Senior Enterprise Architect

Job-:
Information Systems & Technology

Location:

Charlotte, NC, United States Workplace:
Hybrid

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
About Citco Since the 1940s Citco has provided specialist financial services to alternative investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 14,000 employees in 45 countries we pioneer innovative solutions that meet our clients’ evolving needs, and deliver exceptional service. Our continuous investment in learning means our people are among the best in the industry. And our corporate social responsibility programs provide meaningful and fulfilling work in the community.

A career at Citco isn’t just a job – it’s an opportunity to excel in an environment that genuinely supports your personal and professional development.

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join Citco’s Architecture team. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic automation as key enabling capabilities.

The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

About You:

You must have 10+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture.

Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting enterprise solutions on AWS, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, scalability, security, and operational considerations.

Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems

Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures

Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures

Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)
Experience owning and delivering complex enterprise applications end-to-end, including architecture, development, deployment, support, and continuous improvement

Experience designing highly available, scalable, and disaster recovery-enabled solutions.

Ability to explain solution architecture and technical decisions end to end You should possess the following skills:

Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience

This is a hands-on architecture role. Candidates must have recent experience building and implementing enterprise applications and be comfortable reviewing code, solution designs, and technical implementations.

Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture

Strong software engineering background with hands-on development experience.

Experience with Python, Node.js, Java, C#, or similar languages is acceptable, provided candidates can demonstrate ownership of application design and implementation.

Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations

Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures

Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns

Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture

Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders Technical Expertise:

AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)
Strong understanding of production operations, observability, reliability, and operational support models

Kubernetes

Docker Container orchestration platforms Cloud-native deployment architectures

Development using Python and/or Node.js Large Language Models and GenAI technologiesRAG architectures and…