Description

Summary:

The Principal Architect-Director will lead a group of teams dedicated to pushing the limits of continuous improvement and innovation of our technology stack and work across the organization to influence our long-term technology strategy and vision for the company.  The   Principal Architect-Director is responsible for strategic and tactical delivery, including maintaining legacy functionality, while moving to next-generation capabilities – across the entire ecosystem.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Enable the effective delivery of business value through key solution architecture decisions, including transformation of ecosystems, lifecycle and processes
• Engage senior business and technology leadership to help them understand the role of technology, engaging them on the overall strategy, managing expectations, and providing creative thought leadership and insights
• Provide thought-leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, leveraging ‘big data’, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence
• Support the strategic goals of the bank, including alignment with strategic capabilities, target architectures & technology standards; Leading the definition and execution of a roadmap to deliver a target state supporting business and enterprise goals
• Manage demand and delivery of tactical and strategic projects that maintain current service levels and address ad-hoc needs, while transitioning to future state; Leading enterprise maturity in data governance, quality and accessibility - while promoting a risk-aware culture, ensuring efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
• Work with vendors and external partners to deliver functionality and support capability development; Maintenance of high-performing ecosystems including the retirement of legacy systems and build-out of next-generation platforms
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience in related field (preferably computer science/management information systems)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a Technology Leadership position 
• 7+ years leading strategy, architecture and execution of projects
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecture and engineering
• Cloud Technology / Architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Strong communication and influencing skills - with demonstrated experience of actions put into place based on presentation to business & technology executives (Director of Technology, CTO, COO, CIO, Business Division Leads)
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on emerging Technologies and Artificial intelligence (AI)
• 15 + years of experience in a Technology Leadership position 
• Cloud Technology / Architecture (GCP)
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Experience in Consumer/retail and commercial/business banking – branch and digital (online/direct) banking
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud
• Experience with security, performance, availability, environment configuration
• Experience with business intelligence, visualization, self-service dashboards, advanced analytics
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems
• Strong organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to plan and prioritize work, manage supply & demand, and build high performing teams
• Proven ability to define and deliver against a strategic roadmap with in-depth understanding of the business strategy to be supported
• Strong communication and influencing skills - with demonstrated experience of actions put into place based on presentation to business & technology executives (Director of Technology, CTO, COO, CIO, Business Division Leads)
   

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

Workplace Type:

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 d