Title: Solutions Architect Location: Pittsburgh, PA - Onsite Employment Type: Full Time
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.
Position Description:
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the architecture and solution design for enterprise-scale document management and content services platforms supporting a major banking organization. This role will be responsible for defining scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions across enterprise document management ecosystems, integrating modern digital platforms with legacy enterprise systems. This role will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and enterprise architects to deliver strategic document management and content modernization initiatives.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
- Define end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise document management and content services platforms
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions supporting:
- Document ingestion
- Content management
- Workflow orchestration
- Search and retrieval
- Customer-facing document services
- Develop architecture blueprints, integration patterns, and technical roadmaps
- Lead architecture discussions and provide technical direction to development teams
- Define integration strategies across:
- Core banking systems
- Customer applications
- Workflow/BPM platforms
- APIs and enterprise services
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and compliance requirements
- Drive modernization initiatives across legacy and cloud-native platforms
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to ensure operational scalability and resiliency
- Support performance optimization, disaster recovery, and operational readiness planning
- Provide governance, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments
Skills:
- Cloud Computing
- Database
- Full Stack Development
- Infrastructure
- Java
- Solutions Architecture
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
10+ years of strong experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems and applications
10+ years of expertise in:
- Solution architecture
- System integration
- API-driven architectures
- Event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of Microservices architecture, Cloud-native design principles & Enterprise integration patterns
- 8+ years of experience designing High-volume transaction processing systems & Scalable content and document management solutions
- Strong technical background in: Java / Springboot, REST APIs and Integration services & Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2)
- Strong Experience working with enterprise document management / ECM platforms such as: OpenText, IBM File Net, Hyland OnBase, AEM or Sharepoint
- Good understanding of Kafka / Event streaming platforms, CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments, Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform Understanding of Hybrid cloud architectures, Infrastructure scalability disaster recovery
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience leading cross-functional technical teams
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions Experience conducting architecture reviews and technical governance
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills:
- Experience in banking or financial services industry
- Familiarity with Document ingestion and retrieval, metadata management, search and indexing and document management lifecycle
- Knowledge of Security frameworks and identity/access management & Observability and monitoring
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive insurance options
- Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Wellness and Well-being programs
Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink's privacy policy.