Enterprise Solutions Architect

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Job Description

At Regions, the Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of enterprise architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
• Validates designs produced by third party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
• Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Collaborates on roadmaps to align Information Technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and five years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Experience with Agile methods

Certifications/Licensures

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (BPMN, UML)
• Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)

Additional Responsibilities

• Work closely with banking / financial services business stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, engineers, and governance teams to co-create scalable and secure solutions meeting banking / financial services Risk and Compliance standards. Provide architectural oversight for enterprise modernization initiatives.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience with modern containerized application development and deployment tools and methodologies (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure) architecture principles and available cloud services
• Experience with modern DevOps tooling and principles, CI/CD pipeline design, secure development practices
• Experience in architecture and design of solutions conforming to demanding non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, reliability, operability
• Comprehensive understanding of synchronous and asynchronous processing models and their architectural implications
• Experience with event-driven architecture and design principles and tooling (Kafka preferred)
• Hands-on development, testing and debugging experience with enterprise-level applications and solutions (in both public cloud and on-premises/private cloud environments)
• Proficiency in designing and developing synchronous and asynchronous interfaces (APIs, events and batch processing) using various frameworks and tools
• Knowledge of security protocols and best practices for secure interfaces
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailored to a variety of audiences including business and technical stakeholders, proficient in expressing architectural concepts in diagrams and verbally

Preferred Certifications

• Certifications in public cloud architecture (with a focus on AWS and Microsoft Azure)

Location and Employment Details

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. The locations available for this role are Birmingham AL, Atlanta GA, Charlotte NC.

Position Type

Full time

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

Minimum: $120,156.85 USD

Median: $156,060.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans: This job may participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, not a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please review the Regions careers site for details.

Location Details Riverchase Operations Center Location: Hoover, Alabama

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.