Senior Architect - Agentic AI

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:

• 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, define, facilitate alignment of key architectural decisions.
• Work with Data Architecture partners to help design the underlying knowledge architecture consisting of knowledge graphs and\or semantic layers for enabling AI Agents.
• Design and document solutions for AI 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.

• 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

Desired Qualifications

• 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

Education and Certifications

Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.

• Preferred: Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.

The salary range for this position is $ 127,000 - $ 170,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the work location, and relevant skills and experience.

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. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits .

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.