IT Platform Architect Senior Principal

Summary

Join Pathward, a hybrid, remote-office financial empowerment company dedicated to creating financial inclusion. This role owns architectural responsibilities for modern infrastructure platforms, methodologies, and processes. You will drive architectural effectiveness, maintain current state architecture while envisioning future state, and develop technology roadmaps. Responsibilities include architecting solutions, designing for infrastructure optimization, evaluating technology trends, and promoting architecture processes. You will provide technical leadership, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and align business and technology strategies. Pathward offers a competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent education and work experience
• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s or equivalent
• Proficient with major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• 12+ years of varied experience implementing all aspects of solution architecture. Exposure to application development, integration, information management, infrastructure, and information security domains
• 10+ years of complex enterprise experience leading architecture efforts. Subject matter expertise across varying technology and business disciplines
• 10+ years of architecture scalable, secure, highly available, and fault tolerant technical solutions
• 6+ years of major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• 6+ years of understanding of cloud security principles and practices, including secure software development, threat modeling, and incident response
• 5+ years of banking or financial services and products domain experience. Comparable domain experience will also be considered
• Proven success in planning, influencing, and leading architecture initiatives across IT and business organizations and teams
• Prior experience transitioning from traditional on-premises solutions to AWS

Responsibilities

• Own architectural responsibilities in defining and supporting the implementation of modern Infrastructure platforms, methodologies, programs, processes, standards, organization structure, metrics and approaches in support and growth of our business
• Drive the architectural effectiveness of business capability-related initiatives within the organization
• Own maintenance of the current state architecture while envisioning future state architecture aligned with product objectives. Develop technology roadmaps to smoothly transition from the current state to the desired future state
• Architect solutions that address specific business capabilities and non-functional requirements
• Design solutions to advance and optimize the enterprise infrastructure
• Evaluate technology, market trends and industry plus identifies prospective impact on business
• Promote architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise information technology
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural best practices and standards
• Collaborate closely with senior business and technology leaders, including product management, business, engineering, and operations
• Align business and technology strategy, ensuring seamless communication across multiple levels within the organization
• Develop architecture roadmap on basis of IT strategies and business requirements
• Define and establish technical strategies, standards, and guidelines in collaboration with other architects
• Create logical architecture diagrams to support large, complex, and cross-capability area initiatives
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off
• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity