Enterprise Architect

Base Salary Range

USD $ - USD $ /Yr.

Since 1927, the Mariner Finance family of companies has provided customers with creative, flexible, and convenient lending options. Headquartered in Baltimore, Mariner Finance operates coast-to-coast with physical locations in over half the states. With a growing number of employees, superior customer service remains the cornerstone of our business, and we pride ourselves in delivering a variety of loans with an enhanced focus on exceptional service.

We work with customers to find options that are beneficial to their specific needs, which is why we are recognized by our customers as one of the community’s consumer finance companies of choice.

Benefits:
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In this role, you will...

Drive the development, maintenance, and ongoing refinement of the company’s enterprise architecture strategy, standards, principles, and technology roadmaps across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, integration, and security. Partner with business, technology, security, risk, and operations leaders to align architecture recommendations with business objectives, transformation initiatives, regulatory expectations, and long-term business needs.

Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, providing architecture guidance, evaluating technology trends and platform capabilities, and shaping secure, scalable, cost-effective, and future‑ready solutions. Work through influence, matrixed collaboration, and architecture governance to promote alignment, consistency, and informed decision-making across teams.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, principles, patterns, and roadmaps across applications, data, infrastructure, integration, cloud, and security.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align architecture recommendations with business objectives, transformation initiatives, regulatory expectations, and current and future business needs.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and vendors, including Salesforce, CCaaS platforms, cloud services, integration tools, and other enterprise systems, to support business needs and enterprise architecture strategy.
• Analyze enterprise business drivers, technology trends, and market changes to assess potential impact and recommend appropriate architecture direction.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise architecture, advising leaders and stakeholders on technology capabilities, solution design, modernization, interoperability, and platform strategy.
• Support and facilitate architecture governance, review, and decision‑making forums to promote scalable, secure, resilient, and consistent technology solutions.
• Guide architecture‑related initiatives through influence, partnership, and matrixed collaboration across business, technology, security, data, infrastructure, operations, vendor, and third‑party teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop and promote architecture processes, standards, communication plans, and adoption strategies.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, modernization, rationalization, reuse, interoperability, and cost optimization across enterprise platforms.
• Support system interoperability and integration strategies across enterprise platforms, including cloud, hybrid, and third‑party environments.
• Partner with business leaders to support digital transformation initiatives across customer, servicing, and lending journeys.
• Support secure‑by‑design architecture practices, including security standards, identity frameworks, API security, data protection, Zero Trust, and secure cloud and hybrid integration patterns.
• Collaborate with security, risk, compliance, infrastructure, application, and data teams to incorporate threat modeling, risk mitigation, and regulatory requirements into architecture recommendations.
• Monitor and report on architecture‑related metrics, governance outcomes, technology risks, roadmap progress,…