Synovus Financial

Wealth Management & Trust Domain Enterprise Architect

Synovus Financial$135K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, specifically in financial services or wealth management sectors.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent experience accepted.
  • Strong technical and business acumen to advise on technology investments.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence diverse stakeholders and drive strategic alignment.
  • Servant leadership mindset with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience with emerging technologies such as AI and automation relevant to wealth management.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written, suitable for engaging executive leaders and technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the architecture strategy for Wealth Management and Trust, aligning with multi-year business objectives.
  • Develop current-state and target-state architectures across various technology domains.
  • Maintain business capability maps and optimize technology portfolios.
  • Identify and address technology redundancies and modernization opportunities.
  • Represent Wealth Management interests in enterprise architecture governance and compliance activities.
  • Promote service reuse and application modernization to enhance agility and reduce risk.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to innovate within the Wealth Management domain.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Professional development opportunities and training.
  • Collaborative work environment that promotes innovation.
  • Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making at high levels.
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

The Wealth Management & Trust Domain Enterprise Architect serves as the strategic technology and architecture advisor for Pinnacle's Wealth Management and Trust business. This role is accountable for translating business strategy into technology capabilities, architecture roadmaps, investment priorities, and modernization initiatives that support growth, client experience, regulatory compliance, operational resiliency, and long-term business value.

The Domain Enterprise Architect owns the Wealth Management and Trust architecture roadmap, business capability model, technology portfolio strategy, future-state architecture vision, and governance processes. This role partners with executive leadership, business stakeholders, product management, engineering teams, and risk organizations to optimize technology investments, reduce complexity and technical debt, improve technology resiliency, and enable scalable business growth.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Roadmap
  • Define and lead the Wealth Management and Trust domain architecture strategy, creating and maintaining multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives, enterprise architecture principles, risk requirements, and regulatory obligations.
  • Develop and govern current-state, target-state, and transition architectures across business, data, application, integration, and technology domains.
  • Develop and maintain Wealth Management and Trust business capability maps and support of technology portfolios.
  • Identify capability gaps, technology redundancies, technical debt, and modernization opportunities across the Wealth Management ecosystem.
  • Represent Wealth Management and Trust interests within enterprise architecture governance processes, including oversight through the Pinnacle Architecture Review Council (PARC), standards management, exception reviews, and architecture compliance activities.
  • Ensure technology solutions align with enterprise reference architectures, security standards, data governance principles, risk management frameworks, and technology lifecycle policies.


Wealth Management & Trust Domain Leadership
  • Serve as the strategic architecture leader for Wealth Management and Trust platforms, products, services, fiduciary operations, investment management functions, and client engagement capabilities.
  • Ensure architecture decisions support evolving wealth management, trust administration, fiduciary, brokerage, regulatory, and investment product requirements.
  • Promote platform rationalization, service reuse, application modernization, and technology simplification to reduce operational risk and improve business agility.
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to define future-state operating models and capability evolution strategies.


Innovation & Emerging Technologies
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, advanced analytics, and digital capabilities, for applicability within the Wealth Management and Trust domain.

The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum Experience:

  • Demonstrate a servant leadership mindset that fosters innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Possess strong technical, business, and industry knowledge and serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders.
  • Effectively influence decision-making and build alignment among diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Encourage creative thinking and diverse approaches to solving complex business and technology challenges.
  • Drive results through collaboration, ownership, accountability, and strategic execution.
  • Simplify complex business and technical concepts to ensure stakeholders can understand, contribute, and make informed decisions.
  • Maintain expertise in industry trends, emerging technologies, architecture practices, and financial services capabilities.
  • Build commitment and consensus across teams while balancing competing priorities and objectives.
  • Demonstrate strong executive presence and communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation capabilities.
  • Exhibit sound judgment and decision-making in complex, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving environments.


Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively while managing multiple priorities and competing demands.
  • Strong client service orientation and relationship management skills.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technical teams.

The physical activities of this job include but are not limited to the ability to stand and sit for prolonged periods of time, use manual dexterity, communicate verbally, maintain visual acuity, perform repetitive motion activities, and hear effectively. Extended periods of concentration may be required. Additional activities may include bending, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, and grasping.

About Synovus Financial

Synovus Financial Corp. is a financial services company that provides banking, investment, and mortgage services to customers in the Southeastern United States. The company operates through its banking subsidiary, Synovus Bank, which has over 250 branches in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Synovus Financial Corp. was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.
Learn more about Synovus Financial
Size
4,907 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$373.7 million
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+10.1%
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