Solutions Architect

Description

Solutions Architect

Reports To : Director, Product Development & Operations

BAI and RMA have come together as ProSight Financial Association, a leading industry organization whose purpose is to empower financial services leaders to strengthen and advance our industry. The strategic combination brings together RMA's expertise in serving the commercial banking and risk management functions and BAI's knowledge in serving the retail banking and regulatory compliance functions. It's a complementary union of two non-profit organizations that have always had their members' and customers' best interests in mind. Our industry-leading offerings include : peer sharing events, thought leadership, learning and development, and decision support solutions. Our work creates positive ripple effects throughout financial services organizations and ultimately helps consumers, businesses and communities thrive.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Solutions Architect to help us transform our class-leading regulatory compliance and online training platforms using cutting-edge cloud-native concepts on the Microsoft Azure Platform. You will lead deep technical architecture discussions with software engineers, IT, product managers, and external consultants to drive our platforms forward and enable ProSight's product and growth strategies.

The Solutions Architect must have a broad understanding of cloud architecture, front-end web development, application-tier programming, object-oriented and microservice programming practices, and database design and structure. This position will contribute to designing the architecture, building, improving, and maintaining the company's internal systems and external customer-facing solutions.

Responsibilities :

• Provide technical leadership and design application architecture (including microservices, user interfaces, middleware, and infrastructure) in alignment with business requirements and scalability needs.
• Bridge current (monolithic) solution architecture to a future state (microservices) architecture that expands business capabilities, supports new products, minimizes system outages, and accelerates speed to market with new products and features.
• Manage cross-cutting architectural concerns, including microservice web, protocols, synchronous vs. asynchronous, authentications pattern / libraries, and monitoring pattern / libraries.
• Design integrations with a wide variety of applications (e.g., Datadog, Azure B2C) to establish patterns and recommend libraries.
• Coordinate with other engineers to build architectural scaffolding / prototypes as part of larger strategic initiatives.
• Drive innovation in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders in alignment with the organization's needs, overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design and implement architectures and solutions using PaaS, IaaS, DevOps, and microservices.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussion and apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap.
• Ensure all solutions meet high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights and collaborate and share with the product, business, design, and technical stakeholders.
• Lead efforts to assess new technologies, products, and tools that can help improve business capabilities, customer value, and / or developer efficiency, and recommend specific solutions.
• Establish, document, and ensure compliance with architecture and software development best practices.
• Communicate with all levels and functional areas of the BAI organization.
• Proactively identify opportunities to utilize current or innovative technical solutions to improve business processes and / or products that provide additional revenue, cost savings or efficiency gains.
• Write and maintain documentation as needed to support knowledge sharing of existing and future technologies.

Requirements :

ProSight offers an outstanding benefit package including comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off programs, BAI Workflex which includes a hybrid work model and bonus potential with the ability to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

ProSight will not sponsor applicants for work visas and as a precondition of employment, you must be authorized to work in the United States permanently.

To learn more about our company please visit www.prosightfa.org , www.bai.org , and www.rmahq.org