Solutions Architect

Title: Solutions Architect

Duration: 12 months (possible extension or conversion)

Location: Rutherford, NJ (Hybrid – 2/3 Days a week)

All interviews will be conducted onsite in-person

The Senior Solutions Architect candidate requires a strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems. The role will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders such as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM), Retail Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Internal Audit, O&T Business Risk Control and Chief Administrative Office.

Responsibilities:

The candidate is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate.

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape
• Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on requirements.
• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state
• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis
• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams
• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.

Qualification

• 10 years of overall relevant banking, financial services experience
• At least 10 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills
• Banking/Financial/Payment experience is a plus
• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions
• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures
• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles
• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate
• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams
• Passion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve products
• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits
• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels
• Consistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communication
• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plus
• Demonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teams
• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations
• Ability to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetings

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree/MBA