Enterprise Architect (IT)

Huntington National Bank; Hagerstown (MD); On-site; USD 102,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking a Principal Architect-Senior (IT) to shape technology strategy and governance within a regulated financial environment. This role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver scalable and business-aligned solutions.

The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, strong knowledge of cloud platforms, and governance practices. They will enjoy a competitive salary range of $102K to $208K annually, along with various benefits including health insurance and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or financial services technology.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience in implementing architecture governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy and modernization roadmaps.
• Evaluate solutions and integration patterns for architecture fit.
• Communicate complex architecture topics clearly.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Technology strategy

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Cybersecurity

Responsible AI governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Summary

We are seeking a Principal Architect-Senior (IT) to help shape technology strategy, governance, modernization, responsible innovation, and 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.

Description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architectures, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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 distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity, resiliency, modern application architecture, and responsible AI governance concepts.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated technology environment.
• Experience across 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, explainability, and control frameworks in regulated environments.

Exempt Status

Yes (not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

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).

Equal Opportunity Employer

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Recruiter Note

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.