Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.
Responsibilities:
Participates in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with your teammates.
Collaborates and contributes insight to solution design ideation, ensuring both the success of the product and adherence to enterprise architecture principles.
Designs, modifies, develops and implements software solutions.
Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
Infuses quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintains, distributed service-based framework to create and expand business and technical capabilities.
Employs industry best practices to evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process.
Serves as a peer-leader, encourages a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.
Qualifications:
Requires a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, or related field, and four (4) years of experience in the role or in a related position.
Full term of experience must include:
Creating and publishing reusable custom frameworks to handle and execute internal business logic and support the development experience using Java, Spring Web, Kafka, Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud.
Architected scalable, resilient software applications using JAVA based frameworks.
Creating flexible and scalable back-end server systems using Java, multithreading, and streaming, asynchronous operations.
Utilizing the Spring technology stack, including SpringBoot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Eureka Discovery Server, Zuul API Gateway, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring MVC, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, and JDBC to build resilient and scalable distributed micro services.
Developing SOAP and REST web services using latest versions of Apache CXF, Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate frameworks.
Utilizing shell scripting languages, including Python, Perl and Bash to create script applications, test scripts, network scripts, and infrastructure scripts.
Utilizing API paradigms, including REST, SOAP.
Utilizing databases paradigms, including Document (DynamoDB), Relations (MySQL, Oracle 11g)
Integrating messaging and data stream systems, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Active MQ.
Utilizing Amazon Web Services, including EC2, AWS Lambda, RDS, IAM, Elastic Cache, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, and Route53 to create cloud native microservices on AWS infrastructure.
Creating Terraform scripts to automate the creation of AWS cloud for easier reproduction of the AWS infrastructure across development, test and production environments.
Creating reliable and observable backend Java applications by leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
May telecommute from any U.S. location.
Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer.
For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com and apply online (Job ID: 47608) or email resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line: 47608.
Direct applicants only.
About Us
Equal Employment Opportunity
Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in Software Engineering or related field
- Minimum four years experience in the role or related position
- Creating and publishing reusable custom frameworks using Java, Spring Web, Kafka, Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud
- Architected scalable, resilient applications using Java-based frameworks
- Building flexible scalable back-end systems using Java, multithreading, streaming, and asynchronous operations
- Experience with the Spring technology stack: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Eureka, Zuul, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring MVC, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC
- Developing SOAP and REST web services using Apache CXF, Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
- Experience with shell scripting using Python, Perl, and Bash
- Experience with API paradigms: REST and SOAP
- Experience with databases: DynamoDB, MySQL, Oracle 11g
- Integrating messaging and streaming systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, ActiveMQ
- Experience with AWS services: EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, Route53
- Creating Terraform scripts to automate AWS infrastructure provisioning
- Applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to create reliable and observable backend Java applications
Citizens Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with multiple plan options and preventive care highlighted as fully covered. Mental-health support is also emphasized through EAP-style counseling access and app-based support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as meaningful, including an employer match and additional company contributions in some descriptions. Stock purchase features and occasional profit-sharing framing add to the overall retirement-and-wealth picture.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as generous, including a substantial PTO bank, paid holidays, and sizeable parental leave. Adoption assistance and emergency backup care are also presented as part of the leave-related support set.
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What We Do
As one of the oldest and largest financial services firms in the United States with a history dating back to 1828, we’re committed to providing solutions and expertise that support our customers, clients, colleagues, and communities in what’s next on their own unique journey. We invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. Investments in AI, cloud computing, machine learning and automation provide our engineers the tools that enable us to remain competitive and win in today’s environment. At Citizens, we recognize that the journey to accomplishment is no longer linear and that individuals are made of all they have done and all they are going to do. Whether you’re considering banking with us or looking to work with us, you’ll find a customer-centric culture and a supportive, collaborative workforce at Citizens. You’re made ready and so are we. If you're ready to advance your career in technology and security, learn more about opportunity's Citizens offers here: https://jobs.citizensbank.com/digital-transformation
Why Work With Us
We empower the colleagues that power our tech. With growth & upskilling opportunities and sought-after benefits, plus a diverse culture of people and perspectives, we help our colleagues achieve career goals. Because innovation can’t happen without the minds and hearts of our people. Technology is constantly evolving, and we believe you can too.
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