Chief Architect (Infrastructure & Enterprise Architecture)

Join Happen Bank as the Chief Architect, where you'll define and lead the bank's enterprise architecture strategy, technical standards, and infrastructure architecture. This hands-on leadership role involves designing cloud and platform infrastructure, reviewing critical technical decisions, and developing reference architectures. You'll lead a federated Architecture Guild, establish clear standards and design governance, and ensure architecture decisions balance delivery speed, technical quality, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Definir y liderar la estrategia de arquitectura empresarial del banco, estableciendo estándares técnicos y arquitectura de infraestructura.
• Dirigir un equipo de arquitectura compartida y establecer estándares claros, gobernanza de diseño y alineación en toda la organización.
• Colaborar con equipos de ingeniería, seguridad, riesgo y relaciones regulatorias para garantizar que las decisiones de arquitectura equilibren la velocidad de entrega, la calidad técnica y los requisitos regulatorios.
• Proven ability to establish enterprise architecture standards, lead complex design decisions, and balance technical rigor, regulatory requirements, and delivery speed
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence Engineering leaders, architects, Security, Risk, and Regulatory Relations partners
• You build functions that evolve, including how AI can improve architectural design, engineering practices, and technical decision-making. You maintain a high standard for responsible use, data governance, security, and human oversight while helping teams adopt new capabilities thoughtfully

Requirements

• You take ownership of complex technical decisions, apply sound judgment when navigating ambiguity, and establish clear standards that enable teams to operate independently while maintaining architectural consistency
• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Deep, current, hands-on expertise in infrastructure architecture, including public cloud environments (AWS preferred), networking, identity, containers and orchestration, infrastructure as code, resilience, and disaster recovery
• Experience directly managing and developing senior technical individual contributors
• Experience delivering technology in a regulated financial services environment, including familiarity with OCC, FFIEC, BSA/AML, or equivalent regulatory expectations and their implications for architecture, examinations, and audits
• 13+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technology roles, including 5+ years in a principal, chief, or head-of-architecture position within an organization of comparable complexity
• Demonstrated success providing technical leadership to architects across organizational boundaries, including influencing teams and individuals without direct reporting relationships
• Strong working knowledge of data architecture, data modeling, integration patterns, and modern data platforms, with the technical judgment to review and challenge complex designs
• Experience developing architecture patterns that support AI-native workloads and applying AI within enterprise architecture
• Experience leading architecture within a federated, guild, or chapter operating model
• Experience defining architecture standards that have successfully supported regulatory examinations
• Experience operating across both large, established institutions and high-velocity product engineering environments

Pay

USD 260,000 - 290,000