Solution Architect

CO Salary Range

USD 91,000. per year

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success. As a(n) [position title] within PNC's [name of division] organization, you will be based in [city/state location of position].

Work hours will typically be 8am - 5pm EST.

This senior‑level position is responsible for Strategy, Architecture, and Innovation across business, application, platform, and data domains. It interacts with senior business and technology leaders, SMEs, and business architecture partners to bridge current state business needs with future state objectives, culminating in technology and data strategies and solution architectures that enable business outcomes and drive transformation.

In this role you will draw upon deep business, technology, and data architecture experience to partner with key stakeholders and ensure that strategic technology and data perspectives, architectures, artifacts, and roadmaps are well crafted, clearly communicated, and achieve stakeholder consensus. You will be required to understand complex business processes, system interactions, and data flows to develop modern, scalable architectures that support large‑scale transformation initiatives.

• Develop solution and data architecture and resolve complex issues across a variety of initiatives through requirements analysis, architectural leadership, and project supervision.
• Design solution architecture for large or complex programs, including system, application, and data designs, in alignment with enterprise strategies, standards, and target state roadmaps.
• Define and govern data architecture patterns, including logical and physical data models, canonical data structures, data domains, and master/reference data strategies.
• Provide architectural leadership for data platforms and ecosystems, including data warehousing, data lakes/lake houses, analytical platforms, streaming architectures, and cloud‑based data services.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), data integration, data quality, metadata management, lineage, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with business, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure data architectures support reporting, analytics, AI/ML, regulatory, and operational use cases.
• Provide consulting and guidance to IT and data engineering teams on data design, integration patterns, storage technologies, and architectural trade‑offs.
• Develop solutions that account for non‑functional requirements (e.g., scalability, performance, resiliency, security, privacy, regulatory compliance) and apply appropriate architectural tactics to meet them.
• Communicate with clients and stakeholders to analyze business requirements, data needs, and processes; produce architecture recommendations that align business, technology, and data strategies.
• Oversee architecture outcomes across initiatives, ensuring solution and data architectures meet functional, non‑functional, and governance requirements at each phase.
• Collaborate with enterprise data governance and risk partners to ensure architectures align with data governance, security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
• Explore new and emerging technologies and data capabilities (e.g., cloud‑native data services, AI/ML platforms, streaming, metadata and governance tooling), developing strategic viewpoints on how they enable business outcomes or introduce disruption.
• Practice strong decision‑making and critical thinking by fully analyzing complex business, technology, and data related issues and driving productive, well‑reasoned outcomes.
• Practice enterprise systems thinking, with a broad understanding of application, infrastructure, integration, and data architectures and how they collectively enable business capabilities.

• Designs solution roadmaps according to business strategies and…