Job Description :
GENERAL FUNCTION:
Makes decisions on complex architecture issues. Coordinates with users to determine requirements and design systems to fit their needs. Ensures system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank’s risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.
1. Plays a key role as the technical solution architect for various projects, especially strategic projects for the bank.
2. Play the role of an Evangelist to socialize solution designs and the value of architecture to solve complex problems.
3. Responsible for producing solution architecture artifacts and deliverables. Lead and participate in solution architecture reviews in an iterative fashion to achieve optimal designs.
4. Document architecture decisions and why those decisions were made.
5. Acts as a technical expert addressing problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration.
6. Keeps current with trends and technological innovations in the banking and IT industry, and makes appropriate development recommendations.
7. Actively participate in architecture forums to present new thoughts and ideas as well as provide feedback on others’ topics.
8. Partner closely with infrastructure architects, engineers, developers and other technical resources.
9. Interacts and consults with appropriate business analysts to understand application requirements and defines architectural components to meet those requirements.
10. Develops architectural plans and roadmaps supportive of the business objectives.
11. Documents architecture appropriately and consistently within the defined architectural process.
12. Ensures for realistic and tactical solutions.
13. Negotiates priorities and resolves conflicts among stakeholders and project team(s
Education & Experience:
10+ years of experience in IT preferably from an IT development background. 5 years or more of that experience as a Solution/Application Architect
Experience with banking and payments
Experience with Java/JEE type of environment in enterprise scale projects
Experience with various integration technologies (API Management, ESB, Messaging, etc
Experience with web and mobile solution architectures
Experience with Cloud technologies, esp Salesforce, AWS, Azure
Experience with BPM, Cognitive Computing and Big Data (Hadoop, NoSQL) type of technologies is a big plus
Experience in Banking domain with expertise in Payments is a big plus
Effective written, verbal, presentation and listening skills