Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth. We have an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Cloud & Security Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team Reporting to Enterprise Architecture leadership, and in collaboration with the Cloud and Security teams, the Enterprise Cloud & Security Architect is a Domain Architect within the Enterprise Architecture practice, accountable for establishing architectural direction, standards, patterns, and guardrails for cloud platforms and enterprise security across Alberta Blue Cross. Cloud platforms underpin enterprise applications, data, integration, identity, and digital services, while security, privacy, resilience, and risk considerations must be embedded from the outset. The Security Architecture mandate involves enterprise-level architectural leadership for security capabilities across the organization. It provides architecture oversight and governance for security-related initiatives without assuming responsibility for operational security, cyber operations, or security engineering delivery. The Cloud Architecture mandate involves enterprise-level architectural leadership for cloud capabilities across the organization. The position provides architecture oversight and governance for cloud platforms and major cloud-related initiatives without assuming responsibility for cloud engineering, infrastructure operations, or delivery execution.



This is a senior strategic architecture role responsible for shaping the long‑term direction of Alberta Blue Cross’s cloud and security capabilities and is not an infrastructure operations, cloud engineering, cyber operations, or security administration position. The role focuses on setting architectural direction and standards that enable delivery teams to build and operate cloud and security solutions in a consistent, scalable, resilient, and compliant manner across contemporary cloud platforms and legacy environments. Enabling business outcomes while managing risk and regulatory obligations Promoting consistency, reuse, and long‑term sustainability across portfolios Shape executive decisions by translating complex architectural, technology, cloud, and security considerations into clear options, trade‑offs, and recommendations. Cloud platform foundations, landing zones, and service adoption Identity, access, network, and security control patterns Security architecture, risk controls, compliance, and secure‑by‑design practices Establish architectural guardrails for secure and responsible use of cloud services, including identity, access, network security, data protection, resilience, monitoring, privacy, and compliance. Provide architectural leadership across a hybrid technology estate, including on‑premises environments, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and integrated enterprise systems. Partner with cloud platform, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, risk,



infrastructure, and operations leaders to ensure architecture aligns with enterprise policy and regulatory requirements. Assess current‑state cloud and security capabilities, identify fragmentation or technical debt, and recommend enterprise improvement priorities. Partner with practice leaders to support enterprise roadmaps and strategies for cloud platforms, cybersecurity, integration patterns, resilience, observability, and platform modernization. Identify enterprise‑level risks and opportunities related to cloud adoption, security architecture, and digital platform modernization and advise leadership accordingly. Provide enterprise‑wide architectural leadership for cloud and security capabilities, in alignment with the broader architecture community Ensure cloud and security initiatives are aligned to enterprise strategy, risk expectations, privacy, resilience, and regulatory requirements. Identify and communicate enterprise‑level risks, trade‑offs, and opportunities related to cloud adoption, cybersecurity, and platform modernization. Works in close partnership with Cybersecurity and CISO leadership to translate enterprise security strategy, risk requirements, and policies into architectural principles, standards, patterns, and technology decisions. Reduction in architectural fragmentation, duplication, and unmanaged complexity across cloud and security capabilities. Positive executive and stakeholder feedback on clarity of direction, decision support, and architectural guidance. Evidence that cloud and security investments support business outcomes, regulatory compliance, resilience, and long‑term sustainability. Effective collaboration across portfolios, enabling delivery without a

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🏢 Alberta Blue Cross
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