Divisional Chief Architect - Consumer and Small Business Banking

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English (Required)

1st shift (United States of America)

• Leads enterprise architecture (EA) teams dedicated to delivering architecture management and governance capabilities aligned to technology delivery divisions including:
• Responsibility for development, management, and updates to CSBB target state architectures to enable the divisions’ strategic plans and business objectives.
• Accountability for CSBB architecture governance and control function responsibilities including conduct of CSBB architecture reviews and approvals with an increasing focus on automation through architecture‑as‑code implementation.
• Strategic goal realization in CSBB through developing, instantiating, and maintaining Reference Architectures for utilization within CSBB and across Technology Delivery & Operations (TD&O).
• Leadership of CSBB aligned solution architecture capabilities enabling end‑to‑end product line architecture consistency and integration implementing standard architectures enabling scalability and reuse.

• Work with divisional technology leaders to evaluate the capabilities required for and implications of strategic planning (e.g., significant changes to architecture) on the divisions’ and Truist’s overall technology landscape.
• Lead and manage technology division centered architecture governance and control activities including architecture working groups and timely fulfillment of EA Service Requests and EA Design Approvals.
• Design target state architectures to accommodate technology changes in a way that maximizes value across function, cost, and risk while minimizing issues associated with changes.
• Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization while driving continuous improvement to minimize technical debt.
• Manage teams of enterprise architects and solution architects across multiple technology delivery portfolios including goal setting, regular feedback, and annual review processes.
• Develop enterprise architect talent through mentoring of existing architects, identification of emerging architects, and onboarding of strong experienced architects.
• Develop solution architect talent from onboarding through career evolution toward becoming enterprise architects or pivoting toward solution delivery leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or Business, or equivalent education and related training.
• Twenty‑five years of architecture/design/delivery experience which includes ten years of enterprise architecture experience or fifteen years' solution architecture experience in technology with a minimum of ten years in the banking/financial services domain.
• Comprehensive experience with various architectural domains such as application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration.
• Demonstrated experience leading development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for a large organization.
• Experience in developing technology target state and roadmaps that align to short‑ and long‑term business goals.
• Ten years of previous management experience.
• Skilled in providing mentorship to senior architecture leaders.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models.
• Demonstrated ability to drive decisions.
• Strong analytical and broad architectural skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiation/facilitation skills (both internally and with external vendors).
• Significant knowledge of current and emerging architecture…