Enterprise Architect

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Candescent is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions. We are transforming digital banking with intelligent, cloud-powered solutions that connect account opening, digital banking, and branch experiences for financial institutions. Our advanced technology and developer tools enable seamless, differentiated customer journeys that elevate trust, service, and innovation. Success here requires flexibility in a fast-paced environment, a client-first mindset, and a commitment to delivering consistent, reliable results as part of a performance-driven, values-led team.  

With team members around the world, Candescent is an equal opportunity employer.

Candescent is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions. We are transforming digital banking with intelligent, cloud-powered solutions that connect account opening, digital banking, and branch experiences for financial institutions. Our advanced technology and developer tools enable seamless, differentiated customer journeys that elevate trust, service, and innovation.

Success here requires flexibility in a fast-paced environment, a client-first mindset, and a commitment to delivering consistent, reliable results as part of a performance-driven, values-led team. With team members around the world, Candescent is an equal opportunity employer.

We are seeking an Architect to lead the evolution of our SaaS platform into a modern, resilient, and AI-powered architecture. This role will shape our long-term technology strategy, provide technical leadership across engineering teams, and ensure our platform is scalable, secure, performant, and data driven.
A key priority will be driving platform transformation by consolidating multiple banking products into a unified, extensible platform with a shared architecture—enabling cross-product consistency, operational efficiency, and faster innovation. This role will also be instrumental in designing scalable APIs, improving developer experience, and enabling seamless integration with fintech partners, core banking systems, and third-party providers.##

Key Responsibilities:

* Product architecture strategy and vision
* Prioritized technology roadmap
* Solution blueprints and integration plans
* Architecture dependency maps, within and external to product
* Security, compliance, and scalability frameworks
* Define and drive end-to-end platform architecture strategy with a focus on scalability, modularity, security, and resilience
* Lead the platform consolidation and modernization journey, transitioning current solutions to a unified architecture
* Champion architecture excellence using domain-driven design, event-driven systems, and well-architected cloud principles
* Design and govern robust, secure, and extensible API ecosystems that support internal teams, external developers, and fintech partners
* Define and elevate developer experience standards including sandbox environments, API documentation, and onboarding flows
* Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to embed AI/ML, analytics, and personalization into platform capabilities
* Define and enforce standards for API governance, observability, system design, and security
* Evaluate emerging technologies for future-readiness
* Collaborate with Info Sec, SRE, and Dev Ops to ensure platform reliability, compliance, and operational health###
** Product Design and Development*** ### Designs and maintains artifacts for product architectures including solution blueprints, dependency maps, design specifications, etc. to meet business objectives and technical requirements
* Collaborates with Portfolio leadership and Product Manager to understand business requirements and align technology solutions to strategic business outcomes
* Establishes and enforces technical standards, policies, and guidelines to maintain consistency and reliability across the product and teams
* Works closely with product teams,…