Enterprise Architect - Application Architecture

Zions Bancorporation's Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today.

• Develop and document application architecture for targeted stakeholder groups to support business and organizational outcomes.
• Translate stakeholder needs into functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Ensure architectural designs are clearly documented and reviewed through project and architecture governance process.
• Create and maintain application architecture patterns, guidelines, and approved technology records.

• Gather and analyze application requirements, including purpose, functionality, performance, constraints, and user needs.
• Define application architectures that meet these requirements and collaborate with other architects to align on solution approaches (COTS, SaaS, PaaS, custom).
• Establish high-level application structures, major components, technologies, models, their responsibilities, and interaction models.

• Ensure solution architectures align with the enterprise architecture blueprint.
• Review and approve enterprise architecture artifacts, such as reference architectures, patterns, standards, and solution designs.
• Partner with enterprise, data, and infrastructure architects to ensure cohesive endtoend architecture.
• Participate in evaluating tools, platforms, frameworks, and third party solutions.
• Contribute to Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release Trains in the Solution Architect role.

• Work with the EA team to uphold architecture standards, guidelines, and processes.
• Provide architectural oversight for new or major-change technology proposals.
• Promote awareness of cross-functional architecture activities, patterns, best practices, emerging technologies, and standards.
• Develop and champion roadmaps and multiyear strategies for application modernization and patterns adoption.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure solution alignment with business goals.

• Experience in enterprise architecture with a focus on application architecture.
• Expertise in defining application blueprints, modular designs, and integration patterns.
• Hands‑on coding experience in mainstream languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript/Type Script, Python, React, Node.js, Angular, Swift).
• Ability to design endtoend solutions that align with enterprise standards and meet requirements for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience with major cloud services and architecture frameworks.
• Broad knowledge of application technologies, including their strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases.
• Experience leading major application refactoring or re‑platforming efforts (e.g., monolith to microservices, server to containers, onprem to cloud, VMs to serverless).
• Understanding of distributed systems, containerization, service mesh, and domain decomposition.
• Experience with security‑by‑design principles (authentication, authorization, OWASP, threat modeling, logging, monitoring, data protection).
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data flows, metadata management, and data governance.
• Breadth of experience across enterprise technology stacks (cloud, distributed, mobile, SaaS, desktop native, integrations, data feeds and messaging pipelines, legacy‑to‑modern mixes).
• Experience with CI/CD, Git Ops, automated testing, and IaC (e.g., Terraform).
• Ability to make unbiased technology recommendations based on context, not personal preferences.
• Familiarity with TOGAF and similar industry frameworks.
• Understanding of software development methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present architecture content to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of…