Enterprise Architect - It Innovation & Architecture Office - Firstbank Pr

Enterprise Architect

At First Bank PR , we strive to be trusted advisors to our clients, and our employees are the ones that ensure we deliver on our promise of excellence in personalized customer service. Our more than 3,100 employees in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Florida share a passion for excellent customer service. We are proud of our team because they are continuously surpassing our client’s expectations.

Do you have a passion for helping customers, building relationships, and delivering extraordinary, personalized customer service? If your answer is yes, First Bank is the number one place for you.

The Enterprise Application Architect’s role is to plan, coordinate, architect, and supervise all activities related to the integration of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions as required to meet the business requirements of the organization. The Enterprise Application Architect is also responsible for developing and maintaining an application architecture blueprint for the organization. The Enterprise Application Architect will oversee testing of the interoperability of application modules under development by in-house software development teams, commercial off-the-shelf software deployed in the organization, and with external third parties as necessary.

Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of integration best practices are critical to successful performance in this role.

This role will report directly to the IT Architecture & Innovation Director. Additionally, this role will collaborate with Line of Business, other Enterprise Architecture (EA) team members, project teams, and staff in other business and IT functional areas in guidance and consultation in their decision-making process.

• Analyzes enterprise business context (trends and business strategy) to derive the Enterprise Application Architecture (EAA) future state. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide Application decisions for the enterprise.
• Consults on application development projects to harmonize systems EAA and identify when it is necessary to modify it to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
• Assesses near‑term needs, using structured interview processes, to establish business priorities. Consults with business and technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and develops alternative solutions. Advises on options, risks, cost‑benefits, impacts on other business processes and system priorities.
• Works with business‑facing projects and stay informed on their progress. Also, liaises and collaborates with functions associated with business process management (BPM) and service‑oriented architecture. This is to ensure enterprise‑wide consensus regarding business change requirements and the future‑state or current‑state design of business processes.
• Leads efforts to communicate with business and IT leaders to inform them on EAA activities and how they will benefit the business. Leads other communication efforts such as interviewing and educating key stakeholders, facilitating organizational change management, and working with business customers and constituencies.
• Collaborates with business and IT leaders to ensure that EAA requirements, principles, models, and recommendations are adhered to when migrating to the desired future state.
• Defines and articulates common agreement and understanding of what EAA is, its potential value (based on business goals and objectives), and the value of leveraging its outcomes within the scope of the overall Enterprise Architecture effort. Works with other architects to ensure that the EAA supports, reflects, advances, and integrates with the overall Enterprise Architecture.
• Collaborates with business and IT functional areas to understand how the business context applies to specific EAA iterations. Monitors business and technology trends that will impact the business and its extended ecosystem and analyzes its reactions to these trends at the strategy level. Identifies and monitoring critical constraints that may impact EAA progress, including resource, regulatory, market,…