Senior Architect - Agentic AI

Citizens Bank • Johnston, RI

9h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Architect, with a focus on our “Reimagine The Bank” initiative you
will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be
central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the
organization, including multiple Generative and Agentic AI use cases. The senior
architect is capable of working across multiple technology domains to developing
a multitude of solution design artifacts, and presenting that design within
several governance channels. The Senior Architect provides deep technical
knowledge and architectural design mentorship at a platform and portfolio level
and will be a key contributing architect on large/complex projects with a
variety of components. The Senior Architect is capable of presenting designs and
ideas to an Architecture Review Board.

The Senior Architect will be responsible for:

Requirements

• 8+ years of cloud native application development or solutions architecture experience
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
• Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
• Experience using system and process analysis
• Strong communication skills; ability to facilitate technical conversations with non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
• Experience with enterprise data platforms like Snowflake and Redshift.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms integration patterns (e.g. – Migration, Broadcast, Aggregation…etc..)
• Experience building\designing highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
• Experience building\designing cloud-native applications
• Experience with API’s, and Event Driven Architecture patterns
• Experience in 1 or more of the following technology areas. Infrastruture, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing(AWS, Azure, GCP)
• A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years’ experience in the financial services industry
• Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
• UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques

Responsibilities

• Working with senior level engineers, architects, platform owners, and business partners\experience owners to set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives.
• Constantly advancing knowledge and awareness of emerging AI technologies and platforms for scalability, security, and compliance.
• Aligning efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives.
• Designing robust, scalable, and secure data integration and AI platform architecture.
• Ensure integration with existing enterprise systems, data pipelines, and cloud SaaS solutions.
• Producing architecture documentation and design deliverables, including conceptual blueprints, proof-of-concepts, options analysis, standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Identify, defined,facilitatealignment ofkey architectural decisions.
• Work with Data Architecture partners to help design the underlying knowledge architecture consisting ofknowledgegraphs and\or semantic layers for enabling AI Agents.
• Design and document solutions forAI security, governance, observability.
• Focusing on driving architecture towards long-term Business Unit/Enterprise goals and objectives. Partnering with business leadership to influence priorities and objectives.
• Capturing best-practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams. Networking with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs and enterprise-wide research projects.

Benefits

• We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.
• Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of very local and state jurisdiction in the United States.

What This Job Offers

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