Principal Architect

Citizens•Johnston, RI

14h•Remote

About The Position

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location. This role involves providing architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform. The Principal Architect will work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams to drive tangible results, and will be responsible for delivering roadmaps and strategic directions for business units. The role also includes contributing to and reviewing RFPs and Options Analysis, presenting designs to an Architecture Review Board and senior management, identifying and prescribing product standards, deployment patterns, and reference architectures, and contributing to Solution Approach and Solution Design deliverables.

Requirements

Preparing application solution design and high-level architecture using Architect tools, including Enterprise Sparx, and Microsoft Visio
Developing cloud native applications to facilitate deployment of cloud infrastructure, including AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS SQL Server, Redis Cache
Implementing security standards and protocols including OWASP, oAuth2.0 using, SAML, JSON Wen Token (JWT), Kerberos, Spring Security, and IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)
Utilizing messaging technologies, including JMS, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, and IBM MQ to build scalable and reliable messaging systems
Utilizing Microservice development and design patterns, NoSQL Databases, AWS Cloud, and CICD pipeline to architect new generation platforms and systems
Architecting cloud native applications using Domain Driven Design, Microservice design patterns, and 12 factor app methodologies
Building Event Driven Systems with event sourcing using KAFKA, Data/Activity Streams, and Docker/Kubernetes
Utilizing Spring Core, AOP, DAO, Boot, Batch, REST, Cloud Bus, Spring Boot Admin, and Spring Security to build robust and scalable enterprise applications
Developing microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey, and employed technologies like MOXy, Jackson, Swagger, Layer7, APIGEE, Netflix Zuul, Hystrix, Resilient4j, and Apache Camel to enhance functionality and performance
Utilizing programming languages, including Java, J2EE, Swing, and Python

Responsibilities

Provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform.
Work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results.
Responsible for delivering roadmaps and strategic directions for business units.
Contribute to, and review results of, RFPs and Options Analysis with a specific focus on strategic planning and architecture roadmaps.
Present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to Technology and business senior management.
Identify and prescribe product standards, deployment patterns and reference architectures.
Contribute to the Solution Approach and Solution Design deliverables.