Financial Solutions Architect

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Financial Solutions Architect on a long-term contract basis.

Job ID 81893

Work Location:

Irving, TX - Hybrid- 3 days onsite and 2 days REMOTE. ***MUST BE LOCAL TO RUTHERFORD, NJ. NO RELOCATION CANDIDATES ACCEPTED.**

This will be an In Person Interview. Must be available.

Pay: $77-$80 per hour W2

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