Principal Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Applies enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

Job Responsibilities

• Target architecture leadership
• Defines end-to-end target architectures for Consumer & Community Banking cross-product initiatives, including operating model implications, dependency mapping, and migration strategy.
• Establishes reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for consistent delivery across teams.

Domain-driven design & boundary definition

• Led domain discovery and modeling workshops with Product, Engineering, Ops, Risk/Controls, and Data stakeholders.
• Produces clear bounded contexts, context maps, canonical domain language, and ownership decisions (systems of record, decision rights, data stewardship).
• Defines integration patterns and contracts (APIs, events, schemas), and drives adoption across product lines.

Modernization & innovation (including AI)

• Identifies modernization opportunities such as decomposition, platform consolidation, cloud/hybrid adoption, resiliency, observability, and data lineage.
• Incorporates emerging AI capabilities responsibly—domain-aware copilots/assistants, intelligent document processing, and decisioning support—while addressing governance, model risk, privacy, and security requirements.
• Pairs with engineering teams to pilot innovations, define success metrics, and scale what works.

Executive-level partnership & business alignment

• Translates business strategy into architectural decisions, sequencing, and investment trade-offs.
• Collaborates with senior heads of Product and Technology to shape roadmaps, prioritize capabilities, manage cross-product dependencies, and communicate architecture clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Risk, resilience, and controls

• Ensures architectures meet expectations for regulatory compliance, security, resiliency, data protection, auditability, and embed “secure-by-design” and “controls-by-design” practices in target-state patterns and delivery plans.