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# Senior Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** City of Covina
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Data Architecture, Amazon DynamoDB, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Enterprise Application Integration, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, State Machines, Event Driven Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, AI Platforms, Data Analytics, Data Management, Api Design, Api Gateway, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us321b32a6097e410514b5e5fe1df6f274/eaa

## About the Role

You must have 10+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems
Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures
Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)
You should possess the following skills:
Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience
Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
Strong programming background in Python and/or Node.js, with the ability to understand and guide implementation-level decisions
Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)
Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations
Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures
Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns
Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture
Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join Citco's Architecture team. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic automation as key enabling capabilities.
The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization..
Responsibilities:
About the Role:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy:
Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains
Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures
Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives
Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture
Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap
Technical Leadership:
Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives
Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions
Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities
Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions
Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity
Standards & Governance:
Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions
Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams
Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards
Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions
Promote observability, resiliency, and operational readiness by design
Solution Design & Review:
Review and approve AI solution designs
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards
Identify opportunities for reusable components
Guide teams on technical implementation approaches
Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms
Emerging Technology & Platform Evolution:
Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities
Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms
Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions.
Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
Guide integration with existing enterprise systems, AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)
Development using Python and/or Node.js
Large Language Models and GenAI technologies
RAG architectures and implementation patterns
Cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Enterprise integration patterns
Security and compliance frameworks
Data architecture and governance


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