Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Remote, NY

Employment: Temp (6 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $80.62/hr.

Schedule: 40 hours/week

About the Opportunity:

• Documents, visualizes, and articulates overall technical health, current and target states of Enterprise Architecture in collaboration with domain leadership.
• Develops roadmaps with domain leadership to incorporate industry trend data for a targeted domain/function, and connect them with the broader Enterprise technology landscape, including alignment to industry Enterprise Architecture standards, building a pathway to achieve target state goals. 

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Technology domain leadership to support strategic decision making.
• Provide consultation services to domain leadership to improve technology delivery and operational efficiency.
• Research and communicate fact-based recommendations to Master Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process.
• Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate the current state, target state, and domain roadmap.
• Partner with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations, and support in preparation for S1/S2 leadership meetings and architectural peer group meetings.
• Research, understand, and existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains.
• Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals.
• Identify opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems from a broad enterprise perspective that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements for Agile teams and domain leadership to help promote the reuse of existing technical investments and capabilities.
• Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise-level architecture patterns.
• Participate in the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture guidance.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client's brand.
• Maintain the client's internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• This position will interface with senior leaders and will need excellent communication skills along with basic knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use.
• Defines the enterprise's conceptual and logical architecture for data and AI, including data domains, data exchange patterns, pipelines, model integration, and analytics ecosystems.
• Establishes high-level physical architecture principles governing how data is sourced, transformed, exchanged, and consumed across platforms.
• Drives standardization of data exchange patterns (e.g., event-driven, batch, streaming, API-based) to ensure consistency, scalability, and interoperability across the enterprise.
• Defines reconciliation and data integrity design principles, ensuring traceability, lineage, and alignment with regulatory requirements (e.g., BCBS239, model risk, data protection).
• Maintains deep knowledge of supporting data and AI technologies (e.g., data platforms, integration frameworks, model hosting, analytics tooling) to ensure architecture decisions are both forward-looking and implementable.
• Establishes enterprise patterns for how AI models consume and produce data in a governed and auditable manner.
• Aligns business use cases with scalable enterprise data and AI capabilities, ensuring governance, data quality, and regulatory compliance are embedded by design.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in developing and integrating applications using similar software architecture principles and patterns
• Minimum 11+ years of experience in software engineering, software delivery, and solution architecture
• Minimum 11+ years of experience in Data & AI
• Minimum 11+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Master's Degree in Business or Technical.
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking, technical design, and roadmap planning
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools.
• Executive Communications

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.