Senior Director-Principal Architect

Provide overall direction, guidance and definition to the organizational architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy. Interact across multiple business areas, proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects to ensure the success of enterprise-level rollouts. Determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems and develop recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects and ensure the success of enterprise-level application rollouts.
• Determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions by conducting business reviews, documenting current systems, and developing recommendations at the capability level.
• Proactively assist in defining future projects. Bring enterprise perspective to all initiatives. Ensure projects comply with enterprise architecture.
• Lead technology direction within and across infrastructure teams. Participate in determination of domain standards, project requirements, and migration plans for infrastructure or business portfolios.
• Develop and ensure compliance with architectural principles and standards for various systems and components. Develop/maintain key strategy artifacts.
• Evaluate current architecture and influence future strategy and road maps with proactive feedback.
• Lead analysis of the current Technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Participate in detailed analysis to align requirements and equipment configurations with defined system specifications.
• Translate customer requirements to process and data requirements.
• Document and support applications and tools consistent with established specifications and business requirements. Document all architecture design and analysis work.
• Research, design, and develop product hardware and software interfaces. Incorporate architectural principles into enterprise architectural design, including opportunities for common services and service reuse.
• Consult with capability development teams to fit/modify architecture to business objectives.
• Research, introduce, and transition new technology into the organization. Keep abreast of Technology advances and issues across all enterprise domains. Research, test, and recommend tools and practices for potential implementation.
• Provide technical assistance to implementation teams. Apply best practices using innovative ideas to increase awareness and effectiveness of enterprise architecture.
• Articulate, advocate, and support the architecture perspective in strategy and delivery discussions with technology and business unit leaders. Publish accurate monthly dashboards.
• Encourage, foster, and participate in cross-portfolio/capability dialogue. Collaborate with business leaders to obtain strategic requirements, colleagues to lead project delivery, vendor partners on product selections, and research partners to understand the industry technology architecture view.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; or related work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience required.
• Work experience in multiple technology areas and 3-4 years of relevant enterprise architecture experience in one or more specialty areas.
• Prior experience in design, development, and implementation of application, data pipeline development at an enterprise level.
• In-depth knowledge of application, information, infrastructure, middleware, and security architectures.
• Experience as a senior-level Data, Solutions, or Technology Architect working on significant enterprise change initiatives.
• Experience with various AWS Cloud native services and other cloud data platforms such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker and SageMaker Studio, Amazon Athena, Snowflake, and Power BI
• Experience with modern data architecture and building large-scale data platforms in the cloud such as lake house design
• Experience with AI/ML model deployment.
• Familiarity with Azure is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience presenting architecture concepts and goals to technology leaders and business partners.
• Financial Services industry specific knowledge that includes a working knowledge of industry standards and architectures.

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small busines