Solution Architect

W2 ONLY

S & S

W2 ONLY

As a Solution Architect for Consumer Banking and Channels Architecture utilizes hisher expertise to recommend operational strategies and plans for the Solutions Architecture function with direct impact on company and IT results. She manages most strategic Consumer Banking Architecture accounts and communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance influencing business decision made by leadership. In addition she evaluates and takes in care of the compliance with the organizations 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 Santander solutions, requirements.Duration- Possibility of extension andor full-time employmentLocation- Hybrid position in Boston, MA Quincy Office- 2-3 days a week onsite- Not open to fully remote candidatesMust have Skills- 10 years of experience with 7 years in solution architecture position- Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience- Restful APIs, API-led design- Banking functional concepts Customer Authentication, Payments, Billpay, monetary movements, Zelle, FundNow, TransferNow- Integration design experience- Create logicalfunctional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram- 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 tightly collaboration with Business owners- Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with technical ownersPlusses- Fluency in Spanish is not required but nice to have- Cloud architecture and AI