Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures
• Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives
• Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture
• Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap
• Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives
• Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions
• Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities
• Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity
• Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions
• Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams
• Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards
• Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions
• Promote observability, resiliency, and operational readiness by design
• Review and approve AI solution designs
• Identify opportunities for reusable components
• Guide teams on technical implementation approaches
• Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms
• Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities
• Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions
• Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
• Guide integration with existing enterprise systems

Qualifications

• You must have 10+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
• Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems
• Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
• Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures
• Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)
• Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience
• Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
• Strong programming background in Python and/or Node.js, with the ability to understand and guide implementation-level decisions
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations
• Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures
• Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns
• Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture
• Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders
• Technical Expertise: AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)
• Development using Python and/or Node.js
• Large Language Models and GenAI technologies
• RAG architectures and implementation patterns
• Cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Enterprise integration patterns
• Security and compliance frameworks
• Data architecture and governance

Benefits

Your well-being is of paramount importance and central to our success here at Citco. Citco offers a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package to support your career success and personal needs. Your base salary will be determined by several factors such as the role, experience, skillset, market conditions, etc. Furthermore, qualifying positions can participate in an annual discretionary bonus pool based on company profitability and individual contributions. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, short and long-term disability benefits, a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health and wellness support, parental leave, and more. Additional details about our total rewards package will be shared during the hiring process.