Head of Enterprise Architecture

Raymond James•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Head of Enterprise Architecture establishes and advances the Bank’s enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring technology investments, capabilities, and roadmaps align with business objectives and product strategies. The role guides domain architecture, influences major transformation initiatives, and drives architectural consistency, technical excellence, and scalable solutions across the enterprise. This leader directs the Enterprise Architecture team and builds strong partnerships across business, product, engineering, operations, risk, security, and technology organizations. The role establishes accountability for architecture decisions and outcomes and translates business priorities into actionable technology direction to enable innovation, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth in a highly regulated banking environment.

Requirements

7–10+ years of progressive technology and architecture experience, including substantive hands-on design responsibility.
2+ years leading architects or technical teams and developing technical talent.
Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise technology direction and enabling complex, multi-platform transformation.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Deep technical knowledge across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, integration, APIs, data architecture, infrastructure, security, and modern engineering practices.
Ability to translate business objectives, product strategies, and operating models into actionable architecture direction, roadmaps, and technology investment priorities.
Strong people leadership, coaching, and talent-development skills, with the ability to build accountability and elevate architecture practices.
Sound technical judgment to evaluate complex designs, challenge assumptions, assess tradeoffs, and guide practical decisions.
Understanding of enterprise modernization, platform rationalization, emerging technologies, and approaches that improve scalability, efficiency, and adaptability.
Knowledge of architecture frameworks, governance, security, operational resilience, and regulatory expectations in complex technology environments.
Exceptional executive communication, relationship-building, and influence across business, Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, and technology partners.
Ability to connect architecture direction and decisions to business outcomes, cross-domain dependencies, and effective execution of strategic priorities.

Nice To Haves

Banking or regulated financial services experience.

Responsibilities

Direct and develop the enterprise architecture organization, including domain and data architects and the EA Governance Lead, and establish clear accountability for architecture outcomes.
Guide documentation of current-state and target-state domain architectures and establish actionable technology roadmaps aligned with business strategies, product priorities, and delivery backlogs.
Shape technology direction for strategic transformation across Private Banking, Commercial Banking, Deposits and Treasury Management, digital client experiences, and enterprise data and integration capabilities.
Partner with business, Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, Security, and Raymond James technology leaders to align investment priorities, resolve cross-domain dependencies, and enable delivery of business value.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for significant architecture decisions by evaluating complex designs, challenging assumptions, guiding tradeoffs, and coaching architects and engineers.
Provide accountability for effective architecture governance while supporting the EA Governance Lead’s management of governance activities.
Oversee the disposition process for Requests for Comments (RFCs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), including engagement with the Technical Design Forum (TDF).
Identify and prioritize architectural risks, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and reusable capabilities to improve scalability, resilience, and long-term technology effectiveness.
Establish meaningful measures of architecture effectiveness, including roadmap alignment, decision timeliness, design quality, standards adoption, and contribution to predictable delivery.