Sr. Principal Architect

Huntington National Bank • Columbus, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly experienced Solution Architect with expertise in the banking industry, especially across the end-to-end payment ecosystem. The role calls for extensive knowledge of domestic and international payment rails, including ACH, wires, RTP, card networks, and cross-border solutions, alongside architecture leadership for complex, large-scale financial platforms. The architect translates business needs into scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions, drives modernization, guides engineering teams, and ensures alignment with regulatory and industry standards. A track record designing resilient, high-performance payment systems is essential.

The position develops, maintains, communicates, and governs application architecture, application-level roadmaps, architecture strategies, frameworks, platforms, standards, and best practices. It evaluates products and solutions, aligns architecture with Huntington’s Target State Enterprise Architecture, and mentors technical delivery staff. The role is classified as exempt. The listed workplace type is Office; the posting notes that some positions may be eligible for flexible arrangements, with specific arrangements determined by the hiring team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 7+ years of related experience as an architecture leader across financial platforms.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns, including layered architecture, event-driven architecture (EDA), domain-driven design (DDD), and hexagonal/onion architectures.
• Extensive experience designing and governing microservices-based architectures, including service decomposition, API gateways, service mesh patterns, scalability strategies, and resiliency patterns.
• Strong command of integration patterns, including messaging, publish/subscribe, orchestration versus choreography, and API-first design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, preferably on AWS or GCP, including serverless components, Kubernetes container platforms, and distributed systems.
• In-depth knowledge of global and domestic payment rails, including ACH, Fedwire, CHIPS, RTP, Zelle, SWIFT, card networks, ISO 8583, and ISO 20022.
• Experience architecting real-time, high-volume transaction systems, emphasizing low latency and high availability.
• Strong understanding of payment orchestration, settlement processes, clearing systems, fraud mitigation, tokenization, and core banking integration.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks, including KYC/AML, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, and other financial industry standards.
• Proficiency in API lifecycle management, including design, versioning, governance, and security.
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis, and queuing systems such as MQ or RabbitMQ.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, including operational data stores, data lakes, real-time data pipelines, and data lineage.
• Expertise in security architecture, including identity and access management (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), encryption, key management, and zero-trust principles.
• Experience implementing high availability, failover, disaster recovery, multi-region deployments, and chaos engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop, and govern frameworks and platforms for use by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Own the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, aligning it with Huntington’s Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community.
• Communicate and govern architectural trends and best practices within the delivery organization and Huntington Enterprise Architecture organization.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards for design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB’s federated architect program.
• Conduct product and solution evaluations for the architectural domain within the delivery organization and Huntington Enterprise Architecture organization.
• Mentor technical delivery staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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