As Principal Architect, you will provide strategic, architectural and technical direction to the Consumer Banking Technology DevSecOps and SRE practices.  The Principal Architect will work collaboratively with the Consumer Banking DevSecOps team, the enterprise DevSecOps team, Consumer Banking Tech teams along with numerous technical stakeholders to drive adoption of DevSecOps capabilities. The Principal Architect is a hands-on technical leader that is capable of presenting strategic designs and ideas to senior Technology or Business Management.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the enterprise DevSecOps and Cloud teams to envision and develop enterprise grade capabilities such as:




• CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, …)


• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)


• Platform Observability via integrated dashboards


• Logging and Monitoring




• Set technical direction for the Consumer Banking DevSecOps team while also collaborating with Consumer Banking technical teams to drive DevSecOps capability adoption. 


• Driving automation adoption to reduce code deploy friction and also to improve overall platform qualities of service.


• Leading code/design reviews with teams of software, network and cloud engineers to ensure that solutions meet enterprise standards; ensuring the cybersecurity of proposed solutions.  


• Performing long-term trend analysis regarding the implementation of new technological solutions; analyzing data gathered and produce reports.


• Reviewing performance and control reports; determining the appropriate course of action to improve performance when necessary. Extending business product innovation through the introduction, adoption and implementation of technology.


• Frequently collaborating with other functional teams' leadership and engineers to align and use solutions. Contributing to technology direction, develop architecture and influence implementation to gain measurable business improvements.


• Providing post-implementation support to project stakeholders, such as training and troubleshooting.  Applying analysis based on research and introspection to recommend solutions.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience with an strong emphasis on DevSecOps experiences.


• At least 3 years’ experience deploying public cloud based solutions (e.g., AWS, GCP)


• Hands-on end-to-end agile software development experience.


• Experience designing highly secure (GDHA), available and resilient platforms. 


• Experience with API’s, microservices and cloud-native 12 factor applications.  Able to transform traditional monolithic solutions to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.


• Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies.  RDBMS and NoSQL experience required.


• Highly collaborative technical leader with strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills.  Able to facilitate technical conversations with non-technical stakeholders


• Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts.


• Expert level in multiple programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Angular/React/Vue,  Python3, Ruby, Golang …)

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years of experience developing complex solutions in the financial services industry or for regulated industry use cases.


• Strong business analysis, solutions crafting, interaction management and presentation skills.


• Experience in cybersecurity, identify management (e.g., OAuth, SAML & OpenID Connect) and security orchestration (e.g., Transmit Security/ThreatMetrix)


• UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques


• Comfortable navigating large corporate structure to ensure timely delivery of projects

Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related foreign discipline required

Hours & Work Schedule

Hours per Week: 40

Work Schedule: M-F

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of Citizens Bank to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

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