Senior Enterprise Architect - Cloud, Governance & Strategy

Jobtailor

Arizona

On-site

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architecture leader to drive architectural strategy for the Specialty Deposits domain within the financial services ecosystem. You will shape standards, reference architectures, and governance while collaborating with business, product, and IT partners to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable solutions.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise architecture, a Bachelor's degree, and strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

10+ years of related experience, preferably with enterprise architecture.
Bachelor's degree in related field required.
Previous leadership experience preferred.
Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking preferred.
Intermediate knowledge of regulatory and legal compliance obligations.
Data-driven and POV on POC results; unbiased toward tech or vendor choices.
Advanced architecture function experience with reference architectures and governance.
Knowledge of application development, cloud compute, storage/networking, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, serverless, containers, automation, and security.

Responsibilities

Define and lead architectural priorities advancing business and technology strategy within a specific domain.
Participate in Architecture Standards Board and Technology Review Board governance forums.
Manage the business capability inventory for the domain.
Develop domain standards and patterns and bring them to the Architecture Standards Board for approval.
Design and document solution architecture for applications and capabilities.
Collaborate with business, product, and IT teams to ensure designs are safe, secure, compliant, reliable, and aligned with business needs.
Review solution architecture designs in the Technology Review Board and ensure alignment with approved standards and patterns.
Advocate for architecture principles, standards, and patterns across the organization.
Partner strategically with delivery organization leaders and senior engineers.
Identify and lead opportunities to advance domain capabilities through new technology and reuse of products, services, and platforms.
Incorporate opportunities into application and platform roadmaps.
Facilitate proofs of concept and pilots for new and emerging technology.
Represent Application, Infrastructure, and Security capabilities and solutions in discussions with IT and business leaders.
Develop options and recommendations based on domain problems and opportunities.
Build relationships with segment and business partners, product managers, and product engineering teams.
Understand current-state business processes, functional capabilities, and the technology ecosystem.
Assess domain maturity and develop architecture strategy, roadmaps, and designs for Specialty Deposits platforms and capabilities.
Evaluate emerging technology trends and their practical application to business and operating models.
Facilitate evaluation and selection of software product standards and services.
Design standard and custom software configurations.
Work with product owners and product managers to maintain an architectural runway for future requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Monitor the solution portfolio and identify deficiencies caused by aging technologies.
Support efforts to drive delivery functions toward Agile and DevOps/FinOps delivery models.
Develop content for and communicate with executive stakeholders, engineering teams, and Scrum teams.