standards and guardrails, and governs design patterns across all business units and regulated workloads. By leading the architecture review board and partnering with Security, Risk, and Engineering, the Architect ensures secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions aligned to enterprise strategy and regulatory obligations.

Primary Responsibilities:

Own and publish the multi-year enterprise cloud architecture roadmap, reference architectures, and standards across public cloud and hybrid environments; ensure alignment to enterprise and risk strategies.

Establish patterns for identity, networking, segmentation, encryption, and access control. Develop cloud resiliency architectures including high availability, disaster recovery, and fault isolation strategies. Architect secure landing zones and governance operating model (policy-as-code, environment separation, guardrails, exception processes).

Lead architectural reviews for new cloud workloads and modernization initiatives. Align cloud architecture strategy with enterprise risk, compliance, and regulatory requirements.


Own FinOps-aligned cost governance, capacity strategy, and cost-informed architecture decision frameworks. Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess architectural impact and risk.

Govern cloud architecture through review boards, modernization oversight, and regulatory/risk alignment with audit-ready control evidence.


Define enterprise identity, network segmentation, encryption/key management, and access control patterns aligned to Zero Trust. Architect compute, storage, networking, and identity services within public cloud environments. Design infrastructure-as-code frameworks and automation standards.

Integrate Develops controls including security scanning, policy enforcement, and pipeline governance. Define observability, monitoring, and logging architecture patterns.

Support hybrid connectivity patterns integrating on-premise infrastructure with cloud platforms. Provide technical oversight for large-scale cloud migrations and transformation programs.

Mentor cloud engineers, vendors, application engineers, and server engineers and provide technical leadership across projects. Measured by reduction in security exceptions, improved audit outcomes, increased landing zone adoption, improved workload resiliency posture, and cloud unit cost reduction.

Collaborate with enterprise architecture to ensure alignment with long-term strategy. Strong experience with cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity services.

Performs other related duties and projects as assigned.

All employees have the responsibility and the accountability to serve as risk managers for their businesses by understanding, reporting, responding to, managing and monitoring the risk they encounter daily as required by F.N.B. Corporation's risk management program.F.N.B. Corporation is committed to achieving superior levels of compliance by adhering to regulatory laws and guidelines. Compliance with regulatory laws and company procedures is a required component of all position descriptions.

Minimum Level of Education Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

BA or BS

Minimum # of Years of Job Related Experience Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

10

Skills Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

Ability to work and multi-task in a fast paced environment

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Excellent management skills

Excellent project management skills


Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills

Detail-oriented

Licensures/Certifications Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

Preferred, ITIL, Terraform Certified Professional, AWS Solution Architect

Physical Requirements or Work Conditions Beyond Traditional Office Work:

N/A

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):

It is the policy of F.N.B. Corporation (FNB) and its affiliates not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other category protected by law. It is also the policy of FNB and its affiliates to employ and advance in employment all persons regardless of their status as individuals with disabilities or veterans, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. FNB provides all applicants and employees a discrimination and harassment free workplace.

FNB will not provide sponsorship for employment-based visas for this position; only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered.