What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Solution Architect position at The Custom Group of Companies?
Principal Solution Architect - Anti-Money Laundering 24-00234
1 Year Contract - extension possibly W3 Only
Candidates must live within commutable Distance to NYC and able to work onsite 2 days a week / 3 remote
Must be able to pass a Level 2 Security Clearance
No Corp to Corp or 3rd party agencies
- Participates in domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction
- Drives technology improvements within the sphere of influence and complexity levels.
- Analyzes, designs, and develops a roadmap and implementation plan
- Meets with IT teams to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
- Participates in developing policies, standards, guidelines and procedures
- Analyzes the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
- Researches and evaluates emerging technology, industry and market trends
- Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities
- Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others
- Partners with other functions across IT (PM, BA, EA, Security, Operations) to ensure collaboration, consistency, quality and timeliness of solution
- Identifies opportunities for reuse Participates in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases and business innovation portfolio development
- Leads and coordinates domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction
- Develops business case(s) for approval
- Recommends allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives
- Develops, and communicates domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines and procedures
- Leads and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process
- Reviews and approves domain level recommendations to architectural standards
- Consults on enterprise-facing projects
- Leads research and evaluation activities for technology solutions
- Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support organizational change management initiatives
- Builds professional relationships with executives to gather and articulate the technical vision, and to produce the strategic plan for realizing it
- Aligns FRB SF IT architecture strategy with enterprise IT strategy and plans
- Works with senior business leaders to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives
- Leads FRB SF IT architecture Governance processes and manages exceptions to architecture standards
- Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements
- Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends
- Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solution / service
- Proactively identifies reuse goals, opportunities and related explorations
- Partners with leadership to define and communicate long-term technology strategy and planning for the Bank
- Leads the design of key solutions, ensuring they are managed and coordinated with other internal or external enterprise business, information and technology architecture
- Provides leadership and guidance to the teams responsible for architecting, implementing and performing continuous improvement
- Contributes to the design, development and implementation of short- and long-term technical solutions through new and existing applications, systems architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure
- Provides leadership, strategic direction and architecture improvements to improve customer satisfaction, speed of development, cost of development, implementation, and ease of maintenance
- Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives
- Oversees all software architectural efforts
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of best practices surrounding architectural design and applications development, inclusive of development technologies and best practices
- Develops road maps describing the evolution of all business solution portfolios from current state to future state
- Oversees models, including solution patterns, to guide solution decisions for the Bank
- Ensures that all individual solution architecture design and analysis work is documented
- Defines principles to guide solution decisions for the business application portfolio Complexity
- Oversees architecture implementation and ongoing refinement activities
- Leads the creation or evolution of the Bank's architecture function / program
- Understands, advocates and supports the Bank's IT strategies
- Consults on the most complex tasks or projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
Quals
Top 5 must-have hard skills : AML financial fraud experience, AML ontology development experience (knowledge models), Java, springboot, oracle, messaging, Kafka, microservices, experience with one or of these is good to have
2. Top 5 soft skills : communication, abstract thinking, business and technology, senior leaders 3. Team size : agile squad 10-15 ppl 4. Key aspects of the role :
lead architect on significant AML software renovation effort
5. Day-to-day Expectations : work closely with agile squad, follow agile ceremonies, sprint
