Senior Solution Architect – Risk Technology

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Risk Management product owners, business leaders, and technology teams to analyze complex business and regulatory needs and translate them into implementable solutions.
• Create solution architectures that follow PNC’s Enterprise Architecture standards while staying practical and focused on delivery.
• Serve as a technical bridge between Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and operable.
• Contribute directly to solution delivery by producing and reviewing:
  • Logical and physical architecture diagrams
  • Application and integration blueprints
  • Sequence and context diagrams
  • Logical data models and reporting frameworks
  • Business capability maps and target-state process models.
• Take an active role in developing and engaging with practical proof-of-concept projects that incorporate innovative or recently introduced technologies, ensuring design choices are effectively validated.
• Drive modernization of the Risk Technology ecosystem, with particular focus on data platforms, analytics, and distributed systems.
• Provide practical guidance to engineering teams through design reviews, trade-off analysis, and implementation support.
• Maintain a delivery mindset by helping estimate outcomes, manage technical risk, and support roadmap development tied to measurable business value.

• Extensive hands‑on experience in full‑stack application development within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven track record designing and building distributed and service‑based systems that operate at scale.
• Strong command of application architecture principles, design patterns, and integration strategies.
• Practical experience with containerization and Dev Ops, including Docker and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, uDeploy, or Azure Dev Ops.
• Experience working with event streaming platforms (Kafka or equivalent), large scale Data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, business analysts, and engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a proactive, delivery‑oriented mindset.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills, particularly for technical audiences.
• Familiarity with SAFe, Agile, or Scrum practices and supporting tools such as Jira or Azure Dev Ops.