Application Architect Level - 3

Role : Application Architect Level -3

Location: Columbus, OH

Duration: 3 to 6 months (Contract to hire)

MOI : Telephonic & MS Teams

Primary Skills: ATM, ArchiMate Language

Need Candidates with a Minimum of 10 Years of Experience. This is an Onsite/Hybrid role and needs Locals or Nearby to Easton & Columbus, OH.

"Please note that all candidates must be able to work on Sunray's W2 only .

Summary:
The Application Architect provides the technical vision and direction within an application domain.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop, and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, its alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture, and its usage patterns within the development community.
• Communicate and govern the use of architectural trends and best practices within the application domain.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB s federated architect program.
• Conduct product/solution evaluations for the architectural domain.
• Thoroughly understand the application flows and processes to assist the Sr SDM.
• Mentor technical delivery staff.
• Comfortable with leading individuals and resolving conflicts
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with ATM and Branch Systems technology, including batch and backend integrations
• Applies critical thought during collaborations while reviewing documents
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Able to communicate up, down, and laterally between business and IT
• Ability to drive and adhere to strict documentation standards
• Ability to mediate between parties and navigate through stressful situations
• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities, and effectively prioritize them
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and budget
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of the ArchiMate language to document architectural diagrams in Archi
• Experience working in a consumer-centric company and with teams of technical professionals in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes
• Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity
• Hands-on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution
• Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with an in-depth understanding of the business requirements
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration
• Experience in consumer/retail and commercial/business banking branch and digital (online/direct) banking
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems2
• Ability to redirect discussions when necessary to achieve a particular outcome
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall, and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing, including CI/CD, and data infrastructure, including cloud
• Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science, and machine learning/artificial intelligence.