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Principal Architect Director (Technology)

Huntington National Bank
Columbus, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 4/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/1/2026
Description

Summary:

The Principal Architect-Director will lead a group of teams dedicated to pushing the limits of continuous improvement and innovation of our technology stack and work across the organization to influence our long-term technology strategy and vision for the company. The Principal Architect-Director is responsible for strategic and tactical delivery, including maintaining legacy functionality, while moving to next-generation capabilities – across the entire ecosystem.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Enable the effective delivery of business value through key solution architecture decisions, including transformation of ecosystems, lifecycle and processes
  • Engage senior business and technology leadership to help them understand the role of technology, engaging them on the overall strategy, managing expectations, and providing creative thought leadership and insights
  • Provide thought-leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, leveraging ‘big data’, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence
  • Support the strategic goals of the bank, including alignment with strategic capabilities, target architectures & technology standards; Leading the definition and execution of a roadmap to deliver a target state supporting business and enterprise goals
  • Manage demand and delivery of tactical and strategic projects that maintain current service levels and address ad-hoc needs, while transitioning to future state; Leading enterprise maturity in data governance, quality and accessibility - while promoting a risk-aware culture, ensuring efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
  • Work with vendors and external partners to deliver functionality and support capability development; Maintenance of high-performing ecosystems including the retirement of legacy systems and build-out of next-generation platforms
  • Other duties as assigned


Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience in related field (preferably computer science/management information systems)
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in a Technology Leadership position
  • 7 years leading strategy, architecture and execution of projects
  • 5 years of hands-on experience in architecture and engineering
  • Cloud Technology / Architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Strong communication and influencing skills - with demonstrated experience of actions put into place based on presentation to business & technology executives (Director of Technology, CTO, COO, CIO, Business Division Leads)


Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands on emerging Technologies and Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • 15 years of experience in a Technology Leadership position
  • Cloud Technology / Architecture (GCP)
  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
  • Experience in Consumer/retail and commercial/business banking – branch and digital (online/direct) banking
  • Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud
  • Experience with security, performance, availability, environment configuration
  • Experience with business intelligence, visualization, self-service dashboards, advanced analytics
  • Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems
  • Strong organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to plan and prioritize work, manage supply & demand, and build high performing teams
  • Proven ability to define and deliver against a strategic roadmap with in-depth understanding of the business strategy to be supported
  • Strong communication and influencing skills - with demonstrated experience of actions put into place based on presentation to business & technology executives (Director of Technology, CTO, COO, CIO, Business Division Leads)


Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Yes

Workplace Type

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range

125,000.00 - 255,000.00 USD Annual

The compensation range represents the low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.  Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.  In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Tobacco-Free Hiring Practice: Visit Huntington's Career Web Site for more details.

Note to Agency Recruiters: Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.

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