Principal Enterprise Architect candidate in San Francisco, California, United States

Summary

Experience leading the Architectural Review Board, including establishing its charter, running its program, creating its policies/procedures, and managing its workflow processes between inter-departments

Extensive experience in building internal and external relationships, while influencing and persuading IT stakeholders through strategic short term and long term roadmaps

Experience leading and managing end to end implementation of enterprise, large scale initiatives across multi-departmental teams involving data governance, cybersecurity, data privacy, risk, and compliance

History of driving technical change in a traditional, risk averse environment while ensuring the bank culture remains a driving force

Knowledge of banking regulatory and compliance requirements, including LFI architectural requirements (FFIEC, etc.), while requiring to adjudicate between various teams and groups to ensure specific needs and requirements are managed properly

Experience leading a community of practice containing architects and engineers in a dotted line reporting structure towards, helping to solve challenging problems, while evolving the core foundations of maturing, growing, and instilling enterprise architecture best practices

Understand the politics and culture required in working closely with the business in understanding their goals, objectives, and roadmaps, while helping them comprehend, align, and integrate with ITs strategies to achieve synergies on business and technology outcomes

Experience working within a digital transformative environment, leading a five member architectural pod while actively practicing agile methodologies and collaborating closely with cross matrixed team members in geographically disparate locations

Collaborated with the Chief Architect in establishing (creating team, authorizing the charter, documenting the policy) the company's first Open-Source Council to review open-source software usage at the organization

Represent the infrastructure organization in the technology risk review governance of all third-party vendors. Developed a process to review vendor documents (SIG, SOC2, ISO, questionnaires, etc.) and provide diligence assessments resulting in a control effectiveness risk rating for each vendor, identifying its overall risk footprint to the company

Led the strategy towards establishing the security and governance framework for the banks first public IaaS implementation in AWS. Collaborated with the Cloud Center of Excellence to develop support processes, change management, RACI support structures, and guardrails for the application

Created a methodology towards onboarding SaaS applications, including a framework towards assessing risk, incorporating various domain specifications to review for appropriate risk

Acted as the point in partnering with internal audit to develop solutions to MRA and MRIAS by closely working with stakeholders towards implementing remediations. Developed action plans in accordance with the risks identified, and organized teams towards identifying a solution to the findings

Created the company's first BYOD policy. Worked closely with Legal, HR, Operations, and Cybersecurity in authoring the company's BYOD strategy. Negotiated executive support from the CTO to manifest the strategy

Authored the company's first Cloud Computing Strategy, encompassing the areas where the organization should target for cloud technologies. Collaborated with over thirty individuals across various departments to ensure holistic requirements and vision were shared. The core aspect of the strategy highlighted the top fifty applications for the organization and identified the characteristics (health assessment) of each that would make them ideal or non-ideal candidates to migrate to the cloud

Architected and designed an end-to-end MVP implementation of an automated server deployment and an early pilot of infrastructure automation utilizing Cisco CIAC and Newscale technologies on top of Cisco UCS blades and Hitachi storage. This was the companys first exposure to automation in a private cloud style implementation

Expectations

Looking for a position that is both challenging and can leverage the skills that I offer, in order to make a profound impact. Interested in working as a team, collaborating with others to continuously learn, grow and mature. Looking forward to working with an organization that empowers its employees and believes its workforce is one of the key to its success.