Role : Lead Principal Architect IV
Location: Columbus & Akron, OH & Detroit, MI
Duration: 6 Months C2H
MOI : Telephonic & Skype
Primary Skills: COMPLIANCE, RETAIL, Commercial, Risk
Need Candidates with a Minimum of 12 Years of Experience. This is 100% Onsite role and Need Candidates on W2.
Candidates must have Financial Experience.
Job Description:
We are seeking a strategic and experienced Senior IT Business Architect to lead the alignment of banking business objectives with modern technology capabilities. This role will be pivotal in driving application modernization, digital transformation, and enterprise architecture initiatives across the bank. The ideal candidate will have deep financial services experience, strong business acumen, and a proven ability to guide legacy-to-modern transitions in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with business units (Retail, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, etc.) to define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies aligned with banking goals.
- Lead the development of business capability models, value streams, and process architectures tailored to financial services.
- Drive application modernization efforts, including legacy system assessments, cloud migration strategies, and adoption of modern platforms (e.g., microservices, APIs, containers).
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, and engineering teams to ensure cohesive delivery of modernized applications.
- Facilitate workshops to identify capability gaps, regulatory impacts, and transformation opportunities.
- Support strategic planning, investment prioritization, and portfolio governance for IT initiatives.
- Ensure architecture compliance with banking regulations (e.g., FFIEC, OCC, FDIC), data privacy standards, and internal governance frameworks.
- Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., AI, cloud-native platforms, low-code tools) for applicability in banking operations.