Description: As a Solution Architect for Consumer Banking and Channels Architecture 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 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 Santander solutions, requirements. |
Must have Skills:
- 10 years of experience with 7+ years acting in solution architecture position
- Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience
- Experience working with applications with significant traffic like, AWS, APIs, Events (Kafka / MQ / Event Bridge), ReactJS / Java
- Restful APIs, API-led design
- Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, IVR, Banking Customer Service Call Center, Payments
- Integration design experience
- Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram
- Cybersecurity concepts: MFA, best practices, encryption standards, device biometrics
- Cybersecurity risk assessment
- AWS / Genesys Cloud or IVR Services / Security best practices / Microsoft Dynamics / Oracle / Events (MQ / Kafka) / Java
- Excellent communication, team player, proactive
- Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Business owners
- Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with technical owners |