Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect

Summary:

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 the bank's 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.

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 the bank's 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