Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Systems

Citizens; Johnston (RI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Senior Architect to oversee technology systems in accounting and finance. This role emphasizes best practices and relationships with business partners. You will manage a pod backlog and drive planning and prioritization of projects within an Agile framework.

The ideal candidate should have deep experience with Oracle E-Business Suite and CI/CD pipelines, along with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. The position offers a hybrid work schedule.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of platform architecture and delivery impacts.
• Ability to pull data using complex SQL queries.
• Experience managing backlogs and sprints in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with pod members to ensure standards are met.
• Manage a pod backlog while translating business needs into work.
• Drive planning and prioritization based on business value.

Skills

Platform architecture

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Ansible, Git)

AWS, Azure, OCI deployment

SQL and query languages

Oracle E-Business Suite (GL/FA/PA/AP)

Angular and Spring Boot

Agile environments

Business/data analysis

Education

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

Job description

Description

As a Senior Architect, you are accountable for what gets built, why it gets built, and the conceptual architecture behind how it gets built across accounting platforms. You will define best practices, methods, standards, and procedures for technology systems across accounting and finance systems. This includes overseeing outputs and documenting internal processes and procedures. This role will require you to establish relationships with business partners to support project and technical solutions. Additionally, you will serve as a point of accountability for delivery within the Accounting Technologies pod, driving initiatives across Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and adjacent financial systems. You will partner closely with business stakeholders, technology leads, and enterprise architecture to ensure solutions are aligned with accounting processes, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements, while enabling scalable delivery within an Agile pod.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and lead other members of the pod (developers, testers, etc.), process owners and leadership to ensure that all elements of proposed solutions meet clearly defined standards.
• Manage a pod backlog, translating business needs into work items with clear acceptance criteria.
• Drive planning and prioritization based on business value, risk, and dependencies.
• Configure solutions that often have custom requirements recommending ways to streamline processes and create efficiencies while ensuring that architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture standards, guidelines, and principles.
• Perform long term trend analysis regarding the implementation of new technological solutions; analyze data gathered and produce reports.
• Collaborate with external vendors to align products with enterprise standards.

Experience

• Solid understanding of platform architecture, challenges and how delivery impacts end users.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Ansible, Git).
• Experience deploying applications to AWS, Azure, and OCI.
• Ability to pull data often by creating complex queries using SQL and other query languages.
• Deep experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, including GL/FA/PA/AP modules.
• Development experience leveraging common frameworks such as Angular and Spring Boot.
• Experience working in cross functional roles, business/data analysis, testing, architecture.
• Ability to take high level business requirements and break them down into technical requirements.
• Experience operating in an Agile environments and managing backlogs/sprints.
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.

Hours & Work Schedule

• Hours per week: 40
• Work schedule: Monday - Friday
• Hybrid: 4 days per week onsite, 1 day remote

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer‑centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth.