Cloud-Native Modernization Architect

Cox Communications; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave programs

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Huntington is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to shape enterprise technology strategy, governance, and modernization across a regulated financial services environment. You will partner with business, risk, security, data, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, you will translate priorities into practical roadmaps, influence executives, and lead governance across cloud, data, and application domains.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise/solution architecture, technology strategy, IT transformation, or financial services tech leadership.
• Experience implementing architecture governance in regulated, agile, product-centric or scaled delivery environments.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns (APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, security).

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architectures, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• Challenge business lines on architecture and processes to elevate outcomes and enable complementary solutions.
• Translate business priorities into actionable architecture guidance, investment themes, and transformation plans.
• Support AI governance, risk controls, and architecture review forums.
• Document architecture standards and maintain a central repository of reusable artifacts.
• Evaluate enterprise solutions, platforms, and vendor selections for architecture fit and risk alignment.
• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, data, and operations to support holistic IT risk management.
• Communicate complex topics with clear roadmaps and executive-ready materials.

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

Cloud strategy and governance

Regulated environment experience

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Business

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

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Description
+ We are seeking a Principal Architect-Senior (IT) (Enterprise Architect) to help shape technology strategy, governance, modernization, responsible innovation, technology strategy, and IT/AI governance across a regulated financial services environment. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, this role partners with business, technology, risk, compliance, security, data, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and business-aligned solutions.
+ This role is ideal for a collaborative architecture leader who can translate business priorities into practical roadmaps, guide enterprise technology decisions, strengthen governance practices, and influence outcomes across a complex IT environment. The candidate needs to have proven experience influencing business stakeholders and executives using appropriate language and charisma to achieve desired outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
+ Help define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
+ Challenge the business lines on their business architecture and business process to elevate outcomes and facilitate the introduction of complimentary technology solutions.
+ Translate business and technology priorities into actionable architecture guidance, investment themes, and transformation plans.
+ Support architecture and AI governance through standards, principles, decision criteria, guardrails, and architecture review forums.
+ Accountable to create Architecture Decision Records and maintain a central repository of architecture artifacts that have significant reusability.
+ Evaluate enterprise solutions, platforms, integration patterns, emerging technologies, and vendor selections for architecture fit and risk alignment.
+ Help build AI governance practices for responsible AI adoption, AI governance, and AI Risk controls including intake criteria, risk tiering, review guardrails, control alignment, and ongoing oversight.
+ Provide visibility into technology risk, technical debt, platform health, lifecycle obsolescence, resiliency gaps, and regulatory exposure.
+ In collaboration with business partners create technical debt remediation plans that save money while achieving the outcomes desired by the project or program.
+ Partner with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, infrastructure, application, data, and operations teams to support holistic IT risk management.
+ Facilitate alignment across application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture domains.
+ Communicate complex architecture topics through clear roadmaps, decision summaries, risk narratives, and executive-ready materials.
Basic Qualifications
+ Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
+ Minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, IT transformation, or financial services technology leadership.
+ Experience implementing architecture governance practices in regulated, agile, product-centric, or scaled delivery environments.
+ Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
+ Strong understanding of standard architecture patterns such as distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity, resiliency, modern application architecture, and responsible AI governance concepts.
Preferred Experience
+ 12-15 years of experience preferred.
+ Experience in banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated technology environment.
+ Experience across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, cloud, and integration architecture domains.
+ Familiarity with technology risk management, operational resilience, data privacy, vendor governance, audit, or regulatory examination support.
+ Familiarity with AI governance, model risk considerations, responsible AI principles, data governance, privacy, explain ability, and control frameworks in regulated environments.
Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)
Yes
Workplace Type:
Office
Our Approach to Office Workplace Type
Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We're combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.
Compensation Range:
102,000.00 - 208,000.00 USD Annual
The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including, but not limited to, location, experience, and education. Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Tobacco-Free Hiring Practice: Visit Huntington's Career Web Site for more details.
Note to Agency Recruiters: Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.

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**Company Overview**
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**Job Description**
CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Corporate Business Technology team. This role is responsible for designing, governing, and continuously improving the firm's enterprise application architecture in alignment with our Microsoft‑centric, cloud‑first IT strategy. The Senior Enterprise Architect will help define architecture standards, roadmaps, governance models, and reusable patterns that connect business capabilities with scalable, secure, and integrated technology solutions.
This individual will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to support enterprise application strategy across platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Copilot, and ServiceNow APM/Enterprise Architecture. The role includes application portfolio management, capability mapping, rationalization efforts, and evaluation of emerging Microsoft and partner technologies to improve efficiency, integration, and long‑term architectural maturity.
Key Responsibilities:
+ Develop enterprise architecture blueprints across business, application, data, and technology domains.
+ Design integration patterns across enterprise systems using Microsoft Azure services such as API Management, Logic Apps, and related cloud capabilities.
+ Define reference architectures, reusable solution patterns, and architecture guardrails that support secure, scalable, and standardized delivery.
+ Document and maintain architecture standards, roadmaps, solution patterns, and related artifacts within ServiceNow EA/APM or similar tools.
+ Support architecture governance processes, including architecture review boards, solution approvals, and adherence to enterprise standards.
+ Partner with delivery teams and stakeholders as a trusted architecture advisor, helping identify risks, dependencies, and integration challenges across platforms.
+ Contribute to continuous improvement of enterprise architecture practices, maturity, and alignment with target‑state roadmaps.
+ Perform other duties as required.
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**Skills & Abilities**
+ Strong experience in enterprise architecture, application architecture, or a related technology architecture discipline.
+ Working knowledge of TOGAF or similar enterprise architecture frameworks, with the ability to apply architecture principles in practical business and technology contexts.
+ Deep understanding of the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure IaaS/PaaS, integration services, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Copilot.
+ Experience using ServiceNow APM, Enterprise Architecture modules, or comparable tools to support application portfolio management, capability mapping, and rationalization.
+ Ability to translate business strategy into capability models, architecture roadmaps, and practical technology recommendations.
+ Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and advisory skills, including the ability to communicate architecture concepts to business and technology audiences.
+ Expertise in integration architecture, cloud‑native design patterns, and enterprise application modernization.
+ Experience supporting application portfolio management, rationalization, and technology standardization.
**Qualifications**
+ 6 years of related experience.
+ Bachelor's degree.
Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands. Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
**Amount of Travel Required**
No Travel is required
**EEO Statement**
We attract the best people in the industry, supporting their efforts to learn and grow. We strive to create a challenging and progressive work environment. We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations, with projects that our employees plan, design, build and operate as diverse as the needs of our clients. CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as "CDM Smith") reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions. In addition, CDM Smith may conduct drug testing for designated positions. Background checks are conducted after an offer of employment has been made in the United States. The timing of when background checks will be conducted on candidates for positions outside the United States will vary based on country statutory law but in no case, will the background check precede an interview. CDM Smith will conduct interviews of qualified individuals prior to requesting a criminal background check, and no job application submitted prior to such interview shall inquire into an applicant's criminal history. If this position is subject to a background check for any convictions related to its responsibilities and requirements, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history. Criminal history will not automatically disqualify a candidate. In addition, during employment individuals may be required to successfully complete additional background checks, including motor vehicle record as well as drug testing.
**Massachusetts Applicants**
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**Additional Pay Range Information**
CDM Smith is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This pay range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels for the geographic location assigned to the position. In addition to geographic location, a candidate's salary is determined by several other factors including, but not limited to, responsibilities, education, experience, skills, required certifications, and education/training.
**Additional Compensation**
All bonuses at CDM Smith are discretionary and may or may not apply to this position.
**Visa Sponsorship Available**
No-We will not support sponsorship in the United States, i.e. H-1B or TN Visas for this position