Senior Solution Architect – Strategy, Innovation and Delivery

Role Overview

• Leads solution architecture across complex initiatives through requirements analysis, architectural leadership, and oversight of architecture outcomes across delivery phases.
• Designs solution architectures for large or complex programs—including application, integration, data, and platform designs—in alignment with enterprise strategies, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
• Develops and governs architecture patterns for APIs/integration, event/messaging, security, resiliency, and cloud adoption; ensures reuse and consistency across the portfolio.
• Defines data architecture guidance (logical and physical models, canonical data structures, data domains, master/reference data, and lifecycle approaches) to support operational and analytical use cases.
• Provides architectural leadership for data platforms and ecosystems, such as data warehousing, data lakes/lakehouses, analytical platforms, streaming architectures, and cloud-native data services.
• Establishes best practices for data modeling, data integration, data quality, metadata management, lineage, and retention—ensuring data is reliable, well-governed, and fit for downstream analytics and automation.
• Partners with business, product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure architectures support reporting, regulatory, operational, and advanced analytics needs, including developing reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Advises delivery teams on architectural tradeoffs, solution options, platform capabilities, and engineering practices; supports alignment on implementation approaches and technical standards.
• Ensures non-functional requirements are addressed (scalability, performance, resiliency, observability, maintainability, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance), and applies appropriate architectural tactics to meet them.
• Aligns architecture with risk, governance, and control partners, ensuring solutions comply with enterprise security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory expectations.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders to analyze business requirements, data needs, and processes; produces architecture recommendations that align business strategy with technology capabilities.
• Drives enterprise systems thinking, maintaining a broad understanding of application, infrastructure, integration, and data architectures and how they collectively enable business capabilities.
• Explores emerging technologies (e.g., cloud-native services, modern integration approaches, data/analytics platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities) and develops pragmatic viewpoints on where they create value and where they introduce risk.

Requirements

• Significant experience in solution architecture across application, integration, platform, and data domains in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of business architecture concepts, business capability mapping, and aligning technology solutions to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to produce and govern architecture artifacts such as: o target-state architectures and roadmaps o solution designs and integration patterns o reference architectures and reusable standards o decision records and risk/controls alignment documentation
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns (API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, messaging, batch/file transfer where needed), and platform considerations for scalability and resiliency.
• Solid understanding of data architecture and data management practices (modeling, data quality, lineage, metadata, retention, and governance).
• Working knowledge of cloud architectures and cloud-native services, including security and operational considerations.
• Strong consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills; ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and leadership levels.
• Strategic mindset paired with delivery pragmatism—able to shape direction while supporting execution.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service