Senior Solutions Architect

Global Financial Firm located in Irving, TX has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect

"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.

You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.

We will be expected in the office weekly 3 days depending on the team requirement.

Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers.

Title: Senior Solutions Architect

Job Description

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 Client 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 Client 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

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.