Enterprise Solutions Architect

Enterprise Solutions Architect

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For over 70 years, Teachers Federal Credit Union has been committed to guiding members toward building a strong financial foundation today for a better tomorrow. Recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s Best-In-State Credit Unions in 2025, Teachers has grown into one of the nation’s leading credit unions. As we expand our reach across the country, we remain focused on being both a Best Place to Bank and a Best Place to Work. From part-time roles to executive leadership positions, Teachers offers a wide range of meaningful career opportunities.

Summary

The IT Enterprise Solution Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and delivering cross-functional, end-to-end technology solutions across the enterprise. This role ensures that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with organizational objectives, while enabling modernization and continuous improvement. Operating across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and cyber security concerns, the architect acts as a bridge between technology teams and key stakeholders, translating requirements into cohesive architectures that support both current state operations and future state capabilities.

Qualifications & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field required
• Minimum eight years of progressive IT experience with solution or enterprise architecture responsibilities
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated environments preferred
• Demonstrated experience across multiple technology domains, including applications, data platforms, infrastructure, and cyber security
• Strong understanding of:
  • Enterprise application and integration architectures
  • Data architecture, analytics platforms, and governance models
  • Cloud, hybrid, and on prem infrastructure architectures
  • Proven ability to evaluate and integrate SaaS and vendor platforms into enterprise ecosystems
• TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred
• Cloud platform certifications (Azure, AWS, or equivalent) preferred

Job Duties

• Defines and governs end-to-end solution architectures spanning applications, data, integration, infrastructure, and security
• Develops current-state and target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and architectural decision records aligned with enterprise standards and technology strategy
• Ensures solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and operable at scale by embedding security-, privacy-, and resilience-by-design principles
• Balances functional, non-functional, regulatory, and security requirements, evaluating trade-offs across cost, performance, risk, scalability, and maintainability
• Identifies, documents, and mitigates architectural and security risks throughout the solution lifecycle
• Acts as a bridge between technology teams and business stakeholders, translating organizational needs into cohesive, secure technical solutions
• Partners with platform, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and delivery teams to support solution execution, issue resolution, and architectural assurance
• Leads and participates in architecture and security design reviews for major initiatives and third-party solutions
• Strategic Architecture & Initiative Leadership
• Contributes to enterprise architecture direction aligned with the multi-year transformation roadmap
• Provides architectural leadership across the full project lifecycle, from ideation through production readiness and go-live
• Supports cloud-first, AI, and automation initiatives through solution architecture design and implementation guidance
• Identifies cross-project dependencies, integration impacts, and technical risks across initiatives
• Evaluates and guides vendor and SaaS solutions, ensuring architectural fit, security posture, and alignment with enterprise standards
• Produces and maintains architecture artifacts, including solution designs, diagrams, integration patterns, security models, and decision records
• Contributes to and enforces architecture and security governance, standards, and best practices
• Supports required project lifecycle documentation, including solution designs and infrastructure estimates
• Performs other duties as needed upon request by immediate supervisor

Benefits

• This position is eligible for our annual discretionary bonus program. Some positions within the credit union also qualify for quarterly performance incentives
• Paid time off for vacation, personal days, and holidays
• 401(k) company contribution
• Teachers pays 100% of Dental & Vision premium
• Tuition reimbursement is offered to full-time employees
• Exclusive employee discount of 0.96% APR on credit card loans and a 1.00% APR on all other loans through Teachers

The good faith range for this position is $120,750 to $150,750 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential employee qualifications and operational needs. The salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

All candidates will be subject to a background check, credit check, and drug test to determine employment eligibility.