Enterprise Architect

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an enterprise architect to shape the digital strategy and target technology ecosystem. In this role, the enterprise architect will drive the creation of the target architecture towards business capabilities that are modular, composable cloud-native services on modernized infrastructure. The enterprise architect will partner with domain architects to design target banking platforms lending to reuse, resiliency, agility, and customer centricity.

The enterprise architect will be a passionate technologist that can go broad as well as deep – must have the experience to operate across the enterprise through the understanding of available technology and tools and be an expert in the solution architecture practice. The candidate must be able to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and possess excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and reasoning skills.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Lead the development of strategy for capabilities across the bank and influence target state architectures with forward-looking architecture principles, data management, and modern technology
• Credibly challenge line of business / domain architecture on alignment to enterprise goals
• Contribute to forward-looking policies, patterns, standards, non-functional requirements, methodologies and industry best practices and work with domain architects to promote adherence
• Provide leadership and guidance at architecture councils, review boards and internal and external architecture forums
• Perform enterprise and portfolio-level analysis to drive investment analysis, rationalization, and convergence strategies
• Support data center migration efforts and understand full stack architecture to migrate dependencies accordingly
• Produce enterprise architecture specifications and documents using industry standard modeling languages and tools
• Drive efforts to ensure resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance of architecture solutions
• Stay current with technology innovations and industry best practices and apply across the enterprise, where valuable
• Transform the Architecture practice

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of architecture in one or a combination of the following areas: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure or security, or security architecture
• 7+ years of experience creating architecture strategy, designs, and patterns
• 7+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of experience with architecting solutions using leading vendor solutions and in-house developed systems

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to influence across all organizational levels, particularly senior management
• Ability to negotiate/challenge, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
• Knowledge and understanding of applications technology management role, including managing applications development and support for multiple systems and business functions
• Ability to identify key issues, involve affected parties, design solutions, obtain buy-in, and communicate effectively through resolution
• Ability to be proactive, innovative and creative in meeting customer and enterprise