Chief Enterprise Architect at Fulton Bank – Remote, Pennsylvania

Requisition ID: 2026-23448
Category: Technology
# of Openings: 1
Position Type (Portal Searching): Full-Time
Remote
Lancaster
FLSA Status: Exempt

Value Proposition

Our values define us and our culture inspires us to change lives for the better. Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, and every success we experience begins with them. Together we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities. We champion a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion. We promote a digitally enabled work environment to continuously enhance the experience of our employees and customers.

Overview

This is a full-time career opportunity that can be fully remote or hybrid within the Fulton footprint (DE, MD, PA, NJ, VA). Requires travel to corporate headquarters in Lancaster, PA (approximately 10-12 times a year).

This role is responsible for establishing and leading an uplifted enterprise architecture capability that strengthens alignment between business strategy, regulatory obligations, and technology execution across the bank.

This Chief Enterprise Architect serves as the primary architectural authority for the enterprise, ensuring technology strategies and investments are coherent, resilient, and positioned to support long term growth. The role provides the architectural foundation needed to modernize platforms, reduce complexity and risk, and enable consistent, disciplined technology decision making across the organization.

Enterprise architecture under this role is positioned as a strategic enabler—supporting speed, innovation, and compliance while maintaining strong governance and architectural integrity.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the CIO to define and execute the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards consistent with the bank’s business strategy and risk appetite.
• Establish and maintain a future state enterprise architecture and multi year roadmap.
• Ensure architectural decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as the primary advisor on architecture strategy, modernization priorities, and long term technology direction.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into actionable architectural guidance across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Design and lead enterprise architecture governance processes.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance review forums to optimize and allow better solution decision making.
• Drive rationalization of legacy platforms, reduction of technical debt, and simplification of the technology landscape.
• Guide modernization efforts across core systems, digital platforms, data and analytics, cloud services, and integration capabilities to balance agility with enterprise control.
• Ensure enterprise architecture supports banking regulatory requirements, auditability, data governance, privacy, and cybersecurity standards.
• Embed resilience, availability, and disaster recovery expectations into architectural designs.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit partners to proactively manage architectural risk.
• Build, lead, and mature the enterprise architecture function, including enterprise, domain, and architects.
• Establish clear operating models, decision rights, and career paths within the architecture discipline.
• Foster a collaborative, consultative culture that emphasizes influence, accountability, and practical outcomes.
• Represent enterprise architecture across the enterprise.
• Communicate architectural concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences.
• Build strong partnerships with business and technology leaders to ensure architecture is viewed as a trusted enabling function.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: technical related fields. (Required)

Master's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: technical related fields. (Required)

Experience

12 or more years technology architecture with leadership at the enterprise level. (Required)

10 or more years supervisory. (Preferred)

10 or more years experience within banking or other highly regulated financial services environments. (Preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven ability to influence, lead change, and operate effectively at the executive level (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to align enterprise architecture with CIO led technology strategy (Required)
• Familiarity with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modern architectural approaches (Required)
• Strong communication skills (Required)

Sponsorship Statement

As a condition of employment, individuals must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for a work visa by Fulton Bank currently or in the future.

EEO Statement

Fulton Bank (Fulton) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons. Fulton will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, covered veteran status, or any other legally protected status.