Drive the strategic transformation and enterprise-wide adoption of Truist’s Architecture Strategy anchored on the Truist Product & Platform Architecture (TPPA)
Develop, evangelize and institutionalize TPPA as the unifying construct for Truist’s enterprise model and blueprint for aligning business products, services, and processes directly with technology capabilities
Define and manage the enterprise taxonomy and business architecture components underpinning TPPA to drive consistency and provide aligned insights to guide enterprise-wide strategic, operational, technical, and risk focused decisions and execution
Codify and govern the TPPA layered architecture model (Business Consumables, Enabling Platforms, Enterprise Platforms, Enabling Functions)
Create and maintain the TPPA registry and business architecture taxonomy and meta model linking products, platforms, processes, and costs
Establish TPPA as the “Rosetta Stone” linking Truist’s business products and their required external/internal services to the Truist process inventory and capability models
Align business consumable products (e.g., Commercial Real Estate) maps to enabling platforms (e.g., Origination, Servicing) and enterprise platforms (e.g., Cloud, Data, Integration)
Drive end-to-end traceability across the business, operations, and technology stack such as from client journeys to APIs, data contracts, and infrastructure patterns
Inform Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) and activity-based costing for architecture and platform investments in support of total-cost-of-ownership optimization and platform rationalization
Incorporate TPPA into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from agile product cadences through architecture guardrails and compliance automation
Serve as TPPA Business Product Owner to drive instantiation of TPPA into ServiceNow and the implementation of standardized lineage and evidence collection via Common Services Data Model (CSDM)
Serve as talent manager for the Architecture Strategy team with responsibility for building and maintaining the team from the ground up through hiring (internal/external) and ongoing teammate management and growth development
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Business, or equivalent education and related training
Proven experience mapping business products and processes to technology capabilities at scale
Familiarity with BIAN, ISO 20022, and agile delivery frameworks (e.g. SAFe)
Strong financial acumen for investment planning and cost optimization
Twenty years of architecture, design, delivery, or service planning and management experience, with a minimum of ten years in the banking/financial services domain
Comprehensive experience with various architectural domains such as application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration
Demonstrated experience leading development of strategic business or technology direction and architecture vision for a large organization
Experience in developing target states and roadmaps that align to short and long-term business goals
Ten years of previous management experience
Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
Demonstrated ability to drive decisions
Strong analytical and broad architectural skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong negotiation/facilitation skills (both internally and with external vendors)
Significant knowledge of current and emerging architecture principles, methodologies, and tools
Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with ability to differentiate feasible from academic solutions
Demonstrated thought-leadership skills with the ability to translate high-level business planning information into application needs/solutions
Demonstrated proficiency in basic computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products
Ability to travel, occasionally overnight
Tech Stack
Cloud
SDLC
ServiceNow
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision insurance
Life insurance
Disability
Accidental death and dismemberment
Tax-preferred savings accounts
401k plan
Vacation days
Sick days
Paid holidays
Potential for pension plan, stock units, deferred compensation