Overview
Hybrid3 days a week in the office
$50 - $80
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Skills
Enterprise Architecture
Financial Services
High-level Design
Core Banking
Cloud Architecture
Analytical Skill
Data Governance
IT Strategy
IT Architecture
TOGAF
Job Details
Job Title: Enterprise Architect (TOGAF, Zachman)
Location: Buffalo, NY
Work Model: Hybrid
No C2C, C2H or Visa Sponsorship Available.
Nature & Scope:
Positional Overview
We are seeking a visionary Enterprise Architect to lead the design, implementation, and integration of Cloud infrastructure within our financial organization. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping the organization s technology strategy, landscape, and roadmap. This position requires a deep understanding of banking compliance and U.S. Federal regulations, as well as expertise in designing and implementing solutions that align with operational and security standards.
Role & Responsibility:
Tasks That Will Lead To Your Success
- Strategic Planning: Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps that align business priorities, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology vision.
- High-Level Design: Develop high-level architectural models and frameworks that support secure, scalable, and resilient solutions across complex financial ecosystems.
- Detailed Solutions Architecture: Translate strategic objectives into actionable solution architectures that provide clear direction to delivery and engineering teams.
- Regulatory & Risk Alignment: Ensure architectural solutions comply with financial industry regulations, internal risk frameworks, and data privacy standards, supporting auditability and operational integrity.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business leaders, product owners, and technology teams to ensure architectural alignment across client services, digital platforms, and core banking systems.
- Implementation Leadership: Provide architectural oversight and governance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and successful on-time execution of high-impact initiatives.
- Trusted Advisor: Build strong relationships with management, providing expert advice and insights to support decision-making.
- Communication: Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences, fostering alignment and informed decision-making.
- Vendor & Partner Engagement: Collaborate with external technology providers and service partners to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for performance, cost-effectiveness, and agility in a highly regulated environment.
Skills & Experience:
Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to align technology architecture with business strategy, identifying opportunities to drive value, efficiency, and innovation across complex financial services ecosystems.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of financial services, particularly the needs of high-net-worth clients and institutions, with the ability to translate those needs into effective architectural solutions.
- Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Proficiency in developing and applying enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) to guide technology planning, governance, and execution.
- Solution Design: Skilled in designing end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards, while addressing both current and future-state business capabilities.
- Technology Integration: Experience integrating diverse systems, platforms, and data sources to create cohesive, interoperable solutions that support seamless client experiences and operational efficiency.
- Risk and Compliance Awareness: Strong grasp of regulatory and risk considerations in financial services, with the ability to architect solutions that meet compliance, audit, and data governance requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to collaborate with senior business and technology leaders, facilitating alignment, managing expectations, and influencing strategic decisions.
- Communication and Visualization: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences through clear documentation, presentations, and visual models.
- Change Leadership: Ability to lead through ambiguity, drive consensus, and support organizational change as part of large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Critical Thinking Skills: A creative and analytical approach to diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.
- Continuous Learning: A passion for staying updated on financial services related technologies and their rapidly evolving tools, features, and best practices.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Education: Bachelors in computer science, IT, engineering, or related field
- 7+ years in cloud architecture, with 3+ years focused on Azure hybrid environments.
- Knowledge of institutional banking products and services including capital markets, investment management, structured finance, and M&A.
- Experience in driving and delivering innovation within the realm of financial services.
- Working knowledge of architecture diagramming practices, architectural frameworks, and/or enterprise architecture tools
- Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and/or solution architecture including developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
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