Principal Architect (Remote)

Company: Citizens
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

Description

As Principal Architect - Software Engineering, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the organization. The Principal Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform. The Principal Architect will work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including: business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results. The Principal Architect is capable of presenting designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to Technology and business senior management.

The Principal Architect - Software Engineering Will Be Responsible For

• Participating in code and design reviews with teams of software, network and cloud engineers to ensure that solutions meet current enterprise standards; ensuring the cybersecurity of proposed solutions. Applying specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives.
• Designing and handling solutions that provide frameworks, interfaces, and services that can be extended and reused across the portfolio, ensuring that architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture standards, guidelines and principles.
• Frequently collaborating with other functional teams' leadership and engineers to align and use solutions. Contributing to technology direction, develop architecture and influence implementation to gain measurable business improvements.
• Providing post-implementation support to project stakeholders, such as training and troubleshooting. Applying analysis based on research and introspection to recommend solutions.
• Performing long-term trend analysis regarding the implementation of new technological solutions; analyzing data gathered and produce reports.
• Reviewing performance and control reports; determining the appropriate course of action to improve performance when necessary. Extending business product innovation through the introduction, adoption and implementation of technology.
  Required Skills/Experience
  
  Qualifications
  
  • 8+ years of Java development or solutions architecture experience
  • Expertise with modern, Agile-based application development methodologies and emerging technologies like microservices, API management, web-scale architectures, container-based delivery, cloud automation, TDD, BDD, continuous integration (CI), and CD.
  • Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
  • Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
  • Experience using system and process analysis
  • Strong communication skills; ability to facilitate technical conversations with non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies.
  • Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL is a must for Principal and up.
  • Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
  • Experience building cloud-native applications
  • Experience with API's
  • 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.
  • 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
  • Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing(AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field
    Desired Qualifications
    
    • Experience in the financial services industry; understanding of the role of consumer and custodial banks; experience handling sensitive financial data
    • Strong business analysis, solutions crafting, interaction management and presentation skills.
    • Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
    • UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
      Education and Certifications
      
      • Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related foreign discipline
        Why Work for Us
        
        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.
        
        Equal Employment Opportunity
        
        It is the policy of Citizens Bank to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.
        
        Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran
        
        Citizens Bank is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and each of its respective subsidiaries.
        
        Why Work for Us
        
        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.
        
        Equal Employment Opportunity
        
        Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability or perceived 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.
        
        Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran
        
        Citizens is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and each of its respective affiliates. 214042
        

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