Head of Architecture Strategy, TPPA Transformation and Business Architecture

Truist Bank • Raleigh, NC

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About The Position

Drive the strategic transformation and enterprise-wide adoption of Truist’s Architecture Strategy anchored on the Truist Product & Platform Architecture (TPPA). Develop, evangelize and institutionalize TPPA as the unifying construct for Truist’s enterprise model and blueprint for aligning business products, services, and processes directly with technology capabilities. Define and manage the enterprise taxonomy and business architecture components underpinning TPPA to drive consistency and provide aligned insights to guide enterprise-wide strategic, operational, technical, and risk focused decisions and execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Business, or equivalent education and related training.
• Proven experience mapping business products and processes to technology capabilities at scale.
• Familiarity with BIAN, ISO 20022, and agile delivery frameworks (e.g. SAFe).
• Strong financial acumen for investment planning and cost optimization.
• Twenty years of architecture, design, delivery, or service planning and management experience, with a minimum of ten years in the banking/financial services domain.
• Comprehensive experience with various architectural domains such as application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration.
• Demonstrated experience leading development of strategic business or technology direction and architecture vision for a large organization.
• Experience in developing target states and roadmaps that align to short and long-term business goals.
• Ten years of previous management experience.
• Skilled in providing mentorship to senior architecture leaders.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models.
• Demonstrated ability to drive decisions.
• Strong analytical and broad architectural skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiation/facilitation skills (both internally and with external vendors).
• Significant knowledge of current and emerging architecture principles, methodologies, and tools.
• Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with ability to differentiate feasible from academic solutions.
• Demonstrated thought-leadership skills with the ability to translate high-level business planning information into application needs/solutions.
• Demonstrated proficiency in basic computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products.
• Ability to travel, occasionally overnight.

Responsibilities

• Codify and govern the TPPA layered architecture model (Business Consumables, Enabling Platforms, Enterprise Platforms, Enabling Functions).
• Create and maintain the TPPA registry and business architecture taxonomy and meta model linking products, platforms, processes, and costs.
• Establish TPPA as the “Rosetta Stone” linking Truist’s business products and their required external/internal services to the Truist process inventory and capability models.
• Align business consumable products (e.g., Commercial Real Estate) maps to enabling platforms (e.g., Origination, Servicing) and enterprise platforms (e.g., Cloud, Data, Integration).
• Drive end-to-end traceability across the business, operations, and technology stack such as from client journeys to APIs, data contracts, and infrastructure patterns.
• Inform Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) and activity-based costing for architecture and platform investments in support of total-cost-of-ownership optimization and platform rationalization.
• Incorporate TPPA into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from agile product cadences through architecture guardrails and compliance automation.
• Serve as TPPA Business Product Owner to drive instantiation of TPPA into ServiceNow and the implementation of standardized lineage and evidence collection via Common Services Data Model (CSDM).
• Serve as talent manager for the Architecture Strategy team with responsibility for building and maintaining the team from the ground up through hiring (internal/external) and ongoing teammate management and growth development.

Benefits

• All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.
• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

What This Job Offers

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