Solutions Architect - Banking

Location - Irving TX - hybrid 3 days onsite/week

Senior Solutions Architect

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.