Enterprise Architect

At Regions, the Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, lifecycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability-oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards. Primary Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end from conception, through delivery, into production of enterprise architectures.
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects.
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome.
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus-based, scalable, and adaptable architectural solution.
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities.
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies.
• Validates designs produced by third-party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization.
• Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company's business goals and objectives.
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows.
• Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies.
• Builds and maintains technical trusted adviser relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology.
• Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines.
• Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives in the portfolio roadmap.
• Oversees data integration and configuration.
• Provides consultation on the most complex projects.
• Leads the work of others.

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, and at least 10 years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture experience.
• Experience with N-tier architectures and complex design architectures.
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies.
• Experience with Agile methods.

Certifications/Licences

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise.

Skills and Competencies

• Understanding of and ability to use design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategies.
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation BPMN, Unified Modeling Language UML).
• Hands-on depth in one or more popular programming languages such as Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of security design techniques.
• Understanding the technology of the organization, eg, Middleware, .NET, Java J2EE, Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.NET), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server).

The role of Enterprise Architect requires strong interpersonal skills and solid business acumen to effectively partner with stakeholders and influence direction across the organization. Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Engage effectively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, communication, and influence to drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
• Apply strong business acumen to ensure architectural decisions support organizational strategy, financial considerations, and expected business outcomes.

Additional Skills and Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships, influence without authority, and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated business acumen, including understanding of financial impacts, organizational strategy, and how architectural decisions support business objectives.

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

Job Range Target:

Minimum: $170,048.45 USD

Median: $209,120.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans: This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan. Employees are eligible to receive a discretionary award based on individual, business, and/or company performance. Benefits Information

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time.