Staff Architect - REMOTE

Is it surprising to hear that a financial institution of 1.5 million members and over $30 billion in managed assets say that success comes from focusing on people, not profits?

Our “people helping people” philosophy has guided us since 1935, driving our deep commitment to serving our members, communities, and each other. With business and technology transformation on the horizon, there’s never been a better time to be part of BECU.

Your story, perspectives, and lived experiences help shape belonging at BECU and deepen how we connect with and support our employees, our members, and our communities.

The Target Pay Range for this position is $171,700.00-$209,800.00 annually. At BECU, compensation decisions are determined using factors such as relevant job-related skills, experience, and education or training. Incentives are performance based and targets vary by role. BENEFITS – because people helping people starts with supporting you

• Medical, Dental and Vision (family contributions as well)
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• You’ll bring hands-on architectural expertise across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and enterprise governance while helping teams navigate complex design decisions. Your work will strengthen Application Portfolio Management, establish effective architecture standards, and ensure solutions align with security, risk, and regulatory expectations. You’ll also have opportunities to apply modern tools such as GitHub Copilot to make architecture work more efficient and effective. Through collaboration, technical leadership, and mentorship, you’ll help BECU build technology that can deliver lasting value for our members.

To join our dynamic team, we require candidates to be residents of WA, OR, ID, AZ, TX, GA, SC, NC, CA or VA. For those candidates that live outside the commute distance of TFC and in any of our approved remote work locations, this role will be remote. Remote or onsite, we are committed to ensuring you are fully engaged and included in our collaborative environment.

Shape Enterprise Solutions: You’ll lead the development of comprehensive solution architectures aligned with BECU’s strategic objectives, technical blueprints, and compliance standards, helping ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.

Strengthen Application Portfolio Management: You’ll support the governance and evolution of BECU’s application portfolio, helping teams evaluate applications, platforms, architectural alignment, and technology decisions.

Lead Architecture Governance: You’ll actively participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and design gates, including Architecture Review Board and Change Advisory Board activities, while helping establish and maintain architecture standards, processes, and constraints.

Drive Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: You’ll provide architectural expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, software, and related technology initiatives, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and modern hosting environments.

Own Complex Architecture Work: You’ll manage multiple simultaneous solution efforts and personally develop, review, document, and challenge architecture designs while guiding teams through complex technical decisions.

Embed Security & Compliance: You’ll evaluate architecture decisions through security, risk, design, and regulatory lenses and help ensure solutions meet BECU’s technology and compliance expectations.

Apply Modern AI Tools: You’ll use tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity in your architecture work, applying sound judgment to validate outputs and use emerging capabilities responsibly and effectively.

Evaluate Technology Partners: You’ll review and recommend third-party software platforms and help effectively integrate supplier technologies into BECU’s enterprise environment.

Develop Architecture Talent: You’ll mentor junior Architects and other technology peers, sharing solutions architecture practices and helping strengthen architectural capabilities across teams.

Broad Enterprise Impact: Work across cloud, infrastructure, applications, governance, security, and technology strategy rather than being confined to a single technical domain.

Meaningful Architecture Ownership: Stay close to the work by personally designing, reviewing, documenting, and influencing complex architectures while operating at Staff level.

Modern Technology Exposure: Deepen your experience with Microsoft Azure, modern cloud architecture, Application Portfolio Management, and AI-enabled tools such as GitHub Copilot.

Strategic Influence: Help shape architecture standards, portfolio governance, design decisions, and technology choices with long-term organizational impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: Apply your technical expertise within BECU’s “people helping people” credit union philosophy, supporting technology that ultimately serves our members.

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Typically requires 7 years of experience designing and implementing technology architectures, including experience managing delivery of multiple simultaneous complex technology solutions.

Certification in LEAN, Agile/Scrum, or ITIL, with demonstrated implementation success preferred.

Advanced knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g. microservices, RESTful APIs, scalable designs, digital platforms) and modern hosting environments (on-premise, cloud, hybrid) required.

Advanced knowledge of architectural hosting, security, and risk management (IAM, access control, monitoring, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, containers) required.

Familiarity with Microsoft infrastructure and solution stacks, and experience integrating supplier technologies into enterprise systems required.

Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Lean/Agile/Scrum methodologies; scaled agile frameworks (e.g., Strong relationship-building skills across organizational levels, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences required.

Excellent organizational, problem-solving, negotiation, and customer service skills required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.