Lead complex enterprise-wide architecture design and validation for strategic platforms (cloud-native, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, etc.) with an eye toward resiliency, scalability, and auditability.
Identify and remediate architectural risk vectors in collaboration with InfoSec, Risk, and Control partners; ensure regulatory and audit readiness is embedded into technical patterns from inception.
Serve as a trusted advisor and partner across the CTO, CISO, Risk, Delivery, and Architecture teams.
Evangelize technical excellence, drive reuse, and reduce duplication and entropy across programs.
Identify architectural bottlenecks and design accelerators that deliver measurable uplift in time-to-market, developer productivity, and security posture.
Partner with Service Delivery leadership to embed engineering standards and observability patterns into the operating model to improve operational maturity and customer experience.
Represent architecture in key forums, working groups, and design review boards. Influence governance policy and engineering standards with a view toward compliance and modernization.
Uses independent judgement and discretion to make decisions, analyzes and resolves problems, performs special projects, and completes required compliance trainings.
Requirements
Education level required: Undergraduate Degree (4 years or equivalent) Computer Science or Engineering.
Minimum experience required: 15+ Years of deep, hands-on engineering experience across multiple technical domains (e.g., application development, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data).
Proven leadership as a Distinguished Engineer, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Fellow in a Fortune 500 or large-scale financial institution.
Extensive experience with regulatory frameworks (OCC, FFIEC, SOX, GLBA) and the ability to design systems and architectures that comply from day one.
Previous experience being a change agent in collaborating with regulatory agencies
Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior executives across technology, security, risk, and operations.
Expertise in threat modeling, architectural risk analysis, and translating control frameworks into actionable engineering guidance.
Track record of shipping resilient, secure systems that operate at scale with minimal manual intervention.
Expert level coding ability in modern programming languages (Python, C#, Golang).
Expert level abilities within cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, COBIT, TOGAF, and SABSA.
Experience in a bank or regulated financial services environment with >$100B in assets (preferred).
Contributions to open-source projects, technical patents, or published whitepapers on enterprise-scale architecture, cybersecurity, or resiliency engineering (preferred).
Strong presentation and storytelling ability; skilled at distilling technical complexity for C-suite and board-level stakeholders.
Ability to facilitate communications to business stakeholders and interact effectively with all levels of management.
Willingness to travel up to 50%
Benefits
medical insurance
dental insurance
vision insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
comprehensive leave program
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