Sr. Enterprise Architect_NC

Looking to hire a Sr. Enterprise Architect for Charlotte, NC.

Overview:

Synechron is looking for an Enterprise architect, who will develop, and deploy a mission-critical API service. This person will be responsible for designing and overseeing the technical architecture of enterprise-level systems within an organization. They work closely with stakeholders, including business leaders, developers, and IT teams, to ensure that the architecture aligns with the organization's goals and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership: Craft a robust, scalable, and resilient architecture for the API, ensuring that it adheres to best practices and modern design patterns. Take into consideration potential risks, future scalability, and integration with existing systems.
• Hands-On Development: Dive deep into coding, ensuring that the API is built with the highest quality standards. Implement robust error-handling mechanisms and ensure data integrity at all stages of transaction processing.
• Uptime & Performance: Implement monitoring and alerting tools to achieve and maintain a target uptime of 99.999% (Five 9s). Continuously monitor response times, optimizing wherever possible to keep them below 3000 milliseconds.
• Redundancy and Resilience: Design backup solutions and failover mechanisms, ensuring the system's continuous operation even under unforeseen circumstances. Evaluate potential vulnerabilities and implement strategies to mitigate them.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Foster a strong collaborative relationship with the business owner, understanding their vision, and ensuring the technical deliverables align seamlessly. Act as the primary technical contact, providing updates and gathering feedback.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Set up, maintain, and refine a modern CI/CD pipeline. Ensure that deployments are smooth, rollback mechanisms are in place, and that the deployment frequency aligns with business needs without compromising stability.
• Quality Assurance and Testing: Partner with QA teams to establish rigorous testing protocols, ensuring that every release is free from defects and meets the expected performance benchmarks. Be receptive to feedback and iterate upon it.
• Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Craft comprehensive documentation detailing the system architecture, individual components, workflow diagrams, and any other pertinent information. Ensure that knowledge is accessible and easily understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills:

• Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record in developing and deploying APIs, preferably in the FinTech sector.
• Magnum Opus: We want candidates who have created a Mangum Opus individually before and are comfortable with large scale projects resting on their shoulders.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in a modern technology stack.
• Independence: Ability to work autonomously and make informed decisions without constant oversight.
• Problem-solving: Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Agile Methodology: Familiarity with Agile but also comfortable working outside strict Agile frameworks.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

We can offer you:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
• A multinational organization with 48 offices in 19 countries and the possibility to work abroad
• Laptop and a mobile phone
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)
• Maternity & Paternity leave plans
• A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
• Retirement savings plans
• A higher education certification policy
• Commuter benefits (varies by region)
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
• Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms
• A flat and approachable organization
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.