Application Architect

TekWissen LLC

Phoenix, AZ
6 days ago

Highlights

Citizens Bank is seeking an Application Architect to design scalable, secure application and integration architectures across our enterprise technology landscape, with strong emphasis on our Snowflake, Kafka, and AWS data ecosystem, and the ability to architect AI-enabled solutions including RAG pipelines and agentic workflows. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Phoenix, AZ
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$55
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Job Title: Application Architect
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

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Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end application architecture - design, integration patterns, deployment topology, scalability, resiliency, and security.
Define architecture blueprints, reference patterns, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for enterprise applications.
Design integration architecture across core banking systems, data platforms, and downstream applications (APIs, event streams, batch).
Architect data movement using Snowflake native components (Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Dynamic Tables) and dbt for transformations.
Design Kafka-based real-time and event-driven integration patterns.
Architect application and integration solutions on AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, MSK, IAM, API Gateway).
Architect RAG-based pipelines (retrieval strategy, vector store integration, LLM API integration) and design patterns for agentic workflows (tool-calling, orchestration, human-in-the-loop).
Lead architecture reviews, enforce standards, and mentor engineering teams on design best practices.
Maintain architecture documentation (system diagrams, data flows, sequence diagrams) and present designs to technical and business stakeholders.
Ensure solutions align with banking regulatory and security requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

10+ years in application/solution architecture, preferably in financial services.
Strong experience with Snowflake (Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks) and dbt.
Hands-on experience with Kafka integration architecture.
Strong working knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, MSK, IAM).
Experience architecting end-to-end data movement (batch and streaming).
Practical knowledge of RAG architecture (vector stores, embeddings, LLM integration) and agentic workflow design.
Strong grasp of enterprise integration patterns, microservices, and API design.
Ability to produce architecture artifacts (ADRs, diagrams) and communicate effectively with technical and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Banking/financial services experience, familiarity with SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA.
TOGAF, Snowflake (SnowPro Architect), or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Years of Experience:

12 Years of Experience

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.