IT Platform Architect Senior Principal (Financial Services Industry Experience)

About the Role:

Owns architectural responsibilities in defining and supporting the implementation of modern Infrastructure platforms, methodologies, programs, processes, standards, organization structure, metrics and approaches in support and growth of our business.

What You Will Do:

• Drives the architectural effectiveness of business capability-related initiatives within the organization.
• Owns maintenance of the current state architecture while envisioning future state architecture aligned with product objectives. Develops technology roadmaps to smoothly transition from the current state to the desired future state.
• Architects solutions that address specific business capabilities and non-functional requirements.
• Designs solutions to advance and optimize the enterprise infrastructure.
• Evaluates technology, market trends and industry plus identifies prospective impact on business.
• Promotes architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise information technology.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural best practices and standards.
• Collaborates closely with senior business and technology leaders, including product management, business, engineering, and operations.
• Aligns business and technology strategy, ensuring seamless communication across multiple levels within the organization.
• Develops architecture roadmap on basis of IT strategies and business requirements.
• Defines and establishes technical strategies, standards, and guidelines in collaboration with other architects.
• Creates logical architecture diagrams to support large, complex, and cross-capability area initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent education and work experience. Master's degree preferred.
• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s or equivalent.
• Proficient with major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• 12+ years of varied experience implementing all aspects of solution architecture. Exposure to application development, integration, information management, infrastructure, and information security domains.
• 10+ years of complex enterprise experience leading architecture efforts. Subject matter expertise across varying technology and business disciplines.
• 10+ years of architecture scalable, secure, highly available, and fault tolerant technical solutions.
• 6+ years of major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• 6+ years of understanding of cloud security principles and practices, including secure software development, threat modeling, and incident response.
• 5+ years of banking or financial services and products domain experience. Comparable domain experience will also be considered.
• Proven success in planning, influencing, and leading architecture initiatives across IT and business organizations and teams.
• Prior experience transitioning from traditional on-premises solutions to AWS.

The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.

Salary range: $119,402.29 – $220,517.17

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity.  Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

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