Principal Enterprise Architect -Resiliency & Platform Engineering; Remote

Position: Principal Enterprise Architect -Resiliency & Platform Engineering (Remote)
Overview

First Citizens Bank seeks an accomplished Principal Enterprise Architect to drive enterprise-wide architecture with deep specialization in non-functional requirements, particularly resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, and high availability. T he increasing sophistication, velocity, and scale of cyber threats require a dedicated leadership role focused on all critical platforms across the bank. platform resiliency across critical AI ecosystems such as Claude Mythos .

This l eader will ensure proactive identification, mitigation, and governance of threats and vulnerabilities, while strengthening operational continuity, regulatory compliance, and enterprise-wide risk posture. This role requires a seasoned practitioner with strong engineering roots who can balance strategic vision with pragmatic execution, ensuring critical banking platforms remain robust, performant, and available as we scale across a complex post-merger technology landscape.

Remote eligible.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities:

Enterprise Leadership, Influence & Execution

• Serve as the enterprise leader for resiliency and scalability outcomes, driving alignment across technology, operations, risk, and business stakeholders.
• Leverage deep organizational awareness to identify dependencies, remove barriers, and accelerate execution across complex initiatives.
• Influence strategic investment decisions by articulating technology risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and business impacts.
• Constructively challenge teams, leaders, and established approaches through data-driven analysis, problem solving, and collaborative engagement.
• Build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups while maintaining focus on long-term enterprise resiliency and scalability objectives.
• Partner with executives and delivery leaders to ensure architectural priorities translate into measurable business and technology outcomes.
• Establish governance mechanisms that drive accountability for resiliency, recovery, and availability commitments across the enterprise.

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Leadership

• Define enterprise architecture strategies aligned with business objectives, operational resilience requirements, and growth trajectories.
• Establish enterprise standards, patterns, and reference architectures that enable scalable and resilient technology delivery.
• Lead enterprise decision-making processes that balance innovation velocity, operational stability, regulatory expectations, and risk management.
• Drive multi-year technology roadmaps and influence execution priorities across application, infrastructure, and platform teams.

Resiliency & Disaster Recovery Leadership

• Lead the enterprise resiliency agenda by partnering with engineering, infrastructure, operations, security, and risk teams.
• Establish enterprise disaster recovery strategies, recovery objectives, testing programs, and remediation plans.
• Drive organizational readiness through resiliency exercises, scenario planning, and operational preparedness initiatives.
• Facilitate post-incident reviews that focus on systemic improvement, accountability, and actionable remediation.
• Influence technology investment decisions that improve enterprise resilience and reduce operational risk.

Scalability & High Availability Leadership

• Drive adoption of enterprise-wide scalability and availability patterns across critical business platforms.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to proactively identify growth constraints and operational risks.
• Lead capacity planning and availability strategies that support business growth and evolving customer demand.
• Ensure architecture and engineering decisions support established service-level objectives and business resiliency goals.

Architecture Advisory & Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural leadership for mission-critical initiatives and major transformation programs.
• Conduct architecture reviews focused on identifying risk, improving execution outcomes, and accelerating delivery.
• Coach technical leaders and engineering teams on resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and technology leaders…