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Applicants must have experience in payments, private banking, and wealth systems, with expertise in products, solutions architecture and aligning technology to business goals focused on BNPL, Open Banking, cross-border payments, and external networks)
As Distinguished Architect, you will be responsible for groundbreaking integration support across multiple technological and/or business platforms. The distinguished architect is capable of leading a team of architects and works alongside senior management, software engineers and technologists to ensure the strategic alignment of technological solutions and business objectives. The Distinguished Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight across a portfolio of Company Platforms. The Distinguished architect is capable of presenting designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to executive technology and business leadership.
Applicants must have experience in payments, private banking, and wealth systems, with expertise in products, solutions architecture and aligning technology to business goals focused on BNPL, Open Banking, cross-border payments, and external networks)
As Distinguished Architect, you will be responsible for groundbreaking integration support across multiple technological and/or business platforms. The distinguished architect is capable of leading a team of architects and works alongside senior management, software engineers and technologists to ensure the strategic alignment of technological solutions and business objectives. The Distinguished Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight across a portfolio of Company Platforms. The Distinguished architect is capable of presenting designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to executive technology and business leadership.
The Distinguished Architect Will Be Responsible For
Developing architectural strategy roadmap across assigned business and technology platforms, ensuring enterprise-level consistency and alignment.
Guiding end to end solution architecture for banking applications, ensuring scalability and security.
Establishing and communicating strategy to executive staff, industry partners and customers; Providing consultation, design input, technical direction and feedback for consistent Company Platform architectural approaches across portfolio Principal Architects and senior engineering leadership.
Driving and developing product and solution strategies that inform product requirements and investment decisions for Company Platforms across the organization, weaving the enterprise technology vision into the planning and investment processes.
15+ years of working experience in payments, private banking and wealth systems, with expertise in products, solutions architecture and aligning technology to business goals, demonstrated through a proven track record of developing impactful solutions
~ Experience with BNPL, Open Banking, cross-border payments and external networks
~ Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements and/or pivots, including pilot implementation and analysis
~ Excellent understanding of DevSec0ps, Multi-Cloud Implementation Architecture
~ Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
~ Experience working with IT infrastructure and cloud development
~ Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
~ Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
~ Experience building cloud-native applications
~ Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
~ A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field
~ Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
~ A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related discipline
10+ years of working experience in the financial services industry with an added focus on Private Banking, Wealth and Payment Systems
~ UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
~ Comfortable/experience navigating large corporate structure
~ Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline
Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
The salary range for this position is $160,000 - $210,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth
Employment type Full-time
Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
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