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Principal Architect

Technology

Texas

Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Architect for its Johnston, RI location.

Duties: Participates in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with your teammates. Collaborates and contributes insight to solution design ideation, ensuring both the success of the product and adherence to enterprise architecture principles. Designs, modifies, develops and implements software solutions. Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals. Infuses quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintains, distributed service-based framework to create and expand business and technical capabilities. Employs industry best practices to evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process. Serves as a peer-leader, encourages a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.

Requirements: Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, or related field, followed by seven (7) years of progressive experience in the role or in a related position. Full term of experience must include: Creating and publishing reusable custom frameworks to handle and execute internal business logic and support the development experience using Java, Spring Web, Kafka, Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud, and Postgres; Utilizing TypeScript for back-end and front-end development, including available Static Types, Object Oriented Programming, Compilation Environment, and Generics; Creating flexible and scalable back-end server systems using Java, multithreading, and streaming, asynchronous operations; Utilizing the Spring technology stack, including SpringBoot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Eureka Discovery Server, Zuul API Gateway, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring MVC, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, and JDBC to build resilient and scalable distributed micro services; Developing SOAP and REST web services using latest versions of Apache CXF, Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate frameworks; Utilizing shell scripting languages, including Python, Ruby, PHP, and Bash to create script applications, test scripts, network scripts, and infrastructure scripts; Utilizing API paradigms, including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and RPC; Utilizing databases paradigms, including Document (Mongodb, DynamoDB, FireBase), Relations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 11g, MariaDB, Aurora), Key-Value (Redis Cache, Memcached), and Wide Column (Cassandra); Integrating messaging and data stream systems, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Active MQ; Utilizing front-end frameworks, including Angular, React, and Vue, to create Single Page Applications; Utilizing Amazon Web Services, including EC2, AWS Lambda, RDS, IAM, Elastic Cache, S3, Glacier, EBS, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, and Route53 to create cloud native microservices on AWS infrastructure; Creating Terraform scripts to automate the creation of AWS cloud for easier reproduction of the AWS infrastructure across development, test and production environments; and Creating reliable and observable backend Java applications by leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.

May telecommute from any U.S. location.

Direct applicants only.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day. Employment decisions are based solely on experience, performance, and ability. Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer

Citizens is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and each of its respective affiliates.

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.

Benefits

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.

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