Remote Principal Architect — Cloud-Native Banking

Citizens Financial

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

6 days ago
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100% remote work permitted from any US

Job summary

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location to drive end-to-end architecture for core banking applications.

The role requires strong leadership in cloud-native, microservices, and security practices, collaborating with business, product, software engineering, and cyber security teams. Responsibilities include delivering scalable, low-latency solutions using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, while guiding technical direction and architecture

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience as Principal Architect or similar role involving software development.

Responsibilities

  • Provide end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of banking applications using Agile and Cloud technologies (AWS, PaaS, Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Present designs to architecture review board and senior management for evaluation and approval.
  • Lead building scalable, highly available, low-latency, high-throughput applications using microservices and modern tech (Java, NodeJS, GraphQL, React).

Skills

Microservice development
NoSQL databases
AWS Cloud
CI/CD pipelines
Architecture leadership
Java/Springboot
NodeJS/TypeScript/GraphQL
Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Lucidchart
Sparx Enterprise Architect
Microsoft Visio
IBM MQ
Tomcat
Swagger/OpenAPI
Kubernetes
AWS tooling (EC2/Lambda/RDS)

Job description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location to drive end-to-end architecture for core banking applications.

The role requires strong leadership in cloud-native, microservices, and security practices, collaborating with business, product, software engineering, and cyber security teams. Responsibilities include delivering scalable, low-latency solutions using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, while guiding technical direction and architecture

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