Enterprise Architect Principal

PNC Financial Services Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group seeks an Enterprise Architect Principal to drive enterprise technologies and align them with strategic business goals. This remote position focuses on optimizing current data technology portfolios, leveraging cloud and AI, and requires collaboration with stakeholders to enhance operational efficiencies. Candidates should have a strong background in enterprise architecture, communications, and an ability to influence executive decisions.

Benefits

Medical/prescription drug coverage

Dental and vision options

401(k) with match

Pension and stock purchase plans

Educational assistance

Robust wellness program with incentives

Qualifications

• 8+ years industry experience, preferably in financial services.
• Certifications in strategic frameworks are desirable.
• Broad understanding of technology capability models.

Responsibilities

• Develop data architecture reference architectures and roadmaps.
• Consult with stakeholders to shape technology strategy.
• Create architecture artifacts to measure progress against strategy.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Relationship Building

Influencing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

SAFe

TOGAF

ITIL

Systems Engineering

Job description

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. As an Enterprise Architect Principal within PNC’s Enterprise Architecture organization. This is a remote position. Work may be performed from a quiet, confidential space in a home location, approved by PNC. This position may not be available in all geographic locations.

This position will be accountable for working across the bank to develop data architecture reference architectures and roadmaps focused on platforms including cloud and AI. The position drives technology portfolio optimization using industry best practices such as lean, SAFe, TOGAF, and Systems Engineering.

The Enterprise Architect Principal will partner with business stakeholders, technology teams, and our EA teams to drive data technology investments that optimize and transform our current data technology portfolio to meet our current and future business and operational capability needs.

The role also will assess and drive data exchange technologies that will allow us to modularize and autonomize application software that will ensure we improve operational efficiencies and simplify the complexity of data exchanges while maintaining data lineage using architecture patterns.

Key deliverables in partnership with the other stakeholders are:
•Build strategies that guide business and CIO aligned meeting their needs for data technologies
•Create usable architecture artifacts that measure and demonstrate progress against a strategy
•Develop common architecture patterns that bring siloed organizations together
•Contribute to an architecture organization and cross LOB partnerships and processes
•Guide at multiple organizational levels the priorities and metrics that ensure objectives are met
•Measures progress against objectives with follow-up when results are or are not achieved
•Provide thought leadership in technology selection analysis to achieve an organization’s objectives
•Serve as a "trusted advisor" interfacing with executive stakeholders
•Articulates the business impact of technology decisions and facilitate decision making
•Engages with business and CIO team’s planning and design initiatives to identify opportunities
•Create the architecture analysis with supporting artifacts to drive technology recommendations
Some specific accountabilities:
•Review any proposed new technologies, including SaaS and PaaS technology for portfolio fit
•Assess and manage the changes to the enterprise technology capability model
•Participate in the EA, Data, and Security Communities of Practice and Working Groups
•Drive technology roadmapping sessions as well as reference data architectures used in patterns
•Present at Executive and Director level meetings to drive data technology strategies and roadmaps

Some key desired skills:
•Enterprise systems thinking & broad understanding of managing to a capability model
•Strategic thinking and planning with a proactive approach to anticipate their needs and objectives
•Experience on large strategic transformation programs
•Experience working in financial services organizations with AI and Cloud technologies
•Personal skills: Communication, Relationship Building, Collaboration, Influencing
•Certifications in SAFe, TOGAF, ITIL, and Systems Engineering are desirable but not required

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

This is a remote position. Work may be performed from a quiet, confidential space in a home location, approved by PNC. This position may not be available in all geographic locations.

Job Description

• Plans and leads major enterprise strategies for significant and complex enterprise technology solutions by applying subject matter expertise in enterprise architecture, incorporating experience from across all the architecture domains of business, technology, data, application and security.
• Maintains relationships with stakeholders, addresses requirements and provides consultation to shape the success of enterprise technology strategy. Leads and drives consensus across enterprise stakeholders for understanding strategic requirements, their associated tradeoffs, and enterprise impacts of recommended target state.
• Consults, leads and facilitates the creation of major, complex technology solutions in support of business strategies.
• Creates the strategic roadmaps for implementing recommended target architectures and facilitates and drives the interim architecture states and roadmaps and recommendations for the technology.
• Supports the growth and provides guidance to architects, engineers and other technology professionals on the architecture practice and strategic analysis and solution design.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills

Competitive Advantages, Customer Solutions, Design, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Machine Learning, Risk Assessments, Technical Knowledge

Competencies

Consulting, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise IT Architecture, Industry Knowledge, IT Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture Technologies, Solutions Development

Work Experience

Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree. Higher level education such as a Masters degree, or PhD is desirable. Industry experience is typically 8 + years. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education

Bachelors

Certifications

No Required Certification(s)

Licenses

No Required License(s)

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $100,000.00 – $254,150.00Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

Application Window

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 03/04/2025, although it may be longer with business discretion.

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 8 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

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