Chief Enterprise Architect

Job Locations US-PA-Remote | US-PA-Lancaster | US-NJ-Mt Laurel | US-DE-Greenville | US-VA-Richmond | US-MD-Gaithersburg

Our values define us and our culture inspires us to change lives for the better. Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, and every success we experience begins with them. Together we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities. We champion a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion. We promote a digitally enabled work environment to continuously enhance the experience of our employees and customers.

This is a full-time career opportunity that can be fully remote or hybrid within the Fulton footprint (DE, MD, PA, NJ, VA). Requires travel to corporate headquarters in Lancaster, PA (approximately 10-12 times a year).

This role is responsible for establishing and leading an uplifted enterprise architecture capability that strengthens alignment between business strategy, regulatory obligations, and technology execution across the bank.

This Chief Enterprise Architect serves as the primary architectural authority for the enterprise, ensuring technology strategies and investments are coherent, resilient, and positioned to support long term growth. The role provides the architectural foundation needed to modernize platforms, reduce complexity and risk, and enable consistent, disciplined technology decision making across the organization.

Enterprise architecture under this role is positioned as a strategic enabler-supporting speed, innovation, and compliance while maintaining strong governance and architectural integrity.

Partner closely with the CIO to define and execute the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards consistent with the bank's business strategy and risk appetite.
• Establish and maintain a future state enterprise architecture and multi year roadmap.
• Ensure architectural decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as the primary advisor on architecture strategy, modernization priorities, and long term technology direction.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into actionable architectural guidance across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Design and lead enterprise architecture governance processes.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance review forums to optimize and allow better solution decision making.
• Drive rationalization of legacy platforms, reduction of technical debt, and simplification of the technology landscape.
• Guide modernization efforts across core systems, digital platforms, data and analytics, cloud services, and integration capabilities to balance agility with enterprise control.
• Ensure enterprise architecture supports banking regulatory requirements, auditability, data governance, privacy, and cybersecurity standards.
• Embed resilience, availability, and disaster recovery expectations into architectural designs.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit partners to proactively manage architectural risk.
• Build, lead, and mature the enterprise architecture function, including enterprise, domain, and architects.
• Establish clear operating models, decision rights, and career paths within the architecture discipline.
• Foster a collaborative, consultative culture that emphasizes influence, accountability, and practical outcomes.
• Represent enterprise architecture across the enterprise.
• Communicate architectural concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences.
• Build strong partnerships with business and technology leaders to ensure architecture is viewed as a trusted enabling function.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: technical related fields. (Required)

Master's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: technical related fields. (Required)

Experience

12 or more years technology architecture with leadership at the enterprise level. (Required)

10 or more years supervisory. (Preferred)

10 or more years experience within banking or other highly regulated financial services environments. (Preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven ability to influence, lead change, and operate effectively at the executive level (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to align enterprise architecture with CIO led technology strategy (Required)
• Familiarity with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modern architectural approaches (Required)
• Strong communication skills (Required)

This role may perform other job duties as assigned by the manager. Each employee of the Organization, regardless of position, is accountable for reading, understanding and acting on the contents of all Company-assigned and/or job related Compliance Programs, regulations and policies and procedures, as well as ensure that all Compliance Training assignments are completed by established due dates. This includes but is not limited to, understanding and identifying compliance risks impacting their department(s), ensuring compliance with applicable laws or regulations, and escalating compliance risks to the appropriate level of management.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges on all job postings regardless of state. We set standard salary ranges for our roles based on the position, function, and responsibilities, as benchmarked against similarly sized companies in our industry. Specific compensation offered will be determined based on a combination of factors including the candidate's knowledge, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. The salary range may vary based on geographic location. The salary range for this position is $189,300.00 - $315,400.00 annually. Additional Compensation Components This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. This job is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive compensation plan subject to individual and company performance.

Additionally, as part of our Total Rewards program, Fulton Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package to those who qualify. This includes medical plans with prescription drug coverage; flexible spending account or health savings account depending on the medical plan chosen; dental and vision insurance; life insurance; 401(k) program with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan; paid time off programs including holiday pay and paid volunteer time; disability insurance coverage and maternity and parental leave; adoption assistance; educational assistance and a robust wellness program with financial incentives. To learn more about your potential eligibility for these programs, please visit Benefits & Wellness | Fulton Bank.

Fulton Bank ("Fulton") is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons. Fulton will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, covered veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

As a condition of employment, individuals must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for a work visa by Fulton Bank currently or in the future.