Enterprise Architect

Exciting Opportunity at Orange County's Federal Credit Union Enterprise Architect

CREDIT UNION’S PURPOSE
:
Simple Banking. For People, Not Profit.

CREDIT UNION’S CORE VALUES
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Integrity, Service Excellence, Growth & Development, High Performance, Mutual Respect, Community, and Fun.

Workplace Excellence. Through our associates' opinions and voices, Orange County's Federal Credit Union is a proud recipient of the Peter Barron Stark Best of the Best Award for highest associate satisfaction in the workplace! As a leading financial service provider with over 80 years of experience serving 123,000+ members, Orange County's Credit Union is currently $2+ billion in assets & growing.

• Anthem HMO/PPO, Delta Dental, Unum options - from day one
• Life insurance at no cost to employees.
• 401(k) – We match up to 6% of the employee’s contribution (dollar for dollar)
• Vacation hours – 13 days per year and rolls over year to year, and increases with tenure
• Sick hours – 7 days per year and paid holidays
• Annual performance merit increases
• Professional and personal development programs, including educational grants up to $1k per year, and step progression opportunities
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Professional, friendly work environment focused on achieving goals, recognizing successes, and excelling at member service.

Under minimal direction, the Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing cloud-native solutions, deconstructing our legacy architecture, and defining clear, executable roadmaps to modernize OCFCU’s technology platforms.

This role will work across core banking (Symitar/Episys), digital banking (e.g., Lumin), lending & payments, data & analytics, and integration platforms to move OCFCU from tightly coupled legacy systems to modern, scalable, secure, and observable architectures. This includes leveraging cloud services, APIs, event-driven patterns, and AI/LLM capabilities where they make sense, and ensuring everything is properly documented and ready for handoff to Operations.

This role will spend a significant portion of time embedded with teams reviewing designs, building reference implementations, prototyping, and helping teams ship better systems that can be operated reliably by OCFCU’s Infrastructure and Operations teams.

• Enterprise & Solution Architecture (Hands-On)
• Designs target-state architecture for key OCFCU domains including:
  • Core banking & surrounding ecosystem (Symitar, Jack Henry integrations, payments, statements, ancillary services).
  • Digital banking channels (online, mobile, APIs, third-party fintech integrations).
  • Lending, onboarding, and back-office platforms.
• Creates end-to-end solution designs: context diagrams, sequence/flow diagrams, APIs, data models, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and security patterns.
• Develop reference architecture for:
  • Cloud-native services (e.g., Azure/AWS), APIs, and integration layers.
  • Event-driven workflows (e.g., member activity, transactions, alerts, service).
• Builds and maintains a living architecture blueprint and application portfolio for OCFCU, including current state, target state, and interim milestones that align with the technology roadmap.
• Legacy Decomposition & Modernization
• Deep-dives into OCFCU’s existing legacy and vendor platforms:
  Symitar customizations, batch jobs, flat-file/EDI interfaces, on-prem services, and custom applications.
• Documents current-state architectures, dependencies, data flows, and technical debt in a form usable by engineers, operations, and leadership.
• Defines pragmatic modernization strategies, such as:
  • Encapsulating legacy systems via APIs.
  • Strangler patterns to incrementally replace monolithic functionality.
  • Re-platforming or re-architecting high-risk/high-value components.
• Prioritizes modernization efforts in partnership with the CIO, VP-level leaders, and business/product owners based on member impact, operational risk, and business value.
• Works closely with delivery teams to execute modernization iteratively, favoring measurable wins over "big bang" cutovers.
• Cloud-Native & AI/LLM Patterns for Financial Services
• Designs solutions that leverage cloud platforms (e.g., Azure/AWS)…