Zions Bancorporation s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today.
We are seeking an Enterprise Architect (SDLC) to join Zions Bancorporation. As an Enterprise Architect focused on SDLC, you will be responsible for defining and ensuring the alignment of software development processes with the organization's business strategy and objectives. This role involves overseeing the architecture of software solutions, ensuring they meet both functional and non-functional requirements, and guiding development teams through the implementation of these solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and Govern Solution Architecture:
- Develop and document architecture content for specific stakeholder audiences to enable business or organizational outcomes.
Address the needs and concerns of business and organizational stakeholders, producing corresponding functional and non-functional requirements. - Ensure the solution architecture document captures architecture concerns and decisions, and is presented to project and architecture review boards.
- System Design Activities:
- Gather and analyze system requirements, including understanding the system s purpose, functionality, performance expectations, constraints, and user needs.
- Define the high-level structure and organization of the system, identifying major components, their responsibilities, and interactions.
- Decompose the system into smaller subsystems or modules, specifying interfaces and functionality.
- Design individual components or modules, specifying internal structure, algorithms, and data structures.
- Design data structures and databases, defining data schema, relationships, and access mechanisms.
- Architecture Governance:
- Ensure solution architecture alignment to the enterprise architecture blueprint.
- Review and approve EA artifacts such as reference architecture, patterns, standards, and solution architectures.
- Participate in Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release Trains, utilizing the Solution Architect role.
- Collaboration and Communication:
- Partner with the EA team to ensure architecture standards, guidelines, and procedures are followed.
- Provide architecture support on individual technology solutions and significant design changes to in-flight projects and initiatives.
- Promote awareness of cross-functional activities, best practices, new standards, emerging technologies, defined processes, and decisions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and 8+ years of directly related experience. A combination of education and experience may meet qualifications.
- Proven experience in enterprise architecture, with a focus on SDLC.
- Familiarity with TOGAF and other industry frameworks.
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies and processes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to document and present architecture content effectively.
Work Location:
This position will be a hybrid work schedule (3 days a week in office) at the new Zions Technology Center in Midvale, UT.
The Zions Technology Center is a 400,000-square-foot technology campus in Midvale, Utah. Located on the former Sharon Steel Mill superfund site, the sustainably built campus is the company s primary technology and operations center. This modern and environmentally friendly technology center enables Zions to compete for the best technology talent in the state while providing team members with an exceptional work environment with features such as:
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
- Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA) and dependent care accounts
- Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
- 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
- Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
- Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
- Employee Ambassador preferred banking products
- Employees may, at the company s discretion, be eligible to receive a cash bonus award
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