Lead Architect - Card Systems and Data Architecture
Wells Fargo1 day ago
Columbus, OH, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$119k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of complex, companywide architecture projects and strategic initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Define target-state architectures and technology strategies across card processing systems, applications, platforms, systems, data domains, and enterprise landscapes.
- Design scalable data architectures, distributed systems, API integrations, event-driven architectures, and midrange application solutions.
- Develop architecture roadmaps, transition strategies, architectural artifacts, integration patterns, data models, pipelines, and governance approaches.
- Assess technology, application, system, and data environments and make architecture, investment, governance, resiliency, and risk decisions.
- Communicate architecture strategy and drive alignment across business, product, engineering, infrastructure, operations, and architecture teams.
- Ensure supported applications and platforms meet enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, security, resiliency, and operational risk expectations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of architecture experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years designing enterprise-scale architectures for card processing, servicing, payments, customer engagement, or related financial services platforms.
- At least 5 years defining target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and transition strategies in complex enterprise environments.
- At least 5 years designing modern data architectures involving lakehouse, streaming, and event-driven platforms.
- At least 5 years building and optimizing data models and cloud-based data environments using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- At least 5 years developing data pipelines and integration processes, including ETL/ELT, orchestration, data governance, and data quality standards.
- At least 5 years designing distributed systems, API-based integrations, event-driven architectures, and midrange application solutions.
- Strong knowledge of card capabilities such as account management, transaction processing, authorizations, servicing, rewards, disputes, fraud, or related functions is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise architecture leadership, large-scale card modernization, card and credit servicing vendor experience, customer and data platform architecture, real-time personalization and decisioning, graph-based data models, resilient midrange solutions, and financial-services regulatory data and technology requirements.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-office work schedule with up to 10% travel.
- Health benefits, 401(k), paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness and accident insurance.
- Parental leave, critical caregiving leave, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, dependent-child scholarships, adoption reimbursement, and discounts and savings.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.