Enterprise Architect (Retail/Consumer Banking) || Remote Work

Job Title: Enterprise Architect (Retail/Consumer Banking)

Location: Buffalo, NY Remote Work

Duration: Long Term Contract

What You'll Be Doing:

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps that align with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology vision.
• Develop high-level architectural models and frameworks to support secure, scalable, and resilient solutions across the bank.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable solution architectures for engineering and delivery teams.
• Ensure all architectural solutions comply with regulations, internal risk frameworks, and data privacy standards.
• Partner with product, business, and technology stakeholders across consumer platforms, client services, and core banking systems.
• Provide architectural oversight and governance throughout delivery, ensuring adherence to standards and execution of high-impact initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing expert architectural insight to inform decision-making.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with external vendors and partners to ensure performance, compliance, and cost-effectiveness of solutions.

Expected Deliverables:

• Architecture Roadmaps: Visual and narrative representations of the existing and target architecture landscapes, including capability maps, system interactions, and technology stacks, that align technology capabilities with business goals across technology domains.
• High-Level Design Documents: Comprehensive documentation for major initiatives or programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business requirements.
• Architecture Principles and Standards: Defined guidelines and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance across technology solutions.
• Technology Assessments and Recommendations: Evaluations of emerging technologies, platforms, or vendor solutions with documented recommendations for adoption or integration.
• Gap Analyses and Impact Assessments: Identification of gaps between current and future states, along with assessments of business and technical impacts.
• Stakeholder Presentations and Briefings: Engaging executive-level presentations that communicate progress and outcomes to business and technology leaders.
• Reference Architectures and Patterns: Reusable templates and design patterns that accelerate solution delivery and promote architectural consistency.

What You'll Need to Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of cloud architecture experience, with 3+ years focused on Retail/Consumer technology within a financial institution.
• Strategic thinking with ability to align enterprise architecture to business outcomes across complex financial ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of consumer banking, customer engagement, risk, compliance, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience designing scalable, secure, and interoperable solutions across modern and legacy systems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Skilled in integrating diverse systems, platforms, and data sources to support seamless customer experiences.
• Experience with cloud, APIs, microservices, data platforms, and integration patterns.
• Proficiency with enterprise architecture tools, modeling techniques, and documentation standards.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, data privacy, and secure architecture best practices.
• Ability to model business capabilities, value streams, and technical landscapes.
• Experience with platforms such as Hogan, Genesys, item processing, ATMs, pricing, and workflow systems.
• Knowledge of institutional banking products including capital markets, M&A, and investment management.
• Proven stakeholder engagement and communication skills at the executive level.
• Experience with agile, DevOps, and product-centric delivery models.
• Knowledge of architectural diagramming practices and software delivery methods.
• Experience leading change, enabling innovation, and driving enterprise transformation.

I look forward hear from you in positive !

Best Regards,