BOK Financial
Cloud Solution Architect
Company: BOK Financial Corporation Group. Req ID: 77391. Location: Tulsa – TUL, Oklahoma City – OKC. Application Deadline: 01/03/2026.
We’re building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people (like you) can bring their best, be their best and work for the best. You’ve come to the right place to grow your career.
Job Description The Cloud Solution Architect is a position that will help lead the technology strategy for BOK Financial. They will ensure technology solutions align with business objectives and goals, identify, and mitigate technology risks and issues, provide thought leadership on emerging technology trends, and collaborate with executive leadership to develop technology investment plans. BOK Financial is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to accelerate cloud adoption across our enterprise. This strategic role will partner with application teams to evaluate existing workloads and design robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions that align with our enterprise architecture and platform capabilities. The candidate will be instrumental in shaping the future of BOKF’s cloud ecosystem—owning end-to-end solution design, collaborating across Lines of Business, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and On‑Prem Platform teams, and contributing to the evolution of our Cloud Landing Zone.
How You'll Spend Your Time
Lead the design of cloud‑native and hybrid architectures for application migration, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and platform capabilities.
Work closely with application owners to assess workloads, define migration strategies, and guide implementation.
Partner with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to ensure comprehensive and compliant solutions.
Support the Cloud Director in platform design discussions, POCs, and technology evaluations to enhance our AWS and Azure environments.
Leverage tools such as Policy‑as‑Code, Infrastructure Templates, and Workflow Automation to ensure repeatable and governed deployments.
Integrate observability tools and dashboards to ensure visibility into cloud operations and application performance.
Create solution documentation and contribute to self‑service catalogs to empower teams with reusable patterns and templates.
Education & Experience Requirements This role requires a bachelor's degree in a technology field and/or 10+ years of related IT experience. Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, or equivalent.
Skills
Cloud Architecture & Migration Strategy
Deep understanding of cloud‑native and hybrid architectures.
Ability to assess legacy applications and design migration paths (rehost, refactor, rearchitect).
Experience with multi‑cloud environments (AWS primary, Azure secondary).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Proficiency in Terraform IaC.
Experience creating reusable infrastructure modules and templates.
Familiarity with remote state management and automated pre/post checks.
CI/CD & Workflow Automation
Expertise in building repeatable pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and advanced workflow orchestration.
Security & Governance
Experience with Policy‑as‑Code frameworks (e.g., Open Policy Agent, Sentinel).
Integration of Secrets Management tools like AWS Secrets Manager with OIDC authentication.
Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
Monitoring & Observability
Familiarity with tools for unified observability, dependency mapping, and service topology.
Ability to design and implement dashboards and visualization tools for cloud operations.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Strong communication skills to work across Lines of Business, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.
Ability to lead technical discussions, present solution designs, and influence decision‑making.
Cloud Platform Engineering
Hands‑on experience with Cloud Landing Zone design and evolution.
Participation in POCs and technology evaluations to enhance platform capabilities.
Company Overview BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long‑term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!
Equal Opportunity Employer The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal‑opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.
Contact Please contact recruiting_coordinators@bokf.com with any questions.
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We’re building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people (like you) can bring their best, be their best and work for the best. You’ve come to the right place to grow your career.
Job Description The Cloud Solution Architect is a position that will help lead the technology strategy for BOK Financial. They will ensure technology solutions align with business objectives and goals, identify, and mitigate technology risks and issues, provide thought leadership on emerging technology trends, and collaborate with executive leadership to develop technology investment plans. BOK Financial is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to accelerate cloud adoption across our enterprise. This strategic role will partner with application teams to evaluate existing workloads and design robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions that align with our enterprise architecture and platform capabilities. The candidate will be instrumental in shaping the future of BOKF’s cloud ecosystem—owning end-to-end solution design, collaborating across Lines of Business, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and On‑Prem Platform teams, and contributing to the evolution of our Cloud Landing Zone.
How You'll Spend Your Time
Lead the design of cloud‑native and hybrid architectures for application migration, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and platform capabilities.
Work closely with application owners to assess workloads, define migration strategies, and guide implementation.
Partner with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to ensure comprehensive and compliant solutions.
Support the Cloud Director in platform design discussions, POCs, and technology evaluations to enhance our AWS and Azure environments.
Leverage tools such as Policy‑as‑Code, Infrastructure Templates, and Workflow Automation to ensure repeatable and governed deployments.
Integrate observability tools and dashboards to ensure visibility into cloud operations and application performance.
Create solution documentation and contribute to self‑service catalogs to empower teams with reusable patterns and templates.
Education & Experience Requirements This role requires a bachelor's degree in a technology field and/or 10+ years of related IT experience. Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, or equivalent.
Skills
Cloud Architecture & Migration Strategy
Deep understanding of cloud‑native and hybrid architectures.
Ability to assess legacy applications and design migration paths (rehost, refactor, rearchitect).
Experience with multi‑cloud environments (AWS primary, Azure secondary).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Proficiency in Terraform IaC.
Experience creating reusable infrastructure modules and templates.
Familiarity with remote state management and automated pre/post checks.
CI/CD & Workflow Automation
Expertise in building repeatable pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and advanced workflow orchestration.
Security & Governance
Experience with Policy‑as‑Code frameworks (e.g., Open Policy Agent, Sentinel).
Integration of Secrets Management tools like AWS Secrets Manager with OIDC authentication.
Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
Monitoring & Observability
Familiarity with tools for unified observability, dependency mapping, and service topology.
Ability to design and implement dashboards and visualization tools for cloud operations.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Strong communication skills to work across Lines of Business, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.
Ability to lead technical discussions, present solution designs, and influence decision‑making.
Cloud Platform Engineering
Hands‑on experience with Cloud Landing Zone design and evolution.
Participation in POCs and technology evaluations to enhance platform capabilities.
Company Overview BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long‑term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!
Equal Opportunity Employer The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal‑opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.
Contact Please contact recruiting_coordinators@bokf.com with any questions.
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