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Senior Enterprise Architect

Citco

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Charlotte, NC · Posted March 23, 2026

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About the job

About Citco

Since the 1940s Citco has provided specialist financial services to alternative investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 14,000 employees in 45 countries we pioneer innovative solutions that meet our clients’ evolving needs, and deliver exceptional service.

Our continuous investment in learning means our people are among the best in the industry. And our corporate social responsibility programs provide meaningful and fulfilling work in the community.

A career at Citco isn’t just a job – it’s an opportunity to excel in an environment that genuinely supports your personal and professional development.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join Citco’s Architecture team. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic automation as key enabling capabilities. The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization.

Your Role

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy:

Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains

Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud-native solutions and establish architecture standards based on practical delivery experience.

Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives

Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture

Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap

Technical Leadership:

Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives

Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions

Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities

Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions

Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity

Standards & Governance:

Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions

Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams

Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards

Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions

Promote observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness by design

Solution Design & Review:

Review and approve AI solution designs

Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards

Identify opportunities for reusable components

Guide teams on technical implementation approaches

Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms

Emerging Technology & Platform Evolution:

Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities

Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms

Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions.

Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features

Guide integration with existing enterprise systems

About You:

You must have 10+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture.

Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting enterprise solutions on AWS, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, scalability, security, and operational considerations.

Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems

Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures

Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures

Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)

Experience owning and delivering complex enterprise applications end-to-end, including architecture, development, deployment, support, and continuous improvement

Experience designing highly available, scalable, and disaster recovery-enabled solutions.

Ability to explain solution architecture and technical decisions end to end

You should possess the following skills:

Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience

This is a hands-on architecture role. Candidates must have recent experience building and implementing enterprise applications and be comfortable reviewing code, solution designs, and technical implementations.

Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture

Strong software engineering background with hands-on development experience. Experience with Python, Node.js, Java, C#, or similar languages is acceptable, provided candidates can demonstrate ownership of application design and implementation.

Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)

Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations

Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures

Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns

Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture

Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders

Technical Expertise:

AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)

Strong understanding of production operations, observability, reliability, and operational support models

Kubernetes

Docker

Container orchestration platforms

Cloud-native deployment architectures

Development using Python and/or Node.js Large Language Models and GenAI technologies

RAG architectures and implementation patterns

Cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Enterprise integration patterns

Security and compliance frameworks

Data architecture and governance

Our Benefits

Your well-being is of paramount importance and central to our success here at Citco. Citco offers a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package to support your career success and personal needs. Your base salary will be determined by several factors such as the role, experience, skillset, market conditions, etc. Furthermore, qualifying positions can participate in an annual discretionary bonus pool based on company profitability and individual contributions. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, short and long-term disability benefits, a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health and wellness support, parental leave, and more. Additional details about our total rewards package will be shared during the hiring process.

At Citco, we take pride in fostering an inclusive culture by prioritizing the hiring of people from diverse backgrounds. Our culture is a source of pride and strength, fostering innovation, mutual respect, and collaboration. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If you require any accommodations to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please let your recruiter know.

As an equal opportunity employer, Citco adheres to making all employment and personnel decisions without discriminating based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, physical disability, mental disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, national or ethnic origin, or any other protected status. We believe that an inclusive workforce not only enriches our company but also drives us towards greater success.

Please note that this job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Our employees may perform other job-related duties as needed to meet the ongoing needs of our organization.