Enterprise Architect - SDLC

Zions Bancorporation • Midvale, UT

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is seeking an Enterprise Architect (SDLC) to join the organization. This role is instrumental in designing how the company works in systems and collaboratively to deliver and manage technology, as well as ensuring the visibility of these system and process architectures. The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for defining and aligning system, software, development, and delivery lifecycle processes with the technology organization's business strategy and objectives. This involves defining and managing architectural patterns for practices, processes, systems, tool recommendations, and data integrations to ensure an effective and efficient delivery lifecycle. The role also includes guiding IT teams in adopting these patterns and practices, gathering feedback, meeting functional and non-functional requirements, and partnering with the technology risk team on defining and designing metrics for these lifecycles.

Requirements

• Proven experience in enterprise delivery process architecture, with a focus on SDLC.
• Familiarity with TOGAF and other industry frameworks.
• Strong understanding and experience with/in key IT operational domains (Engineering, Ops, ITSM, PMO, QA, Dev, Security, Risk, Change, Architecture).
• Strong understanding of software and system development or change methodologies, processes, and tools.
• Strong understanding of enterprise operational system lifecycles, processes, and tools.
• Excellent communication, influence, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to document and present architecture content effectively.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and 8+ years of directly related experience.
• A combination of education and experience may meet qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document architecture content for specific stakeholder audiences to enable business or organizational outcomes.
• Address the needs and concerns of business and organizational stakeholders, producing corresponding functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure the solution architecture work products capture architecture concerns and decisions and are presented to project and architecture review boards.
• Work with partners across organizational boundaries, processes, and systems to design and implement integrated, traceable, measureable, efficient workflow and systems.
• Gather and analyze system requirements, including understanding the system’s purpose, functionality, performance expectations, constraints, and user needs.
• Define the high-level structure and organization of the system, identifying major components, their responsibilities, and interactions.
• Decompose the system into smaller subsystems or modules, specifying interfaces and functionality.
• Design individual components or modules, specifying internal structure, algorithms, and data structures.
• Design data structures and databases, defining data schema, relationships, and access mechanisms.
• Ensure solution architecture alignment to the enterprise architecture blueprint.
• Review and approve EA artifacts such as reference architecture, patterns, standards, and solution architectures.
• Participate in Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release Trains, utilizing the Solution Architect role.
• Partner with the EA team to ensure architecture standards, guidelines, and procedures are followed.
• Provide architecture support on individual technology solutions and significant design changes to in-flight projects and initiatives.
• Promote awareness of cross-functional activities, best practices, new standards, emerging technologies, defined processes, and decisions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA), and dependent care accounts
• Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
• Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
• Employee Ambassador preferred banking products

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees