Soultion Architect

Role Description : the Senior Solution Architect, primarily

• Leads end-to-end technology solutions and high-level designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with bank's target architecture and standards for a business domain like Deposits, Cards, Lending, Channels, etc.
• Drives technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas deposits, cards, payments, operations, customer experience, analytics working with business and technology partners
• Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domains to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems.

Requires Skillset:

• Solution architect, who works with other architects including enterprise architects, leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank's target architecture and standards
  • Solution Architect with the following experience:
    • All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight,
    • Able to relate to end-to-end business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX
    • Data placement and data integration background
    • Strong application security/infrastructure, & deployment exposure
    • Enterprise-level Application Architecture
    • Experience with services management (web services, REST, Web API, ESB, message-based) development, integration and deployment
    • Previous Development experience (Cloud, DevOps, Agile)
  • Multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience
  • API design API Security, digital/mobile architecture experience
  • AI, Insights, Automation experience
• Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus
  • MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g., solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
  • Resolve issues as they arise
• Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options, solution architecture, high-level end-to-end design flow) collaborating with other technical leads
• Assists with and contributes to function area-specific target architecture, transition architectures, and technology roadmap
• Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against client target architecture and standards to solve business problems
• Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately
• Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the "C" level
• Banking solution experience is desirable
• Understands or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g., AWS) technologies

Addition Info:

• The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to 4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g., Channels, Sales/Marketing/CRM, Commercial Lending, Collections)
• 15 years of IT experience with minimum 6 years of hands-on solution architecture experience for enterprise-grade applications

Not Looking For:

• Hard-core developers for Java or .Net application coding
• DBA, Data modellers
• Project or Program Manager
• Business analyst, Data analyst, System Analyst or System Administrator