Enterprise Automation Architect

Location:

Iselin, NJ; MA;
Pittsburgh, PA;
Nashville, TN;
Dallas, TX;
Phoenix, AZ and other locations.

At Citizens, we invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. This role is not relocation eligible.

As an Enterprise Workload Automation Architect, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition by shaping the architecture, strategy, and delivery of enterprise scheduling and orchestration services, including Autosys, CA7, Airflow, and related workload automation platforms. Your role will be central to ensuring the reliable and secure operation of business‑critical batch, event‑driven, and cloud‑integrated workloads across the organization. You will provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, with deep expertise in workload automation technologies, enterprise scheduling patterns, and industry trends.

You will work cross‑functionally with both technical and nontechnical teams and present designs to an Architecture Review Board and senior management.

• Work with senior level engineers, architects, and platform owner to set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives.
• Align efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and enterprise objectives.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.
• Drive key architecture decisions to solve critical complex problems for assigned and adjacent platforms.
• Work with the company platform owner and senior architects to guide technical platform architecture and engineering teams.
• Focus on driving architecture toward long‑term business unit/enterprise goals and objectives; partner with business leadership to influence priorities.
• Capture best practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams.
• Network with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs, and enterprise‑wide research projects.

• Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 8+ years of web‑development or solutions architecture experience.
  • Hands‑on experience with end‑to‑end software development of complex multi‑tiered systems.
  • Experience with multiple IT disciplines with confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts.
  • Experience using system and process analysis.
  • Strong communication skills; ability to facilitate technical conversations with non‑technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies; experience with RDBMS and No
    
    SQL is a must.
  • Experience building highly available customer‑facing applications in a GDHA setting.
  • Experience building cloud‑native applications.
  • Experience with APIs.
  • Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, automation, performance improvements, and transforming monolith architecture to modern microservices.
  • Experience implementing large‑scale technological enhancements or pivots, including pilot implementations and analysis.
  • Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas:
    Infrastructure, Security, Dev Ops, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in the financial services industry; understanding of consumer and custodial banks and handling sensitive financial data.
  • Strong business analysis, solutions crafting, interaction management, and presentation skills.
  • Experience in cybersecurity.
  • Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front‑end framework (Angular/React/Vue). Familiarity with Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++.
  • UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques.

• Hours per Week: 40
• Work Schedule:
  
  Monday – Friday

The salary range for this position is $152,000 – $199,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including location, skills, and experience.…