Enterprise Architect (IT)

Key Responsibilities

• Help define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• Challenge the business lines on their business architecture and business process to elevate outcomes and facilitate the introduction of complimentary technology solutions.
• 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.
• Create Architecture Decision Records and maintain a central repository of architecture artifacts that have significant reusability.
• 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, AI governance, and AI Risk controls 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.
• In collaboration with business partners create technical debt remediation plans that save money while achieving the outcomes desired by the project or program.
• 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 standard architecture patterns such as distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity, resiliency, modern application architecture, and responsible AI governance concepts.

Preferred Experience

• 12-15 years of experience preferred.
• Experience in banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated technology environment.
• Experience across business, 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.