Lead Archer Architect

Title: Lead Archer Architect-W2
Duration: 12-month contract-to-hire
Location: Jersey City, NJ / Dallas, TX / Tampa, FL
Hybrid: Yes, 3 days onsite per week
Hours: 40 Hours Per Week

Job Description

The Lead Archer Architect will own the architectural direction and technical decision-making for the RSA Archer platform within the GRC Archer Team. This is a senior individual-contributor role requiring Associate Director-level maturity, combining deep hands-on RSA Archer expertise with enterprise architecture, integration, security, and GRC knowledge.

The architect will translate complex governance, risk, regulatory, compliance, and security requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable Archer solutions. The position will guide application design, workflows, access controls, reporting, integrations, data flows, platform performance, releases, upgrades, and production readiness.

This individual will work closely with Risk & Compliance, Security, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, and external vendors while influencing major technical decisions without relying on formal people-management authority.

Additional Notes:

• Candidates should have substantial hands-on RSA Archer architecture experience, not simply general GRC experience.
• Financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
• The position requires someone capable of providing technical leadership and influencing cross-functional teams without direct management authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead target-state architecture and technical roadmaps for RSA Archer capabilities, integrations, platform health, and lifecycle management.
• Translate GRC and regulatory requirements into sustainable Archer applications, workflows, access models, reports, and dashboards.
• Design and govern data feeds and REST API integrations with Snowflake, Navex, ProcessUnity, identity services, and other enterprise systems.
• Establish architecture decision records, configuration standards, testing expectations, release controls, and production-readiness criteria.
• Evaluate security, performance, resilience, maintainability, and technical-debt trade-offs for significant platform decisions.
• Lead technical delivery across cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Resolve technical ambiguity, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Own platform-health and technical-risk reduction strategies covering upgrades, incidents, performance, testing, and support readiness.
• Drive knowledge transfer, runbook quality, and operating practices that reduce dependency on individual experts.
• Provide architectural direction across Risk & Compliance, Security, Engineering, Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and vendor stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Substantial hands-on experience architecting and configuring RSA Archer solutions within enterprise environments.
• Strong RSA Archer architecture experience across:
• Applications
• Workflows
• Access controls
• Dashboards
• Reporting
• Data feeds
• REST APIs
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and maintainable GRC integrations and enterprise data flows.
• Experience governing RSA Archer platform upgrades, releases, testing, performance, and production readiness.
• Experience identifying and addressing platform technical risk and technical debt.
• Working development proficiency with at least one of the following:
• Python
• Java
• .NET
• Experience using development skills for integration and/or automation scenarios.
• Ability to translate governance, risk, compliance, security, and business requirements into architecture and technical decisions.
• Experience leading complex technical outcomes through influence and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Skills

• RSA Archer integrations with Snowflake.
• RSA Archer integrations with Navex.
• RSA Archer integrations with ProcessUnity.
• Experience modernizing or stabilizing GRC platforms.
• Experience within regulated financial-services environments.
• Experience with ServiceNow IRM and/or MetricStream in addition to RSA Archer.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Soft Skills

• Strong architectural judgment and technical decision-making.
• Ability to balance GRC requirements with security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.
• Strong communication with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to influence teams without formal authority.
• Strong written architecture documentation and decision-record skills.
• Structured problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and under delivery pressure.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across business, security, engineering, operations, and vendor teams.
• Ownership mindset around platform health, production readiness, knowledge transfer, and sustainable support.