Enterprise Architect

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Architect to shape the digital strategy and target technology ecosystem. In this role, the enterprise architect will drive the creation of the target architecture towards business capabilities that are modular, composable cloud-native services on modernized infrastructure. The enterprise architect will partner with domain architects to design target banking platforms lending to reuse, resiliency, agility, and customer centricity.

The enterprise architect will be a passionate technologist that can go broad as well as deep – must have the experience to operate across the enterprise through the understanding of available technology and tools and be an expert in the solution architecture practice. The candidate must be able to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and possess excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and reasoning skills.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to senior leadership to develop the architectural framework & delivery for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking

• Provide vision, direction and expertise to senior leadership on implementing the transformation strategy describing the current state, target state and transition architecture

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an architectural domain expert advisor to leadership 

• Ensure applications adhere to established Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies and industry best practices as it transforms toward target state architecture

• Drive the definition, establishment, selection of strategic tools, and application of architecture frameworks

• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization and can influence internal and vendor roadmaps in a significant capacity

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

• Lead the development of strategy for capabilities across the