Principal Architect

Job Description Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, Rhode Island location. Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural mentorship and oversight at a Company Platform level, including its supporting Technical Platform.
• Work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams, including business development, product management, software engineering, cyber-security and departmental executives to drive tangible results.
• Responsible for delivering roadmaps and strategic directions for business units.
• Contribute to, and review results of, RFPs and Options Analysis with a specific focus on strategic planning and architecture roadmaps.
• Present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to Technology and business senior management.
• Identify and prescribe product standards, deployment patterns and reference architectures.
• Contribute to the Solution Approach and Solution Design deliverables.

Qualifications: Requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field and 7 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or related position preparing application solution design and high-level architecture. Must have 7 years of experience with:

• Preparing application solution design and high-level architecture using Architect tools, including Enterprise Sparx, and Microsoft Visio;
• Developing cloud native applications to facilitate deployment of cloud infrastructure, including AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS SQL Server, Redis Cache;
• Implementing security standards and protocols including OWASP, oAuth2.0 using, SAML, JSON Wen Token (JWT), Kerberos, Spring Security, and IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM);
• Utilizing messaging technologies, including JMS, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, and IBM MQ to build scalable and reliable messaging systems;
• Utilizing Microservice development and design patterns, NoSQL Databases, AWS Cloud, and CICD pipeline to architect new generation platforms and systems;
• Architecting cloud native applications using Domain Driven Design, Microservice design patterns, and 12 factor app methodologies;
• Building Event Driven Systems with event sourcing using KAFKA, Data/Activity Streams, and Docker/Kubernetes;
• Utilizing Spring Core, AOP, DAO, Boot, Batch, REST, Cloud Bus, Spring Boot Admin, and Spring Security to build robust and scalable enterprise applications;
• Developing microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey, and employed technologies like MOXy, Jackson, Swagger, Layer7, APIGEE, Netflix Zuul, Hystrix, Resilient4j, and Apache Camel to enhance functionality and performance; and
• Utilizing programming languages, including Java, J2EE, Swing, and Python.

100% telecommuting permitted from any US location. Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer. For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at and apply online (Job ID: 48323) or email resume and cover letter to View email address on click.appcast.io with subject line: 48323. Direct applicants only. About Us Equal Employment Opportunity Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability. Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer Job Applicant Data Privacy Policy Background Check Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information. Citizens Bank