Overview As Principal Architect in Global Technology Enterprise Architecture, you shape target-state architecture and strategy to empower cross-functional teams and enable strategic decision-making. You influence multiple products and domains, driving adoption of advanced architectural methods and AI-enabled capabilities with governance and security in mind. You'll partner across domains to reduce duplication, establish reusable frameworks, and accelerate delivery of strategic, global solutions. This is a chance to impact scale, resilience, and innovation at a leading financial institution.
Compensation / Benefits- competitive base salary
- bonus/incentive potential
- comprehensive health care
- retirement savings plan
- tuition reimbursement
- mental health support
Responsibilities- Advise and lead architecture strategy for a portfolio of products, applications and technologies
- Translate complex technical issues to leadership to guide strategic decisions on target state architecture
- Drive adoption of modern development methodologies across teams
- Establish and lead an architecture governance body
- Create durable, reusable software frameworks to improve velocity and quality
- Partner across domains to reduce tooling duplication and maintain governance
- Improve decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and architectural guardrails
- Evaluate emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and adoption readiness
- Lead reuse-first adoption of enterprise-approved AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation
- Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted workflows aligning with resiliency and security standards
- Champion diversity, inclusion, and respect
Key requirements- 7+ years of applied architecture experience and formal training or certification
- Experience delivering system design, application development, testing and operational stability
- Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines
- Proven ability to influence across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
- Experience applying methods to solve complex architecture problems across disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to shape future state architecture
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure Architecture areas (ITSM, Monitoring/Observability, Cloud Compute/Storage, Application Integration, IT Asset Management, Network and Systems Administration)
- Strong understanding of hybrid/multi-cloud operations (resilience, identity, secrets, networking, secure operations)
- Advanced certifications in cloud, enterprise architecture, ITSM, SRE, or security
- Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI with validation and data-sensitivity awareness
- Strategic influence across multiple stakeholders
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strong communication and leadership
- Cloud-native architecture
- ITSM and SRE practices
- Monitoring and Observability
