Senior Technical Lead, Enterprise Risk Architecture – McLean, VA

Senior Technical Lead, Architecture – Enterprise Risk Delivery

📍 Location: McLean, VA
🏢 Work Arrangement: Primarily Onsite (Up to 6 Remote Weeks Per Year with Manager Approval)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not Available
🚚 Relocation Assistance: Available for Exceptional Candidates
💰 Compensation: $210,000 – $230,000 Base Salary + Annual Bonus

Overview

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Senior Technical Lead, Architecture – Enterprise Risk Delivery to provide architectural leadership across a portfolio of enterprise risk technology initiatives.

This Director-level individual contributor role is responsible for designing and governing enterprise-scale technology solutions supporting Financial Risk, Non-Financial Risk, Financial Crimes, and Compliance functions. The successful candidate will lead solution architecture across complex business domains while partnering closely with engineering, data, product, security, and business stakeholders to drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including cloud transformation and GenAI adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Solution Architecture

• Design enterprise-scale, secure, and scalable solution architectures.

• Define architectural blueprints and implementation roadmaps.

• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices.

• Ensure long-term scalability, maintainability, and resilience of enterprise platforms.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across engineering, architecture, and product teams.

• Mentor engineering teams and influence technical direction.

• Conduct architecture reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions.

• Balance innovation, delivery speed, and technical debt.

Enterprise Risk Technology

• Deliver technology solutions supporting:

• Financial Risk

• Non-Financial Risk

• Financial Crimes

• Regulatory Compliance

• Enable enterprise data integration and risk analytics.

• Support regulatory compliance through modern technology solutions.

Cloud & Modern Engineering

• Architect cloud-native enterprise solutions.

• Drive modernization initiatives across distributed systems.

• Lead API-first, microservices-based architecture strategies.

• Support enterprise AI and Generative AI initiatives.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with business leaders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, and engineering organizations.

• Influence executive stakeholders through clear technical communication.

• Evaluate emerging technologies aligned with strategic business goals.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Master's Degree preferred.

Experience

✔ 10+ years of software engineering experience.

✔ 8+ years in architecture or senior technical leadership.

✔ 15+ years of overall technology experience preferred.

✔ Experience leading large-scale enterprise architecture initiatives.

✔ Experience within highly regulated industries such as:

• Financial Services

• Banking

• Mortgage

• Healthcare

Technical Expertise

Enterprise Architecture

• Solution Architecture

• Enterprise Architecture

• Microservices Architecture

• API Design & Integration

• Integration Patterns

• Micro Frontends

• Twelve-Factor Application Design

Cloud Platforms

• AWS (Preferred)

• Microsoft Azure

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Modern Technologies

• Kubernetes

• Kafka

• Java

• Python

• Angular

DevOps & Engineering

• CI/CD

• DevOps Practices

• Agile Methodologies

• Enterprise Platform Engineering

Artificial Intelligence

• Generative AI (GenAI)

• AI Solution Design

• Enterprise AI Integration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the mortgage or housing finance industry.

• Cloud Architecture certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent).

• Experience leading enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

• Background in enterprise data platforms and analytics.

• Experience supporting regulatory technology solutions.

Must-Have Skills

Architecture

• Enterprise Solution Architecture

• Cloud Architecture

• Microservices

• API Architecture

• Enterprise Integration

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (Preferred)

• Azure or GCP

• Kubernetes

• Kafka

Development

• Java

• Python

• Angular

Leadership

• Technical Leadership

• Enterprise Strategy

• Executive Communication

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Architecture Governance

Modern Engineering

• CI/CD

• DevOps

• Agile Delivery

• AI / GenAI

Screening Questions

1. Do you have at least 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience?

2. Do you have 8 or more years of experience in solution architecture or technical leadership?

3. Have you designed enterprise-scale cloud-native architectures using AWS, Azure, or GCP?

4. Do you have experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, and modern distributed systems?

5. Have you designed microservices, APIs, integration patterns, and cloud-native enterprise platforms?

6. Do you have experience implementing or architecting Generative AI or AI-enabled solutions?

7. Have you worked within highly regulated industries such as financial services, banking, mortgage, or healthcare?

8. Have you led enterprise transformation or modernization initiatives?

9. Do you hold any cloud architecture certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent)?

10. Are you comfortable working onsite in McLean, VA with limited remote flexibility?

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an experienced enterprise architect with deep technical expertise.

• Have successfully led architecture strategy across complex enterprise environments.

• Possess extensive cloud architecture experience, particularly with AWS.

• Demonstrate expertise in modern software engineering, APIs, and microservices.

• Have experience delivering technology within highly regulated industries.

• Be comfortable influencing executives and senior business stakeholders.

• Mentor engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architectural decision-making.

• Drive innovation through cloud modernization, DevOps, and AI technologies.

Candidate Snapshot

Requirement

Details

Experience

15+ Years Overall Technology Experience

Leadership

Director-Level Individual Contributor

Architecture

Enterprise Solution Architecture

Cloud

AWS (Preferred), Azure, GCP

Technologies

Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, Angular

Engineering

Microservices, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD

Industry

Financial Services / Highly Regulated Environment

AI

GenAI & Enterprise AI Solutions

Location

McLean, VA

Work Arrangement

Primarily Onsite (Up to 6 Remote Weeks Per Year)

Compensation

$210K – $230K + Bonus

Relocation

Available for Exceptional Candidates

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role?

• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture and cloud-native solution design.

• Strong leadership while operating as a hands-on technical contributor.

• Ability to translate complex business challenges into scalable technical solutions.

• Experience driving enterprise modernization and digital transformation.

• Strong understanding of risk, compliance, and secure architecture within regulated industries.

• Exceptional communication skills with both executive leadership and engineering teams.

• Passion for mentoring engineers, driving innovation, and adopting emerging technologies such as Generative AI.

Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic | Enterprise Middleware Engineering | Atlanta, GA

Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic

📍 Atlanta, Georgia (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite)
💰 $105,000 - $160,000 Base Salary + Annual Incentive Opportunity
🏠 Flexible Hybrid Schedule (Teams Select Their Onsite Days)
☁️ Enterprise Middleware & Platform Engineering
🚀 Modernization, Automation & Cloud Enablement Initiatives

Help Power the Critical Middleware Platforms Behind a Global Enterprise

A global organization supporting large-scale technology operations across multiple business units is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic to join its enterprise platform engineering team.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a middleware expert who enjoys designing, maintaining, automating, and modernizing mission-critical application platforms that support thousands of users and business-critical applications worldwide.

You'll play a key role in the evolution of a highly complex enterprise environment, helping drive reliability, security, performance, automation, and modernization initiatives across a diverse application hosting landscape.

If you're passionate about enterprise infrastructure, middleware technologies, automation, and cloud transformation, this role offers significant ownership, technical challenge, and long-term career growth.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This isn't a traditional support role.

You'll be a senior member of a geographically dispersed engineering team responsible for some of the organization's most critical application platforms. You'll work closely with architects, developers, security teams, cloud engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable environments.

This role offers the opportunity to influence platform strategy, drive modernization efforts, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the future of enterprise middleware services.

Highlights include:

• Ownership of mission-critical WebSphere and WebLogic environments

• Significant involvement in automation and platform modernization initiatives

• Exposure to cloud hosting and containerized workloads

• Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering standards

• Work within a highly collaborative enterprise technology environment

• Mentor and guide junior engineering talent

• Strong career progression opportunities within a large-scale technology organization

What You'll Be Doing

Enterprise Middleware Administration

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize enterprise application hosting platforms

• Administer complex IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic environments

• Configure and manage clustered middleware environments

• Implement secure, highly available, and scalable platform solutions

• Perform platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization activities

• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance across production environments

Platform Engineering & Automation

• Drive automation initiatives across platform deployment and administration activities

• Develop and maintain scripts, tooling, and automation frameworks

• Support CI/CD pipeline integration and deployment automation

• Improve operational efficiency through infrastructure and platform automation

• Implement repeatable engineering standards and best practices

Performance Optimization & Reliability

• Monitor and optimize middleware platform performance

• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning activities

• Troubleshoot complex platform, application, and infrastructure issues

• Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions

• Support business-critical applications with a focus on uptime and stability

Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practices across middleware environments

• Manage SSL/TLS certificates and secure communications

• Support authentication and authorization solutions including LDAP and SSO

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and policies

• Partner with security teams on platform hardening initiatives

Cloud & Containerization Initiatives

• Support modernization efforts involving cloud-hosted middleware platforms

• Participate in containerization initiatives utilizing Docker and Kubernetes

• Assist with migration and transformation projects

• Help establish best practices for modern application hosting environments

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Partner with developers, architects, product teams, and infrastructure teams

• Support complex technical initiatives from design through implementation

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

• Participate in technical reviews and knowledge-sharing activities

• Create and maintain platform documentation, standards, and procedures

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• 5+ years of enterprise platform engineering, middleware administration, or infrastructure engineering experience

• Deep expertise in IBM WebSphere and/or Oracle WebLogic administration

• Experience managing highly available and clustered environments

• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning capabilities

• Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications

• Ability to work independently while collaborating across distributed teams

Required Technical Expertise

Middleware Platforms

• IBM WebSphere Application Server

• Oracle WebLogic Server

• Middleware clustering and high availability

• Performance tuning and optimization

• Secure configuration and administration

Web Hosting & Load Balancing

Strong experience with:

• Apache

• IIS

• IBM HTTP Server

• Oracle HTTP Server

• NGINX

• Reverse proxy architectures

• Load balancing technologies

Automation & Scripting

Hands-on experience with:

• wsadmin

• WLST

• Python

• Shell scripting

• CI/CD integration

• Infrastructure automation

Highly Preferred Experience

Security & Authentication

• SSL/TLS implementation and management

• LDAP integration

• Single Sign-On (SSO)

• Enterprise security frameworks

• Compliance and governance standards

Monitoring & Observability

Experience with tools such as:

• AppDynamics

• Datadog

• Enterprise monitoring platforms

• Performance analytics and diagnostics

Cloud & Container Technologies

Experience with:

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Cloud-hosted middleware workloads

• Platform modernization initiatives

• Hybrid cloud environments

Ideal Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will thrive in complex enterprise environments and enjoy taking ownership of critical platform services.

You'll be someone who:

• Takes pride in engineering reliable, scalable solutions

• Enjoys solving complex technical problems

• Communicates effectively with both technical and business stakeholders

• Can balance operational support with long-term strategic improvements

• Is comfortable mentoring others and sharing knowledge

• Works effectively across geographically distributed teams

This role is particularly well suited to engineers who enjoy both traditional enterprise middleware technologies and modern cloud-native platform engineering.

Compensation & Benefits

💰 Base Salary: $105,000 - $160,000

Additional rewards include:

• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Retirement savings programs

• Paid time off and holiday benefits

• Professional development and certification support

• Exposure to large-scale enterprise modernization initiatives

• Flexible hybrid work environment

• Long-term career growth opportunities

Work Authorization Requirements

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis.

This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship or transfer.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to become a key contributor within a highly sophisticated enterprise technology environment where your expertise will directly influence platform reliability, security, automation, and modernization efforts.

You'll work alongside talented engineers, support business-critical systems, and play a central role in driving the future of enterprise middleware and platform engineering.

If you're a WebSphere or WebLogic expert looking for a role that combines technical depth, platform ownership, modernization initiatives, and long-term career growth, we'd love to hear from you.

ServiceNow Lead / Architect – CSM & Financial Services Operations | Remote U.S.

ServiceNow Lead / Architect – Financial Services Operations (FSO)

📍 Location: Fully Remote (U.S. – preference for NY)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
💰 Base Salary: $150,000 – $170,000
🎯 Bonus Eligible: Yes
🌎 Visa Sponsorship: Available
✈️ Travel: Occasional (as required)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced ServiceNow Lead / Architect with deep expertise in Customer Service Management (CSM) and Financial Services Operations (FSO).

This role will serve as the technical owner across client implementations — leading architecture, mentoring developers, and driving delivery excellence across enterprise ServiceNow programs within commercial banking and financial services environments.

You will operate at the intersection of solution architecture, technical leadership, and client engagement, ensuring high-quality delivery while scaling best practices across the ServiceNow ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Technical Leadership

• Act as technical owner for ServiceNow engagements

• Lead and mentor a team of developers

• Assign development tasks and provide architectural guidance

• Review sprint-level design and code for quality assurance

🔹 Architecture & Solution Design

• Lead requirements discovery sessions with stakeholders

• Design and implement complex ServiceNow solutions

• Architect workflows, case management, and automation across:

• CSM

• Financial Services Operations (FSO)

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs

• Lead greenfield implementations and enterprise rollouts

🔹 Development & Platform Expertise

• Build and customize:

• Complex workflows and workflow activities

• Business Rules, Client Scripts, UI Policies, UI Actions

• Script Includes, ACLs, Service Portal components

• Integrate third-party systems using:

• REST

• SOAP

• Scripted APIs

• Flow Designer / Integration Hub

• Manage deployments via Update Sets

• Oversee instance cloning, upgrades, and environment strategy

🔹 Governance & Platform Health

• Monitor ServiceNow health, usage, and compliance

• Lead production support and issue resolution

• Coordinate production and sub-production releases

• Support regression testing and upgrade remediation

• Maintain detailed technical documentation

🔹 Practice & Knowledge Leadership

• Participate in blueprinting workshops

• Assist in project estimation

• Lead knowledge transfer sessions

• Contribute to Center of Excellence (COE) standards

• Support continuous improvement of development best practices

• Lead internal training workshops

Required Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of overall IT experience

• Strong experience in ServiceNow Development

• Extensive experience in:

• Customer Service Management (CSM)

• Financial Services Operations (FSO)

• Proven experience leading client-facing technical projects

• Strong hands-on scripting experience (JavaScript within ServiceNow)

• Experience deploying code across lower and production environments

• Experience with integrations and API development

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Certifications (Required)

• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA)

• At least one mainline Implementer Certification (FSO / CSM / HRSD / ITSM / GRC)

• Strong preference for Financial Services Operations (FSO) Professional Certification

Highly Preferred Experience

• Case management implementations supporting:

• Dispute Management

• Fraud Claims Processing

• Client Onboarding

• Loan Operations

• Card Operations

• Treasury Operations

• Greenfield implementation of a ServiceNow module

• Experience coordinating platform upgrades and cloning

• Strong understanding of ServiceNow best practices

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Architect-level thinker with hands-on capability

• Strong leadership presence in client-facing environments

• Experience operating in financial services or commercial banking

• Structured, detail-oriented, and delivery-focused

• Comfortable leading distributed teams in agile environments

• Proactive, self-motivated, and solution-oriented

Skill Matrix Required for Submission

Candidates must provide:

1. Total years of ServiceNow development experience

2. Total years of CSM experience

3. Total years of FSO experience

4. Total years operating in an Architect capacity

Compensation & Benefits

• 💰 Base Salary: $150,000 – $170,000

• Bonus eligible

• Full benefits package

• Remote flexibility

• Long-term career growth within enterprise-scale transformation programs

ServiceNow Architect | Chandler, AZ (Hybrid) | $150K–$180K + Full Benefits

ServiceNow Architect

📍 Location: Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid – 3 days in-office weekly) (open to being based in Arizona State)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Senior-Level
💲 Salary Range: $150,000 – $180,000 USD
🛑 Visa Sponsorship: Not Available
🚚 Relocation Package: Not Included
✈️ Travel: Not Required

Shape the Future of Enterprise IT with ServiceNow

Are you a senior-level ServiceNow professional who thrives on creating powerful, scalable, and secure platform solutions? This is your opportunity to architect and lead end-to-end ServiceNow implementations for a high-impact, forward-looking team. Based in Chandler, AZ, this in-office role (3x per week) is your chance to work closely with top-tier technical leadership to modernize IT and business processes across a growing enterprise.

What You’ll Do

• Architect & Lead: Drive the design and deployment of complex ServiceNow solutions across ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, HRSD, HAM, SAM, and CRM modules.

• Strategic Influence: Collaborate with business and tech stakeholders to shape the ServiceNow roadmap.

• Integration Mastery: Design seamless integrations with systems like Active Directory, LDAP, Salesforce, AWS, Azure, and custom APIs.

• Platform Optimization: Continuously evaluate performance, usability, and cost-efficiency while ensuring compliance and governance.

• Mentorship: Guide development teams in adopting ServiceNow best practices, coding standards, and scalable design.

• Documentation & Delivery: Produce architecture diagrams, implementation guides, and technical documentation for smooth handoffs and operations.

What You Bring

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with ServiceNow, with 3+ years in an architect or lead role

• Expertise in one or more modules: ITOM, ITSM, HRSD, HAM, SAM, CSM, CRM

• Strong scripting skills in JavaScript, Glide API, Business Rules, etc.

• Deep knowledge of platform capabilities, CSDM, CMDB structure, and ServiceNow governance

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and their integration into ServiceNow

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for ServiceNow deployments

• Proven ability to automate workflows and drive efficiency using modern frameworks

• Understanding of ITIL frameworks (especially Incident, Problem, Change, and Config Management)

• Certifications preferred: CAD, CSA, or CTA

Nice to Have

• Background in healthcare or public sector (SLED) environments

• Familiarity with ServiceNow features like Virtual Agent, Flow Designer, Predictive Intelligence

• Experience with large-scale upgrade cycles and patching strategy

Why This Role?

• 💰 Competitive Pay – $150K–$180K base salary

• 🏥 Robust Benefits – Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401(k)

• 📈 Career Growth – High visibility, direct influence on platform evolution, and room for advancement

• 🧠 Challenging Projects – Work on high-impact, enterprise-level ServiceNow transformations

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Collaborative Culture – Join a talented, motivated, and supportive technology team

• 🏡 Flexible Hybrid Work – Enjoy the best of both worlds with structured in-office collaboration and remote flexibility

Interview Process

1. Phone Screen with Recruiter

2. Interview with Technology Director

3. Technical Panel Interview

4. Final Interview with HR

Other Info

• Location: On-site (Chandler, AZ) 3 days per week

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (no H1B, STEM, OPT support)

• Role is open for ongoing recruitment – top-tier talent always welcome

🔍 Interested? Prepare to showcase examples of recent ServiceNow implementations, highlight your architectural contributions, and share your vision for optimizing enterprise IT through automation and intelligent design.