First Horizon National Corporation
Enterprise Architect
First Horizon National Corporation, Raleigh, NC
Location: On site at Memphis, TN. Maryville, TN. Birmingham, AL, Lafayette, LA. New Orleans, LA. Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC.
Job Summary:
The Enterprise Architect delivers as a thought leader and visionary. You'll find yourself delivering standards, patterns, and designs to First Horizon's technology organization, as well as diligent engagement with stakeholders and business leaders! Your scope of influence will include but is not limited to stability, observability, portability, SDLC management, producing strategic roadmaps and solution designs that align to business strategies. You will join the frontline in ensuring we can meet the bank's business needs while producing a modern, digital stack.
Primary Responsibilities
Requirements
Certifications/Licensures
Skills And Competencies
About UsFirst Horizon is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. With $81.7 billion in assets as of December 31, 2023, we serve clients through a team of approximately ~7,300 associates and ~418 banking centers throughout the southeastern United States. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank.
Benefit Highlights
• Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision
• HSA with company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mentor program
• 401(k) with 6% match
• More -- FirstHorizon.com/First-Horizon-National-Corporation/Careers/Our-Benefits
Corporate Diversity Commitment:
We remain committed to creating a more equitable society, and that starts with our associates, our clients, and the communities we serve. We do this by elevating equity, providing capital and counsel, and committing to excellence in everything we do.
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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Job Summary:
The Enterprise Architect delivers as a thought leader and visionary. You'll find yourself delivering standards, patterns, and designs to First Horizon's technology organization, as well as diligent engagement with stakeholders and business leaders! Your scope of influence will include but is not limited to stability, observability, portability, SDLC management, producing strategic roadmaps and solution designs that align to business strategies. You will join the frontline in ensuring we can meet the bank's business needs while producing a modern, digital stack.
Primary Responsibilities
- Manage solution design from conception to delivery
- Collaboratively manage a playbook of patterns, standards, and principles that guide the Architecture COP (Center of Practice) and its operations
- Collaboratively manage a catalog of business applications, capabilities, and other attributes and designations as benefit a holistic, enriched purview of the Enterprise's technology landscape for executive leadership
- Guide and mentor other architects
- Primarily responsible for producing architecture documentation for business applications as assigned and as projects and programs of work dictate
- Partners with line of business, delivery teams, Solution Architects and SMEs to produce and refine technical requirements
- Designs both the components and interactions of solution architectures that will deliver intended business outcomes
- Collaborates with architects in other domains (Data, Security, Infra, Cloud, DevOps) to produce consensus and governance
- Leads solution design workshops and emerging technology POC workshops
- Validates 3rd Party/Vendor Solutions and help author RFx content
- Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company's business goals and objectives
- Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
- Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
- Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
- Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines
- Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap
- Provides consultation on complex projects
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field
- (Preferred) Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field
- (5+) years of solutions architecture experience
- (10+) years of application development or software engineering experience
- Experience with n-tier application architecture and cloud native solution architecture
- Experience with technical documentation like interaction diagrams, process diagrams, network topologies and other architectural content
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall methods
- Experience with TOGAF or BIAN Frameworks
Certifications/Licensures
- (Preferred) AWS Certified Solution Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Skills And Competencies
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
- Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
- Hands-on-the-keyboard depth of knowledge in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Python, Typescript, etc.
- Knowledge of application security design principles and techniques
- Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
- Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
- Understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure) services and platforms like API Gateways, Serverless, Virtual Private Networks, Elastic RDBMS, NoSQL, Key Managers, Load Balancers, Blob Stores, Indexing Services, etc.
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Experience with Queueing/Streaming platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
About UsFirst Horizon is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. With $81.7 billion in assets as of December 31, 2023, we serve clients through a team of approximately ~7,300 associates and ~418 banking centers throughout the southeastern United States. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank.
Benefit Highlights
• Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision
• HSA with company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mentor program
• 401(k) with 6% match
• More -- FirstHorizon.com/First-Horizon-National-Corporation/Careers/Our-Benefits
Corporate Diversity Commitment:
We remain committed to creating a more equitable society, and that starts with our associates, our clients, and the communities we serve. We do this by elevating equity, providing capital and counsel, and committing to excellence in everything we do.
Follow UsFacebook
X formerly Twitter
YouTube
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)