Data Platform Architect
Company: Regions Bank
Role summary
Data Platform Architect is a full-time role at Regions Bank in Birmingham, Alabama, United States (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-28. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Data Platform Architect
- Company
- Regions Bank
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-08-28
Regions Bank is looking for an experienced architect to help shape their data strategy and modernize their enterprise information infrastructure. It is a fantastic opportunity to influence large-scale systems at a stable financial institution while taking ownership of high-impact technical decisions.
Job description
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Job Description:
At Regions, the Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring Technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.
Primary Responsibilities
Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of enterprise architectures
Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
Validates designs produced by third party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines
Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap
Oversees data integration and configuration
Provides consultation on the most complex projects
Leads the work of others
This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.
This position is incentive eligible.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and ten (10) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture experience
Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
Experience with Agile methods
Certifications/Licensures
Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise
Skills and Competencies
An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
Knowledge of security design techniques
Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
The role of Enterprise Architect requires strong interpersonal skills and solid business acumen to effectively partner with stakeholders and influence direction across the organization.
Additional Primary Responsibilities:
Engage effectively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, communication, and influence to drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders
Applies strong business acumen to ensure architectural decisions to support organizational strategy, financial considerations, and expected business outcomes
Additional Skills and Competencies:
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships, influence without authority, and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated business acumen, including understanding of financial impacts, organizational strategy, and how architectural decisions support business objectives
This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future . Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. Regions