Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Develop and nurture strong, trusted relationships with key business and technology stakeholders
  • Offer technical guidance on enterprise-wide initiatives, helping select and guide the implementation of appropriate technologies
  • Deliver new insights, support strategy execution, and guide the implementation of innovative, scalable, and standardized solutions that drive the bank’s digital vision and customer-centric transformation
  • Take part in strategic planning sessions for both business and technology, and help create roadmaps for business and technical capabilities
• Architecture and Governance:
  • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to clarify strategic direction, assess business capabilities, and architect practical solutions that enhance customer engagement and experience
  • Develop and mature target-state architectures and strategic roadmaps for one or more business segments and/or business capability domains
  • Set target-state architectures that address business, data, application, infrastructure, and security needs, while managing baseline architectures to reduce technical debt and portfolio simplification
  • Promote straightforward, standardized, scalable, and automated solutions guided by Zions’ philosophy and architectural principles
• Leadership and EA Practice:
  • Mature the Enterprise Architecture practice horizontally across banking domains and across our core banking and deposit systems
  • Keep up to date on emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices and mentor others in Architecture thinking
  • Champion and enable innovation and AI

Qualifications

• Proven ability to drive change and lead identification and documentation of enterprise architectures that meet specific business goals
• Skilled at producing strategic focused written content and delivering formal presentations
• Communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, and technical teams
• Experience in architecting and supporting engineering designs of complex solutions
• Leverage systems-thinking to ensure breadth and depth of architectures
• Excel in both verbal and written communication skills
• Possess hands-on expertise across multiple technical fields or has advanced from traditional development roles into architecture or leadership
• Listen actively, resolve conflicts, negotiate, and lead business leaders and project teams toward optimal outcomes through collaboration
• Understand architectural principles for integrating transactional, analytical, and collaborative systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Technology Management, or a related field, plus more than eight years in enterprise architecture or IT leadership within highly regulated industries
• Plus: Experience in banking or other financial services sectors
• Experience in marketing, investment services, banking service fulfillment, or call center and customer service
• Knowledge of core banking systems such as TCS BaNCS, FIS, Fiserv, and ACI Worldwide
• Knowledge of SAFe Agile methodology
• Working understanding and certifications in related frameworks such as TOGAF and BIAN
• Knowledge of regulatory direction and industry related frameworks (e.g., FFIEC controls) or other experience in highly regulated industries

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
• Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA) and dependent care accounts
• Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
• Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
• Employee Ambassador preferred banking products