Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.
Responsibilities:
• Provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform.
• Work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results.
• Responsible for delivering roadmaps and strategic directions for business units.
• Contribute to, and review results of, RFPs and Options Analysis with a specific focus on strategic planning and architecture roadmaps.
• Present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to Technology and business senior management.
• Identify and prescribe product standards, deployment patterns and reference architectures.
• Contribute to the Solution Approach and Solution Design deliverables.
Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field and 7 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or related position preparing application solution design and high-level architecture.
Must have 7 years of experience with:
• Preparing application solution design and high-level architecture using Architect tools, including Enterprise Sparx, and Microsoft Visio;
• Developing cloud native applications to facilitate deployment of cloud infrastructure, including AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS SQL Server, Redis Cache;
• Implementing security standards and protocols including OWASP, oAuth2.0 using, SAML, JSON Wen Token (JWT), Kerberos, Spring Security, and IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM);
• Utilizing messaging technologies, including JMS, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, and IBM MQ to build scalable and reliable messaging systems;
• Utilizing Microservice development and design patterns, NoSQL Databases, AWS Cloud, and CICD pipeline to architect new generation platforms and systems;
• Architecting cloud native applications using Domain Driven Design, Microservice design patterns, and 12 factor app methodologies;
• Building Event Driven Systems with event sourcing using KAFKA, Data/Activity Streams, and Docker/Kubernetes;
• Utilizing Spring Core, AOP, DAO, Boot, Batch, REST, Cloud Bus, Spring Boot Admin, and Spring Security to build robust and scalable enterprise applications;
• Developing microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey, and employed technologies like MOXy, Jackson, Swagger, Layer7, APIGEE, Netflix Zuul, Hystrix, Resilient4j, and Apache Camel to enhance functionality and performance; and
• Utilizing programming languages, including Java, J2EE, Swing, and Python.
100% telecommuting permitted from any US 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: 48323) or email resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line: 48323.
Direct applicants only.
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field (or foreign equivalent).
- 7 years progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or related position preparing application solution design and high-level architecture.
- 7 years preparing application solution design and high-level architecture using architect tools, including Sparx Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Visio.
- 7 years developing cloud-native applications and deploying cloud infrastructure including AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS (SQL Server), and Redis Cache.
- 7 years implementing security standards and protocols including OWASP, OAuth2.0, SAML, JWT, Kerberos, Spring Security, and IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM).
- 7 years utilizing messaging technologies including JMS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and IBM MQ to build scalable messaging systems.
- 7 years utilizing microservice development and design patterns, NoSQL databases, AWS Cloud, and CI/CD pipelines to architect platforms and systems.
- Experience architecting cloud-native applications using Domain-Driven Design, microservice patterns, and 12-factor app methodologies.
- Experience building event-driven systems with event sourcing using Kafka, data/activity streams, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience utilizing Spring Framework components (Core, AOP, DAO, Boot, Batch, REST, Cloud Bus, Spring Boot Admin, Spring Security).
- Experience developing microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey, and technologies like MOXy, Jackson, Swagger, Layer7, Apigee, Netflix Zuul, Hystrix, Resilience4j, and Apache Camel.
- Proficiency in programming languages including Java, J2EE, Swing, and Python.
Citizens Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Citizens and has not been reviewed or approved by Citizens.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as six weeks at 100% pay for all new parents, with up to 16 weeks for birthing parents. Family-building and caregiving supports include more than $25,000 in adoption assistance and up to 10 days of backup care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes 11 paid holidays and up to 27 PTO days, with materials encouraging employees to use their time. This breadth is frequently positioned as a core strength of the total rewards package.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay practices are presented as equitable, with disclosures citing near-parity by gender and no gaps for people of color in similar roles. Transparency shows up in posted hourly ranges for retail roles, and some markets list banker pay at competitive levels.
Citizens Insights
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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