Enterprise Architect for Finance & Corp Functions
About The Position
Provides enterprise architecture leadership for Corporate Functions, primarily Finance, with supporting coverage for Human Resources, Procurement, Enterprise Risk, Tax, Legal, Facilities, and other shared-service capabilities. Shapes technology strategies, target-state architectures, and roadmaps to improve financial management, workforce operations, sourcing, controls, regulatory reporting, data quality, and enterprise decision support. The role defines Corporate Functions architecture strategies and roadmaps aligned with business priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise standards, and the bank’s technology direction. It maintains target-state architectures for Finance capabilities and platforms, including ERP, EPM, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, consolidation, treasury, tax, FP&A, financial close and reporting, and related Oracle Financials products. It also provides supporting architecture leadership for HCM, source-to-pay, procurement, travel and expense, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Facilities, and other corporate shared services. The Enterprise Architect guides modernization of Oracle Financials and related corporate platforms, including SaaS adoption, upgrades, integration, data conversion, controls, and retirement of redundant capabilities. The role translates CFO and Corporate Functions priorities into capability, data, application, integration, and investment roadmaps; defines cross-platform patterns for data, identity, controls, retention, reporting, and authoritative sources; and aligns technology investment, consumption, and cost transparency with Finance and enterprise portfolio decisions. The role partners with business, technology, data, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance stakeholders to resolve cross-domain dependencies and sequencing decisions. It evaluates vendors and platforms for enterprise fit, functional coverage, integration, cost, resilience, third-party risk, and duplication, and provides architecture governance and implementation oversight through delivery and lifecycle checkpoints while remaining distinct from day-to-day solution delivery. The position requires on-site presence at the Seneca One Tech Hub in Buffalo, NY, for one week per month. The job description also lists the location as Clanton, Alabama, United States of America.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience, or, in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or relevant work experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in enterprise, domain, solution, application, or data architecture, including at least 5 years supporting Finance or Corporate Functions platforms.
- Experience architecting ERP, EPM, general ledger, treasury, financial reporting, procurement, Human Resources, or related enterprise platforms within a complex, regulated organization.
- Demonstrated experience developing capability models, target-state architectures, reference patterns, roadmaps, and transition plans.
- Experience with SaaS, enterprise integration, identity and access controls, data architecture, vendor evaluation, and platform modernization.
- Ability to influence senior Finance, business, technology, risk, and governance stakeholders and clearly communicate decisions, dependencies, and investment tradeoffs.
Nice To Haves
- Architecture experience with Oracle Financials, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management, Workday, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, or comparable enterprise platforms.
- Experience with financial close, planning, consolidation, treasury, tax, regulatory reporting, controls automation, or financial data modernization.
- Experience within a large financial institution with complex legacy, regulatory, data lineage, and operational resilience requirements.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture methods and tools, including capability models, value streams, roadmaps, and architecture repositories.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve Corporate Functions architecture strategies and roadmaps aligned with business priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise standards, and the bank’s technology direction.
- Maintain target-state architectures for Finance capabilities and platforms, including ERP, EPM, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, consolidation, treasury, tax, FP&A, financial close and reporting, and related Oracle Financials products.
- Provide supporting architecture leadership for HCM, source-to-pay, procurement, travel and expense, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Facilities, and other corporate shared services.
- Guide modernization of Oracle Financials and related corporate platforms, including SaaS adoption, upgrades, integration, data conversion, controls, and retirement of redundant capabilities.
- Translate CFO and Corporate Functions priorities into capability, data, application, integration, and investment roadmaps.
- Define cross-platform patterns for master and reference data, identity, segregation of duties, controls automation, records retention, regulatory reporting, and authoritative data sources.
- Align technology investment, consumption, and cost transparency with Finance and enterprise portfolio decisions, including appropriate financial operations practices.
- Partner with Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Enterprise Risk, Tax, Legal, Facilities, data, cybersecurity, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders to resolve cross-domain dependencies and sequencing decisions.
- Evaluate vendors and platforms for enterprise fit, functional coverage, integration, cost, resilience, third-party risk, and avoidance of unnecessary duplication.
- Provide architecture governance and implementation oversight through delivery and lifecycle checkpoints while maintaining the distinction between enterprise architecture and day-to-day solution delivery.
- Produce Corporate Functions capability maps, current-state and target-state architectures, and multiyear roadmaps.
- Develop Finance and corporate platform reference architectures, integration patterns, and standards.
- Prepare high-level designs and architecture decision records for major initiatives.
- Conduct technology assessments and vendor evaluations and provide platform recommendations.
- Prepare data, control, dependency, impact, and transition analyses.
- Deliver executive briefings communicating decisions, sequencing, investment implications, and risk.
- Maintain architecture governance evidence and lifecycle decisions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
