Description
4 Days in the office from any of our locations in Johnston RI, Iselin NJ, Westwood, or Phoenix AZ
Role is not relocation eligible.
Responsibilities
As Principal Architect, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the organization. The Principal Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform. The Principal Architect will work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including: business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results. The Principal Architect is capable of presenting designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to Technology and business senior management.
The Principal Architect will be responsible for:
· Participating in code and design reviews with teams of software, network and cloud engineers to ensure that solutions meet current enterprise standards; ensuring the cybersecurity of proposed solutions. Applying specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives.
· Designing and handling solutions that provide frameworks, interfaces, and services that can be extended and reused across the portfolio, ensuring that architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture standards, guidelines and principles.
· 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.
· 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.
Required Qualifications
· 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
· Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
· Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
· Experience using system and process analysis
· Strong communication skills; ability to facilitate technical conversations with non-technical stakeholders
· Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies. Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL is a must for Principal and up.
· Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
· Experience building cloud-native applications
· Experience with API's
· Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
· 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
· Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
· Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
· Experience using system and process analysis
· Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements or pivots, including pilot implementations and analysis
· Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
· Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
· Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
· Experience building cloud-native applications
· Experience with API's
· Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
· Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing(AWS, Azure, GCP)
· A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field
Desired Qualifications
· Experience in the financial services industry; understanding of the role of consumer and custodial banks; experience handling sensitive financial data
· Strong business analysis, solutions crafting, interaction management and presentation skills.
· Experience in Trade Finance , Supply Chain domain . Nice to have the knowledge of Finastra's Supply chain product
· Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
· UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $151,000 - $198,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience.
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens' paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits
Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. If you apply and qualify for this role, a recruiter will discuss accurate pay guidance.
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.
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
Background Check
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.
06/30/2026
