Zions Bancorporation · 8 hours ago
Enterprise Architect - SDLC
Midvale, Utah, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expZions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. They are seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on SDLC to design and manage technology systems and processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy and objectives.
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Responsibilities
Define and Govern Solution Architecture: Develop and document architecture content for specific stakeholder audiences to enable business or organizational outcomes. Address the needs and concerns of business and organizational stakeholders, producing corresponding functional and non-functional requirements. Ensure the solution architecture work products capture architecture concerns and decisions and are presented to project and architecture review boards. Work with partners across organizational boundaries, processes, and systems to design and implement integrated, traceable, measureable, efficient workflow and systems
System Design Activities: Gather and analyze system requirements, including understanding the system’s purpose, functionality, performance expectations, constraints, and user needs. Define the high-level structure and organization of the system, identifying major components, their responsibilities, and interactions. Decompose the system into smaller subsystems or modules, specifying interfaces and functionality. Design individual components or modules, specifying internal structure, algorithms, and data structures. Design data structures and databases, defining data schema, relationships, and access mechanisms
Architecture Governance: Ensure solution architecture alignment to the enterprise architecture blueprint. Review and approve EA artifacts such as reference architecture, patterns, standards, and solution architectures. Participate in Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release Trains, utilizing the Solution Architect role
Collaboration and Communication: Partner with the EA team to ensure architecture standards, guidelines, and procedures are followed. Provide architecture support on individual technology solutions and significant design changes to in-flight projects and initiatives. Promote awareness of cross-functional activities, best practices, new standards, emerging technologies, defined processes, and decisions
Qualification
Required
Proven experience in enterprise delivery process architecture, with a focus on SDLC
Familiarity with TOGAF and other industry frameworks
Strong understanding and experience with/in key IT operational domains (Engineering, Ops, ITSM, PMO, QA, Dev, Security, Risk, Change, Architecture)
Strong understanding of software and system development or change methodologies, processes, and tools
Strong understanding of enterprise operational system lifecycles, processes, and tools
Excellent communication, influence, and collaboration skills
Ability to document and present architecture content effectively
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and 8+ years of directly related experience. A combination of education and experience may meet qualifications
Benefits
Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA), and dependent care accounts
Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
Employee Ambassador preferred banking products
Company
Zions Bancorporation
Zions Bancorporation is a financial services company involved in SBA lending, public finance advisory services, and agricultural finance.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.09B2025-08-11Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-11-14Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2013-09-13Post Ipo Debt· $87.9M
Leadership Team
Harris Simmons
Chairman and CEO
Recent News
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