Application Architect

Huntington National Bank • Columbus, OH

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Application Architect provides the technical vision and direction within an application domain. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating the application architecture and application-level roadmap. This role involves designing, documenting, developing, and governing frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization. The Application Architect is accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, ensuring its alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community. They will communicate and govern the use of architectural trends and best practices within the application domain, and conduct product/solution evaluations for the architectural domain. This role may also mentor technical delivery staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of related experience

Nice To Haves

• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Experience working in a consumer-centric company and with teams of technical professionals in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes
• Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity
• Hands on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution
• Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with in-depth understanding of the business requirements
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration
• Experience in consumer/retail and commercial/business banking – branch and digital (online/direct) banking
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud
• Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, its alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community.
• Communicate and govern use of architectural trends and best practice within the application domain.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB’s federated architect program.
• Conduct product/solution evaluations for architectural domain.
• May mentor technical delivery staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior