Solutions Architect - Banking

Job Title: Solutions Architect - Digital Banking

Job Location: Quincy MA 02169 (hybrid)

Onsite Requirements:

• Digital banking


• Solutions architecture


• Restful APIs, API-led design

Job Description:

• As a Solution Architect for Digital Consumer Banking, the architect utilizes his/her expertise to recommend operational strategies and plans for the Solutions Architecture function with direct impact on company and IT results. S/he manages most strategic Digital Consumer Banking Architecture accounts and communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance; influencing business decision made by leadership. In addition, s/he evaluates and takes in care of the compliance with the organization's technology standards and works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.

Responsibilities:

• Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segments


• Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs


• Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department


• Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance


• Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations


• Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps


• Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, allowing individual business units to innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage


• Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners


• Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization.


• Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines


• Influences business decisions made by leadership


• Leads, guides, and mentors best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies


• Candidate will perform comprehensive discovery analysis and definition of client issues and documents implementation in the form of a technical ("blue-print") solution.


• Determine how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs


• Act as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases, throughout the entire life cycle of the product.


• Complete current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.


• Combine exceptional interpersonal skills, technical aptitude and creative thinking to consult with prospective and existing clients to understand their business needs, map those needs to Client solutions, requirements.

Must Have Skills:

• 7+ years of experience


• Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience


• Restful APIs, API-led design


• Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, Payments, BillPay, monetary movements, Zelle, Fund Now, Transfer Now


• Integration design experience


• Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram

Nice to Have:

• Cybersecurity concepts: MFA, best practices, encryption standards, device biometrics


• Cybersecurity risk assessment


• Solution Architect to spearhead the development of the online and mobile banking application


• Experience working with applications with significant traffic, AWS, APIs, Events (Kafka / MQ / Event Bridge), ReactJS / Java


• Excellent communication, team player, proactive


• Demonstrated experience of tight collaboration with Business owners


• Demonstrated experience of tight collaboration with Technical owners


• Fluency in Spanish is not required but nice to have

• **3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.


• This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future**