Enterprise Architect

Job Profile

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. As an Enterprise Architect within PNC’s Enterprise Architecture organization, the preferred candidate will reside and work in one of our Technology hub locations: Birmingham, AL; Phoenix, AZ; Cleveland, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; or Dallas, TX. Responsibilities require time in the office with the opportunity for remote work at the manager’s discretion.
As a Enterprise Architect within PNC’s Enterprise Architecture organization, they will be responsible for strategy and architecture, with a heavy focus on business architecture and translating business strategy into architecture plans and business architecture models.
Job Description:
This Enterprise Architect position will partner with business and technology leaders, SMEs, and solution architects across the Lines of Businesses to define and drive strategic roadmaps for transforming and rationalizing our application portfolio to meet PNC’s business capability needs. In this role, they will draw upon their business and technology experience to partner with key stakeholders to ensure that the strategic business capability needs, technology perspectives, architectures, and roadmaps are well crafted, presented, and achieve consensus. They will be required to understand complex business and system interactions to develop business architecture deliverables such as value streams, journey maps, capability models, and process models, by applying industry best practice frameworks.
Key deliverables in partnership with the other stakeholders are:
• Understand key strategic direction of key business and CIO aligned areas and serve as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Provide thought leadership in translating business needs into architecture and bringing alignment to technology solutions.
• Create and analyze relevant information and develop technology recommendations that are presented to senior management and business stakeholders.
• Bring siloed organizations together to work towards a common strategy.
• Influence at multiple levels of the organization and multiple priorities to continue to make progress.
• Interface with executive stakeholders to articulate business impact of technology challenges /decisions and facilitate decision making.
• Facilitate the construction of business models, which may include business capabilities, processes and organization design, and work collaboratively with business strategists, process owners and subject matter experts.
Some specific accountabilities:
o Review any proposed new technologies, including SaaS solutions for portfolio fit.
o Review any new application deployment for portfolio fit.
o Assess and manage the changes to the enterprise business capability model.
o Participation in the business architecture community of practice as well as the EA organization.
o Facilitating road mapping sessions
o Executive level presentations.
Some key desired skills:
• Proven experience in strategic thinking, business architecture practices and well versed in managing capability model.
• Strong understanding of business architecture modelling (Value Streams, Capability views, and process modeling)
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment across lines of businesses and rationalizing technologies.
• Experience working in financial services organizations, preferably in a vendor hosted application ecosystem
• Excellent communication, influencing and presentation skills.
• Certifications in Business Architecture, TOGAF, or other architecture frameworks is desirable but not required.
PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Creates strategic roadmaps for transitioning to target enterprise future state, in alignment with business and technology goals while analyzing client requirements and collaborating with R&D divisions to provide ongoing support.
• Creates strategic roadmaps, and aligns these with enterprise strategies, business objectives, enterprise standards, processes and methodologies.
• Analyzes enterprise capabilities and IT opportunities in enterprise business processes; provides resolutions for enterprise architecture improvements by utilizing new technological applications.
• Enables businesses and technology partners to drive business outcomes by providing optimum IT solutions and capabilities while mitigating risk.
• Works with other enterprise architecture staff, experts and decision makers to accurately define client requirements; provides ongoing support for data, applications and system client requests.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred SkillsCompetitive Advantages, Customer Solutions, Design, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Machine Learning, Risk Assessments, Technical Knowledge

CompetenciesDecision Making and Critical Thinking, Emerging Technologies, Industry Knowledge, IT Architecture, Organizational Leadership, Service Oriented Architecture Technologies, Strategic Thinking, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

Work ExperienceRoles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

EducationBachelors

CertificationsNo Required Certification(s)

LicensesNo Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 8 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit Your PNC Total Rewards.

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