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R26\_0000000023If you’re looking for a meaningful career, you’ll find it here at Webster. Founded in 1935, our focus has always been to put people first--doing whatever we can to help individuals, families, businesses and our colleagues achieve their financial goals. As a leading commercial bank, we remain passionate about serving our clients and supporting our communities. Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Agility, Respect, Excellence are Webster’s values, these set us apart as a bank and as an employer.Come join our team where you can expand your career potential, benefit from our robust development opportunities, and enjoy meaningful work!The Director, Solution Architect is a strategic, hands-on leader who shapes the target architecture and accelerates delivery for Corporate IT platforms—Oracle Fusion Cloud (ERP & EPM), ServiceNow, Workday, Empyrean, and Finance Analytics. You will own end to end solution architecture across these domains, align investments to business outcomes, and rationalize the portfolio to reduce cost, risk, and complexity. This is an individual contributor role with broad influence across senior stakeholders, product owners, and engineering leaders—setting the architecture vision, standards, patterns, and roadmaps and ensuring execution quality.**Key Responsibilities****Architecture Strategy & Leadership*** Translate business strategy into actionable, **capability‑driven** target architectures for HR, Finance, and Corporate Functions.* Produce **portfolio roadmaps**, investment cases, and modernization paths (e.g., Oracle EBS to **Oracle Fusion Cloud**, on‑prem reporting to **EPM** and **Finance Analytics**, HR data unification across **Workday** and **Empyrean**).* Partner with Enterprise Architecture to set **principles, guidelines, standards**, and solution patterns; chair or co-chair **Architecture Review Boards** for Corporate IT.**Solution Design & Delivery*** Lead solution architecture for high-impact initiatives; ensure designs meet **functional** and **non‑functional** requirements (security, availability, performance, DR, cost).* Provide architectural oversight across SDLC/SAFe—**from inception to production**—including security reviews, threat models, NFR validation, and operational readiness.* Guide product owners, designers, and engineers; remove ambiguity; **accelerate decisions** on platform choices and integration patterns.**Integration, Data, and Analytics*** Define **canonical data models**, **data contracts**, and **API catalogs**; enforce **API-first** and **event streaming** (e.g., Kafka) where appropriate.* Architect **high-volume, secure** data movement between complex systems (Workday

Oracle ERP/EPM, ServiceNow

HR/Finance, Empyrean

HRIS/Payroll).* Partner with Finance Analytics/EDW teams to enable **trusted financial reporting** and **planning** (e.g., EPM/DFCS/AH alignment), with clear **data lineage** and **governance**.**Platform Operations, Security & Compliance*** Embed **zero-trust** and **least-privilege** access patterns; align IAM across SaaS platforms and cloud providers.* Define **observability** standards (logging, metrics, tracing), **SLOs/SLAs**, and **capacity planning**; drive **cost optimization** and **FinOps** accountability.* Ensure compliance controls are **designed-in**—including **SOX** controls for financial processes and **GLBA/FFIEC/NIST** controls for data protection.**Qualifications****Required*** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.* **10+ years** in Solution/Application Architecture with **5+ years** in HR/Finance/Corporate IT domains.* Deep expertise architecting on **Oracle Fusion Cloud (ERP & EPM)**, **Workday**, **ServiceNow**, and **SaaS integrations** (REST/GraphQL, webhooks, iPaaS).* Cloud architecture experience on **AWS, Azure, or GCP** (designing secure, scalable, cost‑efficient solutions).* Strong knowledge of **SDLC** and **SAFe**/**Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)**; proven ability to embed architecture standards in delivery pipelines.* Demonstrated success leading **portfolio rationalization**, **reference architectures**, and **governance** without direct people management.**Preferred*** Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.* Financial Services/Banking domain experience (Core Banking exposure is a plus).* Experience with **Finance Analytics** platforms and data integration into **EPM/ERP** (e.g., Accounting Hub/DFCS), and operational reporting.* Hands-on experience with **event-driven architectures**, **streaming**, and **API management** (rate limiting, throttling, SLAs).* Familiarity with **ITIL/COBIT**, **NIST CSF**, **SOX/GLBA/PCI** controls.**Certifications (Preferred)*** **TOGAF** or equivalent architecture certification.* Cloud Architect: **AWS/Azure/GCP**.* **Oracle Cloud ERP/EPM**, **Workday Pro**, **ServiceNow** (CSA/CAD/Architect).The estimated salary range for this position is $160,000.00 to $175,000.00. Actual salary may vary up or down depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive compensation.#LI-Hybrid#LI-FO1Webster Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries (“Webster”) are equal opportunity employers that are committed to sustaining an inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr