Role: Solution Architect with enterprise-level Application Architecture Experience
Location: Naperville / Chicago
JD:
Java and enterprise-level Application Architecture Experience
Experience with services management (web services, REST, Web API, ESB, message-based) development, integration and deployment
Role Description: As a member of the Bank’s Technology Strategy and Solutions team, the solution architect, primarily
• Leads end-to-end technology solutions and high-level designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with bank’s target architecture and standards
• Contributes to technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas – deposits, cards, payments, operations, customer experience, analytics
• Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domains to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems
Requires Skillset:
• Solution/Integration architect, who works with other architects including enterprise architects, leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank’s target architecture and standards
o Solution Architect with the following experience:
? All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight,
? Able to relate to end-to-end business processes into solutions
? Data placement and data integration background
? Strong application security/infrastructure, & deployment exposure
? Java and enterprise-level Application Architecture Experience
? Experience with services management (web services, REST, Web API, ESB, message-based) development, integration and deployment
? Previous Development experience
o Multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience
o Service-Oriented Architecture and recent digital/mobile architecture experience
• Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus
o MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g. solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
o Resolve issues as they arise
• Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options, solution architecture, high-level end-to-end design flow) collaborating with other technical leads
• Assists with and contributes to function area-specific target architecture, transition architectures, and technology roadmap
• Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against Bank’s target architecture and standards to solve business problems
• Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately
• Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the “C” level
• Banking solution experience is desirable
• The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to 4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g., Channels, Sales/Marketing/CRM, Commercial Lending, Collections)
Not Looking For:
• Hard-core developers for Java or .Net application coding
• DBA, Data modellers or business intelligence Architects
• Project or Program Manager
• Business analyst, Data analyst, System Analyst or System Administrator
Typical Day-to-Day Activities
• Coordinate cross-team communication and facilitate reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums. Lead socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.
• Facilitate and lead resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members
• Identify and communicate risks (business, application, technical) associated with component or application implementation.
• Evaluate multiple solution design options, working with a multi-disciplined team to design integrated solution architecture across application areas and helping the project adhere to Enterprise standards
• Document solutions using bank’s standard template
• Document high-level design and hand-off work to next group in the development pipeline
Example Projects:
• Help extending existing target architecture and develop transition state solution architecture for customer data
• Drive payment process automation solution in backend payment processing (ACH, Check Processing, Lockbox processing)
• Drive various aspects of Collections solution being part of a the core architecture team responsible for enterprise-wide collections solution
• Drive and document solution for risk underwriting and credit risk auto-decisioning integration
• Drive target architecture and roadmap for various banking capabilities
• Drive cross-product cross-channel customer experience integration architecture retail or commercial customers
• Drive the solution architecture of a new loan origination system