What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at TekJobs?
Required Skills: Web Banking, Mobile Banking architect, React Native, iOS
Job Description
Job Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Memphis, TN; Birmingham, AL; New Orleans, LA; Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC; or Dallas, TX – Onsite
Mode: Contract on W2 (Only)
Summary
The Banking Application Architect delivers as a hands-on practitioner. You’ll find yourself delivering standards, patterns, and designs to technology organization, as well as diligent engagement with those teams of developers implementing them! Your scope of influence will include but is not limited to resiliency, observability, portability, SDLC management, producing technical requirements and solution designs that align to business requirements. You will join the frontline in ensuring we can meet the bank’s business needs while producing a modern, digital stack.
Must Have Skills
- Digital space (Web Banking, Mobile Banking architect)
- Background of React Native and IOS
Primary Responsibilities
- Manages solution design from conception, through ARB, to delivery
- Primarily responsible for producing architecture documentation for digital banking applications and other projects and programs of work as assigned
- Maintains Bank Solution and Systems Design Inventory as a member of the Core Enterprise Architecture Team
- Partners with line of business stakeholders, delivery teams, and SMEs to produce and refine product requirements
- Designs both the components and interactions of solution architectures that will deliver intended business outcomes
- Collaborates with architects in other domains (Data, Security, Infra, Cloud, DevOps) to produce consensus and governance
- Leads solution design workshops and emerging technology POC workshops
- Validates 3rd Party/Vendor Solutions
- Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
- Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
- Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
- Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions as delivered align with Enterprise Architecture Standards & Patterns
- Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap
- Provides consultation on complex projects
- May lead the work of others and contribute feature work and pull request/code reviews as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field
- (4 ) years of solutions architecture experience
- (7 ) years of full-stack mobile and web application development
- Experience with n-tier web application architecture, native-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and native-mobile solution architecture
- Experience with technical documentation like interaction diagrams, process diagrams, network topologies and other architectural content
- Experience with Agile/SAFe methodologies
Certifications/Licensures
- AWS Certified Solution Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred, not required)
Skills And Competencies
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge on React Framework developments and best practices
- An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategies
- Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
- Hands-on-the-keyboard depth of knowledge in web/mobile application languages and frameworks (iOS Native, Android Native, ReactJS/React Native preferred)
- Hands-on-the-keyboard depth of knowledge in web/mobile CI and CD techniques using modern, shift-left methodologies
- Knowledge of application security design principles and techniques
- Understanding of enterprise middleware application languages and framework (e.g. C#, Java, Node.js, Apigee, IBM DataPower, Kafka etc.)
- Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
- Understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure) services and platforms like API Gateways, Serverless, Virtual Private Networks, Elastic RDBMS, NoSQL, Key Managers, Load Balancers, Blob Stores, Indexing Services, etc.
- Working knowledge of containerized application environments, Kubernetes & Docker
