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An Enterprise Architect is responsible for ensuring that the business mission, strategy, and processes of an organization are aligned with the organization's IT strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that show how best to meet the current and future needs of the organization.
$154,189 / year median in Rhode Island
+5% projected growth
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Position range in Rhode Island $82k - $155k Per Year Senior Architect
Citizens Financial Group Inc, not banking services
Occupation:
Computer Network Architects
Location:
Johnston, RI - 02919
Job Type:
Regular, Full Time (30 Hours or More), Permanent Employment, Day Shift Shift
Posted:
08/03/2026
Positions available: 1
Source:
EmployRI
Web Site:
EmployRI
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Not Specified
Updated:
08/03/2026
Expires:
10/02/2026
Agency Job ID:
CTZJP00003555
Job #: 1568772
Job Requirements and Properties
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Full Time Education
Bachelor's Degree Experience
84 Month(s) Schedule
Full Time Job Type
Regular Duration
Permanent Employment Hours
40 Hours Per Week
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JOB TITLE
Sr. Software Engineer
JOB NUMBER
CTZJP00003555 At Citizens, we invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. As a Senior Architect, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the organization. As part of our team, you're made ready for a fulfilling careerwith exciting new challenges and opportunities to stretch yourself
The Senior Architect provides architecture leadership for the TA Reimagine program and its supporting applications, integrations, platforms, and data services. This role partners with business leaders, product owners, engineers, vendors, and Enterprise Architecture to define and the future-state Talent Acquisition technology strategy.
The role is responsible for establishing current-state and target-state architectures, guiding modernization efforts, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Senior Architect serves as the lead architect for TA technology initiatives, providing technical leadership, governance, and oversight across the full solution lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Define and maintain architecture roadmaps, standards, and target-state designs for the TA technology ecosystem.
Translate business capabilities and program objectives into scalable solution architectures and implementation plans.
Lead architecture decisions across recruiting, candidate engagement, interviewing, assessments, offer management, onboarding integrations, reporting, and analytics.
Drive application modernization, integration, migration, and platform rationalization initiatives.
Design secure, resilient, cloud-enabled solutions leveraging APIs, event-driven architectures, SaaS platforms, and enterprise services.
Establish integration patterns and data flows across recruiting, HCM, identity, collaboration, analytics, and third-party platforms.
Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, performance, and resiliency requirements.
Lead architecture governance activities, including design reviews, risk assessments, and Architecture Review Board engagements.
Partner with engineering teams throughout delivery to ensure successful implementation and operational readiness.
Mentor architects and engineers while promoting architecture standards and engineering best practices.
Skills & Experience
8+ years of experience in application architecture, solution architecture, software engineering, or enterprise technology delivery.
Experience supporting Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Human Capital Management (HCM), or workforce technology platforms.
Experience leading architecture for large-scale modernization, digital transformation, or enterprise platform implementations.
Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration architecture, cloud technologies, data architecture, security, and DevOps practices.
Experience designing scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications and services.
Experience with API, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native, and SaaS integration patterns.
Experience integrating enterprise and third-party platforms within complex technology ecosystems.
Knowledge of identity management, data privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and non-functional architecture principles.
Experience presenting architecture recommendations and technical tradeoffs to governance forums and senior leadership.
Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Skills & Experience
Experience leading Talent Acquisition or recruiting technology transformation programs.
Knowledge of the end-to-end Talent Acquisition lifecycle and associated technologies.
Experience with Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC), Workday Recruiting, SuccessFactors, Phenom, Eightfold, Avature, or related platforms.
Experience integrating recruiting platforms with HCM, analytics, identity, and collaboration solutions.
Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Familiarity with Agile delivery models, domain-driven design, and modern engineering practices. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities
• While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.