Director, Architecture Lead

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Platform Level Architect – Global Payments & Trade to join our Global Payments & Trade team. This role is located in Pittsburg.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Define, maintain, and communicate the target-state architecture for the Global Payments & Trade platform.
• Translate business strategy and platform priorities into architecture roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
• Provide strategic and hands-on architectural leadership across major platform initiatives, transformation programs, and critical design decisions.
• Establish and govern architecture guardrails across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure solution designs are scalable, resilient, reusable, practical, and aligned with delivery objectives.
• Drive technology simplification and standardization through common patterns, shared capabilities, and reduction of platform duplication.
• Identify and address legacy constraints, technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure platform solutions meet expectations for availability, performance, scalability, security, observability, recoverability, and supportability.
• Lead architecture governance activities, including architecture reviews, design approvals, architectural decision records, and exception management.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, control, and business stakeholders to balance innovation, resilience, speed to market, and risk management.
• Guide the adoption of data-driven solutions and AI/ML-enabled capabilities where appropriate to improve platform efficiency, intelligence, automation, and decision support.
• Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and technical leads to strengthen architecture capabilities and engineering excellence throughout the organization.
• Apply deep Payments and Treasury Services domain knowledge to support critical transaction flows, liquidity and cash management capabilities, operational controls, client servicing, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure architecture decisions support high-volume transaction processing, straight-through processing, operational resilience, and service reliability.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, or senior engineering leadership roles within large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated success designing and governing distributed systems and enterprise platforms supporting mission-critical and transaction-intensive workloads.
• Strong experience across multiple architecture domains including applications, APIs, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational platforms.
• Strong understanding of Payments and Treasury Services technology ecosystems, including payment processing architectures, cash management services, transaction workflows, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization, platform transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy rationalization initiatives.
• Expertise with modern architecture and engineering practices including microservices, service-oriented architecture, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, data modeling, data movement strategies, and integration architectures across relational and non-relational platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized deployment models, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and software delivery automation.
• Understanding of performance engineering, scalability strategies, operational resilience, disaster recovery, observability, logging, tracing, and production support considerations.
• Strong knowledge of security-by-design principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, secure integration, and risk management.
• Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML capabilities within enterprise platforms, including machine learning lifecycle concepts, responsible AI principles, governance requirements, and GenAI-enabled architectures.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product, engineering, operations, control, and business organizations without relying solely on direct authority.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing technical talent across architecture and engineering communities.