Enterprise Architect Principal

Texas Capital is built to help businesses and their leaders. Our depth of knowledge and expertise allows us to bring the best of the big firms at a scale that works for our clients, with highly experienced bankers who truly invest in people’s success — today and tomorrow.

While we are rooted in core financial products, we are differentiated by our approach. Our bankers are seasoned financial experts who possess deep experience across a multitude of industries. Equally important, they bring commitment — investing the time and resources to understand our clients’ immediate needs, identify market opportunities and meet long-term objectives. At Texas Capital, we do more than build business success. We build long-lasting relationships.

Texas Capital provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, fertility and family building aids, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans with a generous 401K match, paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

Headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, Plano and San Antonio, Texas Capital was recently named Best Regional Bank in 2024 by Bankrate and was named to The Dallas Morning News’ Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex Top Workplaces 2023 and GoBankingRate’s 2023 list of Best Regional Banks. For more information about joining our team, please visit us at

An Enterprise Architect Principal focuses on designing complex enterprise ecosystems, solves high-level strategic issues and governs ongoing changes to the firm’s technology architecture. Enterprise Architects define the strategic directions to support various business capabilities, which then leads to an understanding of what technology changes are needed to support the target vision.

We are seeking qualified candidates with a passion for a long-term career in Banking, that have extraordinary levels of critical thinking, motivation, and initiative and aspire to deliver superior client experiences.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple Enterprise Governance processes and forums, including Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Architecture Steering Group (ASG)

Lead efforts to establish and/or improve standards and processes related to Enterprise Architecture governance and API Management

Lead efforts to identify and drive cost savings and standardization through application rationalization

Lead efforts to assess formal Standards, Process Maps, Controls, KRIs and KPIs within the EA Governance function and identify and implement changes that will strengthen risk management

Lead forums to teach Engineers and Architects and other roles about Enterprise Architecture governance processes and standards

Lead forums to teach Engineers and Architects and other roles about API Management processes and standards

Lead forums to teach Engineers and Architects about technologies, Design Patterns and Reference Architectures in use in the organization

Identify and resolve conflicts across Reference Architectures in order to gain alignment and approval with Executive Director level and Managing Director level roles

Communicate solution options and reach alignment and decisions with multiple stakeholders, including Managing Director and Executive Level roles, across technology and business teams

Review high level designs and technology architecture changes in Architecture Review Board (ARB) and other EA Governance forums

Contribute to design improvements as needed to adhere to Reference Architectures and Design Patterns.

Identify deviations to standards while working with technology teams to log IT exceptions, while helping teams determine resolution plans to address any deviations required to meet standards

Review Reference Architectures and contribute to efforts to improve Reference Architectures to meet business needs and the overall target architecture vision

Qualifications

Minimum 10 years in IT or technical services

Minimum 2 years in banking and financial domain

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Math, Computer Science, or MIS

Expert level knowledge and experience designing and implementing multiple systems applications data services that use modern technologies (Public Cloud, Microservices, App Integrations, APIs, Process Automation) at a large scale (1000+ internal users, 100K+ external users)

Expert level knowledge and experience designing and implementing multiple systems using all of these deployment models - SaaS / IaaS / PaaS / On Premise

Expert level knowledge of the practical application of technology systems engineering, including applying principles, techniques and technologies to the design and implementation of products

Experience establishing & leading multiple Enterprise Architecture governance forums, such as an Architecture Review Board (ARB), Architecture Steering Group (ASG)

Experience establishing & leading multiple forums to teach Engineers and Architects about a firm’s technology standards, Reference Architectures external technology trends

Experience identifying, driving and implementing improvements to standards, processes related to EA Governance and API Management, with a demonstrated benefit to strengthening risk management and/or improving speed to delivery

Experience leading efforts, across multiple domains, to fully establish architecture standards, including Design Patterns and Reference Architectures

Experience leading solution architecture and high-level design efforts for multiple domains and/or lead of 1 or more domain(s) that have a high complexity of software engineering and/or platform engineering

Experience researching new technologies and introducing technologies that led to demonstrated benefits in cost savings, operational efficiency, customer experience, risk reduction and/or system resiliency

Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level and experience communicating with business and technology leaders at these levels – Director, Managing Director, Executive Director

Ability to obtain, analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources

Effective time management skills and a proven track record of meeting various deadlines

Demonstrated experience designing, building and implementing systems with Agile delivery methods (Scrum, Kanban, DevOps)

Ability to manage competing priorities on concurrent large, complex projects, initiatives, and deliverables

Strong formal business writing skills - including proficiency of using MS Office products for written communications and presentations

The duties listed above are the essential functions, or fundamental duties within the job classification. The essential functions of individual positions within the classification may differ. Texas Capital Bank may assign reasonably related additional duties to individual employees consistent with standard departmental policy.Texas Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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