Lead Architect- Corporate Technology

Job Summary:

As a Lead Architect on the Corporate Oversight and Governance Technology (COGT) team, you will partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to translate strategic goals into actionable architectural plans. You will advise on business architecture solutions, propose innovative improvements to business capabilities and processes, and ensure seamless integration with enterprise architecture domains. This role is responsible for creating high-level design artifacts, establishing and enforcing architectural standards, and serving as a subject matter expert across the organization. The ideal candidate brings formal training in business architecture, strong analytical and communication skills, and experience in financial services, with a focus on compliance, controls, or operational risk.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior leadership to understand strategic goals and translate them into architectural plans.
• Advises cross-functional teams on business architecture solutions to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current business solutions
• Propose innovative solutions and improvements to existing business architecture – business capabilities, services, and processes - to maintain a competitive edge.
• Ensure that the business architecture integrates seamlessly with other enterprise architecture domains (applications, data, infrastructure and security).
• Create high-level design artifacts, including value streams, business capability models, process models, and data flows. 
• Ensure that the proposed solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with the organization's architectural standards.
• Collaborate across business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of requirements.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices across COGT, and as the Business Architect, serve as the organization’s go-to subject matter expert.
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on business architecture concepts and proficient advanced experience – Business Architecture Guild, BizBok, TOGAF, Archimate
• Applied experience in business architecture with a background in designing and implementing solutions in a complex environment.
• Strategic thinker and passion for business strategy and business processes.
• Experienced in financial services, ideally with exposure to Compliance, Controls Management, Regulatory Engagement or Operational Risk functions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives
• Knowledge of industry standards and regulatory initiatives.
• Proactive and self-motivated, with ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience and Knowledge in one or more software, applications, and architecture.
• Experience and knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
• Interest in innovative technologies and how these can be applied, e.g. Generative AI and Agentic AI.