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# Enterprise Architect - SDLC

- **Company:** Zions Bank
- **Location:** Midvale, UT, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Databases, Data Structures, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Requirements Analysis, Togaf, Information Technology, Operational Systems
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usf307bf15594bfb7c7a9ee59eb16fbe95/eaa

## About the Role

* Proven experience in enterprise delivery process architecture, with a focus on SDLC.
 * Familiarity with TOGAF and other industry frameworks.
 * Strong understanding and experience with/in key IT operational domains (Engineering, Ops, ITSM, PMO, QA, Dev, Security, Risk, Change, Architecture)
 * Strong understanding of software and system development or change methodologies, processes, and tools.
 * Strong understanding of enterprise operational system lifecycles, processes, and tools.
 * Excellent communication, influence, and collaboration skills.
 * Ability to document and present architecture content effectively.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and 8+ years of directly related experience. A combination of education and experience may meet qualifications.

## Description

* Define and Govern Solution Architecture:

 * Develop and document architecture content for specific stakeholder audiences to enable business or organizational outcomes.

Address the needs and concerns of business and organizational stakeholders, producing corresponding functional and non-functional requirements. * Ensure the solution architecture work products capture architecture concerns and decisions and are presented to project and architecture review boards.

 * Work with partners across organizational boundaries, processes, and systems to design and implement integrated, traceable, measureable, efficient workflow and systems.
 * System Design Activities:

 * Gather and analyze system requirements, including understanding the system's purpose, functionality, performance expectations, constraints, and user needs.
 * Define the high-level structure and organization of the system, identifying major components, their responsibilities, and interactions.
 * Decompose the system into smaller subsystems or modules, specifying interfaces and functionality.
 * Design individual components or modules, specifying internal structure, algorithms, and data structures.
 * Design data structures and databases, defining data schema, relationships, and access mechanisms.
 * Architecture Governance:

 * Ensure solution architecture alignment to the enterprise architecture blueprint.
 * Review and approve EA artifacts such as reference architecture, patterns, standards, and solution architectures.
 * Participate in Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release Trains, utilizing the Solution Architect role.
 * Collaboration and Communication:

 * Partner with the EA team to ensure architecture standards, guidelines, and procedures are followed.
 * Provide architecture support on individual technology solutions and significant design changes to in-flight projects and initiatives.
 * Promote awareness of cross-functional activities, best practices, new standards, emerging technologies, defined processes, and decisions.


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