Location: Columbus, OH
Compensation: $93000 – $189000 Annual
Location: Fully Remote — Columbus, OH
As a member of a solution architecture team, you will partner with experience owners and work with product development teams to design and implement architecture that enables quality of highly integrated applications. You will be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional scrum team, aligned with one or more product workstreams to develop and deliver digital solutions that push the limits of continuous improvement and innovation of the technology stack. The Sr. Principal Enterprise Solution Architect will also work with business and IT leadership to develop and maintain product-level roadmaps supporting business and technology strategies.
Primary Responsibilities
Facilitate adherence to architecture standards and patterns
Oversee architecture at a program level initiative
Define non-functional requirements to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
Partner with the business to identify operational and financial efficiencies
Analyze high-level functional requirements defined by the business
Provide direction and clarity for Application Architects
Design system integration patterns
Provide oversight, governance, and support for federated architecture
Ensure Application Architects are in alignment with solutions
Identify technical constraints
Identify technical debt and recommend paths to resolution
Influence technology and vendor decisions
Secondary Responsibilities
Design and evaluate proofs of concept and prototypes
Periodic analysis and refresh of architecture standards and patterns
Provide support for target state architecture designs
Consult for technology roadmaps
Primarily Works With
Business partners
Product Managers
Chief Segment Architects, Enterprise Architects, Other Enterprise Solution Architects, Application Architects
Deliverables
Conceptual and/or logical architecture solutions for high level initiatives, incorporating remediation of technical debt when possible
Use cases and examples to showcase architecture standards and patterns
Proposals for new/updated standards and patterns
Non-functional requirement definitions
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of professional experience in IT preferably as an architect
5+ years of experience working as Solution Architect across multiple domains of architecture (i.e. business, technology, data, application, and infrastructure)
Bachelor's Degree or 4+ years of equivalent experience as a solution architect or related work
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of professional experience in IT preferably as an architect
Understanding of general architecture principles
1-3+ years of experience with AI models, LLMs, AI/ML, or tool automation
Experience with Cloud solution enablement, preferred GCP and/or AWS
Experience working with SOA, microservices, and modern web application frameworks
Professional working experience as a developer, understanding of SDLC and delivering quality code
Ability to apply architecture principles to Agile and Waterfall delivery
Proven ability to provide architecture direction on small to large sized project/initiatives
Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
Banking industry experience, including regulation and risk
High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility as a trusted advisor with leadership, team members, and business partners
Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
Knowledge of ArchiMate Enterprise Architecture Modeling Language
Soft skills training or experience, participation in architecture-related courses or workshops, peer mentoring
Experience with TOGAF or equivalent architecture frameworks
Compensation: $93000 – $189000 Annual