Senior Solutions Architect

Overview

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.

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect that will focus on business applications and market leading core banking and deposit systems. As a core member of the Enterprise Architecture team, your expertise and collaboration skills will help drive development of quality solutions and ensure alignment to strategic technology directions.

The Enterprise Architecture organization is at the heart of innovation at Zions Bancorporation. We are constantly working to modernize our application portfolios, engineering practices, and IT operations and delivery capabilities. Ensuring scalable, quality, and innovative solutions for our teams and our customers is integral to what we do. Come join us in transforming our banking solutions!

• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Develop and nurture strong, trusted relationships with key business and technology stakeholders
  • Work closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle
  • Support product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information
  • Represent IT at project inception and assist in creation of business cases and the preparation of project funding proposals - including TCO
  • Offer technical guidance on initiatives, helping select and guide the implementation of appropriate technologies
  • Take part in strategic planning sessions for both business and technology, and help create roadmaps for business and technical capabilities
• Architecture and Governance:
  • Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural solution to achieve business objectives with consideration of business drivers and capabilities
  • Promote straightforward, standardized, scalable, and automated solutions guided by Zions’ philosophy and architectural principles
  • Define principles, architecture patterns and standards to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
  • Create architectural solutions to guide and contextualize solution designs/development across products, services, projects and systems
  • Develop future state roadmaps for products and technologies that align to and enable business objectives
  • Assist Business Analysts and System Owners in defining technology and non-functional requirements for solutions
• Leadership and EA Practice:
  • Keep up to date on emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices
  • Mentor others in Architecture thinking
  • Champion and enable innovation and AI

• Possess strong hands-on expertise across multiple technical fields or has advanced from traditional development roles into architecture or leadership
• Solid experience with multiple modern languages, patterns and technologies such as python, java, integration fabric, cloud computing, IaC, CI/CD, automated testing, virtualization/containers, API management, messaging/streaming, Gen/Agentic AI, etc.
• Strong problem resolution, analysis and trouble shooting skills related to information architecture concepts that enable well architected and integrated transactional, analytical, and collaborative systems
• Leverage systems-thinking to ensure breadth and depth of architectures
• Strong organizational, project management, and time management skills
• Excellence in written, verbal and presentation skills when working with business leaders, project management, and technical experts at all levels
• Listen actively, resolve conflicts, negotiate, and lead business leaders and project teams toward optimal outcomes through collaboration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Technology Management, or a related field, plus more than five years…