Description

Summary

We are seeking a Principal Architect-Senior (IT) to help shape technology strategy, governance, modernization, responsible innovation, and AI governance across a regulated financial services environment. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, this role partners with business, technology, risk, compliance, security, data, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and business-aligned solutions.

This role is ideal for a collaborative architecture leader who can translate business priorities into practical roadmaps, guide enterprise technology decisions, strengthen governance practices, and influence outcomes across a complex IT environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architectures, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• Translate business and technology priorities into actionable architecture guidance, investment themes, and transformation plans.
• Support architecture and AI governance through standards, principles, decision criteria, guardrails, and architecture review forums.
• Evaluate enterprise solutions, platforms, integration patterns, emerging technologies, and vendor selections for architecture fit and risk alignment.
• Help build AI governance practices for responsible AI adoption, including intake criteria, risk tiering, review guardrails, control alignment, and ongoing oversight.
• Provide visibility into technology risk, technical debt, platform health, lifecycle obsolescence, resiliency gaps, and regulatory exposure.
• Partner with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, infrastructure, application, data, and operations teams to support holistic IT risk management.
• Facilitate alignment across application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture domains.
• Communicate complex architecture topics through clear roadmaps, decision summaries, risk narratives, and executive-ready materials.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, IT transformation, or financial services technology leadership.
• Experience implementing architecture governance practices in regulated, agile, product-centric, or scaled delivery environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity, resiliency, modern application architecture, and responsible AI governance concepts.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated technology environment.
• Experience across application, data, infrastructure, security, cloud, and integration architecture domains.
• Familiarity with technology risk management, operational resilience, data privacy, vendor governance, audit, or regulatory examination support.
• Familiarity with AI governance, model risk considerations, responsible AI principles, data governance, privacy, explain ability, and control frameworks in regulated environments.

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Yes

Workplace Type:

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds:  in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range:

102,000.00 - 208,000.00 USD Annual

The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education.  Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.