Senior Enterprise Architect - Platform Strategy Leader

Citizens

Johnston (RI)

Hybrid

USD 182,000 - 254,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Education reimbursement

Wellness programs

Generous PTO

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Distinguished Architect to lead a team of architects and shape enterprise architecture across multiple platforms. You will mentor peers, align architectural strategy with business goals, and present designs to an Architecture Review Board and executives.

You will influence product directions, drive investments, and ensure resilient, scalable solutions across cloud-native environments. Strong leadership, deep technical breadth, and excellent communication are essential for

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline.
15+ years of working experience in web-development or solutions architecture, with a proven track record of developing consumer-facing and internal solutions.
Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements and/or pivots, including pilot implementation and analysis.
Excellent understanding of DevOps; Chef and Puppet technique.
Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
Experience working with IT infrastructure and cloud development.
Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies.
Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting.
Experience building cloud-native applications
Experience with API’s
Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
5+ years of working experience in the financial services industry
UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
Comfortable/experience navigating large corporate structure
Executive speaking and presentation skills- Formal presentations, white-boarding, large and small group presentations

Responsibilities

Leading a team of architects; offering guidance, thought leadership and ensuring proper resource allocation to deliver top-quality solutions.
Developing architectural strategy across assigned Company Platforms, ensuring enterprise-level consistency and alignment.
Establishing and communicating strategy to executive staff, industry partners and customers; using recognized technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and craft business strategy and decision-making at the highest interpersonal levels.
Providing consultation, design input, technical direction and feedback for consistent Company Platform architectural approaches across portfolio Principal Architects and senior engineering leadership.
Driving and developing product and solution strategies that inform product requirements and investment decisions for Company Platforms across the organization, weaving the enterprise technology vision into the planning and investment processes.