Solution Architect

POSITION: Solution Architect

Position Summary:

At Cambridge Savings Bank, our purpose is to have a positive impact on our customers, employees, and community's financial well-being. We are committed to exceeding expectations and having a strong commitment to diversity.The Solution Architect plays a critical role in designing, integrating, and evolving technology solutions that support the bank's business strategy, regulatory obligations, and customer experience. This role partners closely with business and operations leaders, technology teams, vendors, and risk/compliance stakeholders to translate business needs into secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions.

The ideal candidate brings broad technical expertise, hands-on architectural experience, and prior exposure to financial services environments, ideally within banking or other highly regulated industries.

Key Result Areas:

• Design end-to-end solution architectures that address functional business needs, customer experience goals, and operational requirements across the full technology stack.
• Translate requirements into solution designs that delivery teams can implement effectively, balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term sustainability.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions considering business fit, scalability, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Ensure solution designs align with applicable banking regulations, regulatory guidance, and data privacy requirements.
• Be a trusted technology advisor to business leaders, product owners, and delivery teams throughout the solution lifecycle.

* Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Information Security teams to incorporate appropriate controls, auditability, and data protection into solution designs teams to ensure cohesive and supportable solutions.

• Support vendor evaluations and risk-related reviews by contributing architectural input and documentation as needed.
• Lead or participate in architecture solution reviews and follow established architecture governance processes.
• Participate in scoping and delivery initiatives, identify and communicate risks or issues and propose mitigations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify solutions, reduce technical debt, and improve operational efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends relevant to banking and financial services.
• Perform additional duties as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including at least 5 years in a Solution Architect or similar role.
• Broad experience designing and integrating end-to-end solutions across multiple technology and financial services functional domains.
• Experience designing secure, highly available, and resilient systems in regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, data platforms, infrastructure, and security principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Create and maintain architecture design artifacts, solution documentation, and facilitate design reviews and approvals following the Architecture Review Board process.
• Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated industry.
• Exposure to core banking systems, digital banking platforms, and payments processing.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience with API management and integration platforms.
• Exposure to CRM platform capabilities
• Familiar with architecture and SDLC frameworks and processes

The above description covers the most significant major responsibilities but does not exclude other occasional responsibilities and accountabilities, the inclusion of which would be in conformity with the major purpose of this job.

Location: Hybrid/Waltham, MA Salary Range: $160,000 - $200,000

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Cambridge Savings Bank ranges from $160,000 - $200,000. Cambridge Saving Bank will determine actual compensation for the role based on factors including, but not limited to, the successful candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Cambridge Savings Bank offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for full-time roles including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, performance bonus opportunities, a 401(k) plan and match, flexible time off, and others.

Visa Sponsorship: Cambridge Savings Bank is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.

About Cambridge Savings Bank:

Cambridge Savings Bank is a full-service banking institution with over $7 billion in assets. As a mutual bank, CSB is committed to improving the quality of life of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve. One of the oldest and largest community banks in Massachusetts, Cambridge Savings Bank offers a full line of individual and business banking services across a robust Massachusetts-based branch network and through digital banking solutions for commercial, small business and consumer customers. To learn more about how we can meet your needs, visit us at cambridgesavings.com, or better yet, come meet us to help you make the most out of your banking relationship. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. NMLS # 543370.