Distinguished Architect-Consumer Banking

Citizens Bank

$150K — $180K *
Plano, TX 75024In-Person
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
  • 15+ years of experience in web development or solutions architecture
  • Proven track record of delivering consumer-facing and internal solutions
  • Strong understanding of DevOps practices and tools like Chef and Puppet
  • Familiarity with several programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, and at least one front-end framework like Angular or React
  • Experience with IT infrastructure and cloud development
  • Expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies, with a focus on customer-facing applications.

Responsibilities

  • Leading a team of architects and ensuring resource allocation for quality solutions
  • Developing and aligning architectural strategy across company platforms
  • Communicating strategy to executive staff and industry partners to influence business decisions
  • Providing technical direction and feedback for platform architectural approaches
  • Driving product and solution strategies to inform investment decisions across the organization.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career growth in a senior leadership role
  • Collaboration with senior management and diverse technological teams
  • Chance to influence enterprise-level technology and business strategy
  • Engagement with executive leadership and architecture review processes
  • Involvement in developing cutting-edge technological solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Distinguished Architect, you will be responsible for groundbreaking integration support across multiple technological and/or business platforms. You will have the opportunity to lead a team of architects and work alongside senior management, software engineers and technologists to ensure the strategic alignment of technological solutions and business objectives. The Distinguished Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight across a portfolio of company platforms and will present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to executive technology and business leadership.

Primary responsibilities include
  • Leading a team of architects; offering guidance, thought leadership and ensuring proper resource allocation to deliver top-quality solutions.
  • Developing architectural strategy across assigned Company Platforms, ensuring enterprise-level consistency and alignment.
  • Establishing and communicating strategy to executive staff, industry partners and customers; using recognized technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and craft business strategy and decision-making at the highest interpersonal levels.
  • Providing consultation, design input, technical direction and feedback for consistent Company Platform architectural approaches across portfolio Principal Architects and senior engineering leadership.
  • Driving and developing product and solution strategies that inform product requirements and investment decisions for Company Platforms across the organization, weaving the enterprise technology vision into the planning and investment processes.

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials
  • Required Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline
    • 15+ years of working experience in web-development or solutions architecture, with a proven track record of developing consumer-facing and internal solutions
    • Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements and/or pivots, including pilot implementation and analysis
    • Excellent understanding of Dev0ps; chef and puppet technique
    • Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
    • Experience working with IT infrastructure and cloud development
    • Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
    • Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
    • Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
    • Experience building cloud-native applications
    • Experience with API's
    • Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
    • Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Preferred Qualifications
    • Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
    • 5+ years of working experience in the financial services industry
    • UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
    • Comfortable/experience navigating large corporate structure
    • Executive speaking and presentation skills- Formal presentations, white-boarding, large and small group presentations

Hours & Work Schedule
  • Hours per Week: 40
  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday


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