Location & Work Arrangement
This position follows a hybrid work schedule. Candidates must be able and willing to work onsite four days per week from one of the following Citizens hub locations:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Johnston, RI
- Westwood, MA
- Boston, MA
- Iselin, NJ
Remote work is not available for this position.
Citizens is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Systems to provide technical leadership and architectural direction for enterprise accounting and financial systems. This role will lead solution design and delivery across Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and related financial platforms supporting critical accounting functions, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Project Accounting, forecasting, and regulatory reporting.
As a member of the Accounting Technologies team, you will work closely with Accounting, Finance, Technology, and Enterprise Architecture partners to define scalable solutions, establish architectural standards, and guide delivery across a cross-functional Agile pod. You will help shape technology strategy, drive modernization initiatives, and ensure solutions meet operational, regulatory, and business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical direction for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and related accounting platforms.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, and Technology stakeholders to define and deliver strategic technology solutions.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures and implementation plans.
- Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional pod consisting of developers, analysts, and testers.
- Drive backlog prioritization, solution planning, and delivery execution aligned to business value, risk, and dependencies.
- Establish architecture standards, best practices, and governance processes.
- Support modernization initiatives and integration strategies across enterprise financial systems.
- Evaluate platform capabilities and recommend opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with organizational standards, guidelines, and technology strategies.
- Present technical recommendations, roadmaps, and delivery updates to business and technology leaders.
- Partner with vendors and third-party providers to ensure solutions support business objectives and enterprise standards.
- Analyze technology trends and provide recommendations that support long-term business and architectural goals.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Technical Architecture, or Technical Leadership roles.
- Deep experience supporting enterprise accounting or financial systems.
- Strong Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) experience, including one or more of the following modules:
- General Ledger (GL)
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Fixed Assets (FA)
- Project Accounting (PA)
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale financial technology solutions.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong understanding of systems integration, application architecture, and data management.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving technology initiatives.
- Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and executive leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience with Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion DRM, Oracle Essbase, or related financial planning solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Ansible.
- Familiarity with modern development frameworks such as Angular and Spring Boot.
- Experience operating within Agile delivery environments.
- Experience managing product backlogs, sprint planning, and prioritization activities.
What Success Looks Like
- Serve as the technology leader for critical accounting platforms supporting enterprise financial operations.
- Drive architectural decisions that improve scalability, stability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead complex initiatives from concept through delivery.
- Build strong partnerships across Accounting, Finance, Technology, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Influence the long-term strategy and modernization roadmap for enterprise accounting platforms.
Why Join Citizens
- Lead architecture for mission-critical accounting and financial platforms.
- Influence enterprise technology strategy and modernization initiatives.
- Partner directly with Accounting, Finance, and Technology leadership.
- Drive innovation across Oracle EBS and related financial systems.
- Play a key role in shaping the future state of accounting technology at Citizens.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Accounting Information Systems, Finance Technology, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
Preferred
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration (MBA), or a related discipline.
- Oracle certifications or other relevant architecture, cloud, or technology certifications.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
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4250 Congress St, Charlotte, NC, United States, 28209
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