Principal Architect

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.

Responsibilities:

•    Provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform. 
•    Work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results. 
•    Responsible for delivering roadmaps and strategic directions for business units. 
•    Contribute to, and review results of, RFPs and Options Analysis with a specific focus on strategic planning and architecture roadmaps. 
•    Present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to Technology and business senior management. 
•    Identify and prescribe product standards, deployment patterns and reference architectures. 
•    Contribute to the Solution Approach and Solution Design deliverables.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field and 7 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or related position preparing application solution design and high-level architecture.

Must have 7 years of experience with:

•    Preparing application solution design and high-level architecture using Architect tools, including Enterprise Sparx, and Microsoft Visio;
•    Developing cloud native applications to facilitate deployment of cloud infrastructure, including AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS SQL Server, Redis Cache;
•    Implementing security standards and protocols including OWASP, oAuth2.0 using, SAML, JSON Wen Token (JWT), Kerberos, Spring Security, and IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM); 
•    Utilizing messaging technologies, including JMS, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, and IBM MQ to build scalable and reliable messaging systems;
•    Utilizing Microservice development and design patterns, NoSQL Databases, AWS Cloud, and CICD pipeline to architect new generation platforms and systems;
•    Architecting cloud native applications using Domain Driven Design, Microservice design patterns, and 12 factor app methodologies;
•    Building Event Driven Systems with event sourcing using KAFKA, Data/Activity Streams, and Docker/Kubernetes;
•    Utilizing Spring Core, AOP, DAO, Boot, Batch, REST, Cloud Bus, Spring Boot Admin, and Spring Security to build robust and scalable enterprise applications;
•    Developing microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey, and employed technologies like MOXy, Jackson, Swagger, Layer7, APIGEE, Netflix Zuul, Hystrix, Resilient4j, and Apache Camel to enhance functionality and performance; and
•    Utilizing programming languages, including Java, J2EE, Swing, and Python.

100% telecommuting permitted from any US location.

Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer.

For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com and apply online (Job ID: 48323) or email resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line: 48323.

Direct applicants only. 
 

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