Principal Architect

Company Overview:
Austin Capital Bank (ACB) is a rapidly growing community bank with an emphasis on technology. Located in Austin, Texas, ACB is a nationwide leader in consumer-friendly, responsible financial innovation.
Austin Capital Bank serves its customers and partners from a position of strength. We steward our bank with integrity and meticulous attention to detail, for our customers, partners, and stakeholders. We have been recognized in the Inc. 5000 list of the most rapidly growing privately held companies in the United States.
Austin Capital Bank’s organizational structure encompasses a digital bank within a community bank platform.
Our Core Values:
Austin Capital Bank’s Core Values are embodied in the concept of Two Complimentary Cultures, but One Team. This concept acknowledges that employees of the two segments of the company may differ in work and life experiences, and skill sets, but the following beliefs and behaviors are universal:

• Our Hygiene Factors: honesty with each other, confidentiality as it pertains to customer data and IP, and a high degree of skill and intelligence in the relevant field of authority and operation.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: an understanding that not everyone is the CEO, but everyone needs to have a CEO-mindset. In whatever task(s) we are performing, we think beyond fulfillment of the task(s), i.e., why, how, what’s next, is there a better way, etc.
• Excellence: we hire talented, highly skilled employees. We achieve the maximum level of excellence in product development, operational support, customer service, risk management and financial performance.
• Collaboration: we operate with a high degree of interdependence. We share collective goals and are accountable for our individual and collective performance. We understand that our life and work experiences likely differ. We respect and applaud those differences and achieve our goals as two complimentary cultures, but one team.

If you’re someone who is always ready to take initiative and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves, you’ll fit right in. We're big on humility here, cherishing honesty, and embracing emotional intelligence and self-awareness. At Austin Capital Bank, we're all about amplifying teamwork and basking in shared victories.
Duties & Responsibilities:
 

• Help define our technology architecture vision and strategy across a globally distributed engineering team to deliver best in class software solutions across our businesses.

• Promote the development of reusable frameworks to help accelerate the time to market for new business capabilities.
• Provide thought leadership to the enterprise on key industry and technology trends promotes the culture of innovation in teams towards building highly configurable, modular, composable, cloud-native distributed quality products.
• Help establish and govern code quality and code improvement initiatives.
• Help our development teams design and implement highly scalable, highly secure software systems for deployment on cloud infrastructures

• Help dev-ops teams define and implement highly scalable, robust, and secure systems on cloud infrastructure, meeting 99.99% uptime goals
• Performs necessary R&D and Evangelizes the tools, and methodologies that can be adopted during the development, testing and deployment phases of the products to improve overall execution efficiency.
• Mentor the high performing cross-cutting functional, technical experts who are part of different projects, products

Requirements & Skills:
General:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, advanced degree a plus.

• 15+ years of experience in a software development environment, preferably at a Fintech firm.

Leadership:

• Deep practitioner of Agile and Lean Start-Up methodologies.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement and continuous learning mindset.
• Demonstrated capability as a lifecycle problem solver (idea -> implementation).
• Strong engineering leader who can roll-up their sleeves
• Execution focused executive with a “get things done” attitude.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to senior executives and customers.
• Ability to cultivate a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion.

Management:

• Excellent knowledge of strategic planning and capability development with experience implementing technology strategy and roadmaps.

• Prior experience in a software organization that has experienced significant growth and transformation in a large enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience in leading software architecture and engineering teams; ability to coach and mentor architecture resources and effectively manage and shape team and individual behaviors.
• Expert written and oral presentation skills used to influence other leaders across the enterprise. 

Technical:

• Prior experience with evaluating emerging technologies and recommending potential partnerships that provide efficiencies and competitive advantage within the tech stack.
• Experience with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, solution designs, documentation, and other materials that contribute to department and organization effectiveness and efficiency.
• Deep knowledge of service-oriented and event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of and experience with building highly scalable and highly secure micro-services based, high-scalable, configurable, composable, modular cloud deployable apps.

• Hands-on experience in cloud engineering and cloud-native design.
• Well-versed in API development and management.
• Strong understanding of modern data modeling and data architecture practices.
• Experienced in container and container management.
• Experienced with industry standard programming languages, operating systems, application development frameworks, monitoring tools, and CI/CT/CD tools.
• Experience with both traditional RDMBS and No-SQL databases.
• Understanding of AI/ML and integrating data science models real-time into operational systems.
• Mobile systems design and implementation experience
• Experience with banking systems and lending systems a plus
• Skills with design of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics a plus

Attributes of Successful Candidate

• You have an acute attention to detail. You love and understand data, analysis, and optimization.
• You are a thinker and a DO-er. You have the combination of strategic thought, and the ability to roll up your sleeves and execute with excellence on that vision.
• You have a fire in your belly. You love to win and hate to lose.
• You want to improve the lives of our customers and other stakeholders while fast-tracking your career.
• You are an analytical thinker who can spot potential risks and come up with solutions.
• You are a clear communicator with a keen ability to articulate complex ideas.
• You have high integrity, strong character, and the ability to keep confidential information.
• You are dependable and reliable.