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The hiring range for this opportunity is $140,000 to $175,000 annually along with incentive opportunities, creating a competitive total compensation package based on our pay scale, and may be modified by location and is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The position is focused on improving and modernizing the current business delivery of information technology. As a Technology Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for architecting business value outcomes through context and competency driven engagement. This includes building, guiding, and overseeing architecture, processes, and deliverables at multiple levels and throughout the delivery life cycle to ensure alignment with strategies and roadmaps, accelerate delivery across the technology portfolio, identify optimization opportunities, and manage trade-offs, impacts, risk, opportunities, and value creation. The role requires high levels of influence, business knowledge, innovative problem-solving skills, and in-depth technological acumen.

Through collaboration and cross-functional relationships with applications departments and business groups, this position will lead the function that applies research, design, processes, and execution excellence to deliver compelling application technology strategies, roadmaps, and services directly aligned to our business strategy. This position will also partner with the business teams to ensure our employees and customers’ needs are understood, prioritized, and proactively delivered through the IT process.

This architect will be an expert at leading applications design and delivery in a highly sophisticated modern IT organization fluent in agile delivery practices and have a proven track record for driving significant change/IT transformation through a matrixed model.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create strategies to drive efficiency while working closely with the business, vendors, and internal technology teams to facilitate innovation to solve real business problems.
• Provide consultation to product/engineering teams and stakeholders on business processes and existing system functionality to ensure technical and business aspects of solutions are aligned to the proposed value.
• Participate in evaluations of off-the-shelf software packages to ensure they meet business and technical requirements. Lead vendor evaluation efforts, including creation of RFPs and selection recommendation.
• Thoroughly understand the direction, goals, and the competitive environment of the Bank and determine how architecture choices can add value to the organization
• Create proposals for solving high-impact business problems and gain buy-in from business and technical leadership teams involved in the delivery.
• Identify solutions which leverage existing capabilities and standard process methods wherever possible.
• Work with product and engineering teams to understand the tradeoffs of potential solutions and how they fit into product roadmaps.
• Make expert recommendations and decisions clearly linked to the organization’s strategic and financial goals
• Develop overall reference architectures, as well as critical investment planning in strategic platform technologies and services.
• Develop and maintain an aspirational architectural road map for the enterprise, maintaining current and planned system architectural blueprints
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, highlighting short-term trade-offs vs long-term commitments
• Demonstrated technology and personal leadership experience in architecting, crafting and successfully building highly scalable data solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains a current understanding of Bank policies and procedures in compliance with all federal and state laws, including but not limited to Reg B, FCRA, FDCPA, Bank Secrecy Act (SARs, CIP, OFAC), Information Security (GLBA), Identity Theft Red Flags, Financial Elder Abuse Reporting, Consumer CFPB rules, and any other applicable regulations that may be specific to the position.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILLS REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technology related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
• Experience in Modern Data Architecture techniques and Cloud Data Technologies
• Enterprise scale expertise in data management standard methodologies such as data integration, data security, data warehousing, data analytics, metadata management and data quality.
• Expert ability to analyze cost and performance in data solutions and recommend improvement for optimization.
• 15 years of data solution architecture, design and development delivery experience.
• Relevant certification in public cloud services is highly desirable.
• Ability to understand and adapt to changing business priorities and technological advancements.
• Willingness to partner effectively with technology business partners across the Bank.
• Participate in the development and regular testing of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of TCB IT through application of ITIL Service Delivery practices.
• Design, develop, install, and maintain operating systems, utilities, and applications software on computing systems.
• Resolve system emergencies with significant impact on the integrity of user data and systems.
• Establish software/hardware standards and systems policies and procedures.
• Possess an affinity for creative problem solving as it relates to overcoming technical challenges, focused on how we can solve problems, not why we can’t.
• Experience in product delivery and architecture, including as an Architect of cloud solutions
• Demonstratable experience in designing and implementing enterprise scale systems
• Proven ability to influence the strategic direction of business solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, open and honest when facing challenges and issues
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically

COMPANY PROFILE

Established in 1975, Tri Counties Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ: TCBK) headquartered in Chico, California, with assets of nearly $10 billion and more than 45 years of financial stability. Tri Counties Bank provides a unique brand of Service With Solutions® for communities throughout California with a breadth of personal, small business and commercial banking services, plus an extensive branch network, more than 37,000 surcharge-free ATMs nationwide, and advanced online and mobile banking.

Tri Counties Bank remains strong and profitable through our top-down commitment to our core values, sound business principles and responsible lending practices.

Our success is also based on our community engagement. We still believe in the vision of the helpful and caring community banker. As we grow and serve more communities, we become more involved, providing substantial financial and volunteer support to local economies and community organizations. We applaud our employees who roll up their sleeves to work and volunteer for a greater good in our communities.

Tri Counties Bank hires individuals who are qualified for the role and who represent the communities in which we serve. We look to place people in positions where they can best utilize their abilities and strengths, and where they are able to grow with the Bank.

Tri Counties Bank is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.