
Senior Enterprise Architect
CITCON
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- 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
- Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions
- 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
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards
- 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
- Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms
- Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions.
- Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
- Guide integration with existing enterprise systems.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- A challenging and rewarding role in an award-winning global business.
- Opportunities for personal and professional career development.
- Great working environment, competitive salary and benefits, and opportunities for educational support.
- Comprehensive and competitive total rewards package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, short and long-term disability benefits, retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health and wellness support, parental leave, and more.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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