Solutions Architect II

Job Description:

• At Client, the Solutions Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partners with business and technology subjectmatter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Participates in the design and modeling of architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Collaborates on roadmaps to ensure enough architectural runway to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Promotes the reuse of services, components, frameworks, and infrastructure as code to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Supports team members on the design of deployment strategies and solutions
• Look for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Makes recommendation to improve application operational efficiency, enhance program usage and increase understanding of the program
• Works closely with Cyber Security to understand network, application, and data security requirements
• Works with all stakeholders to understand nonfunctional requirements that may have a material impact on solution architecture
• Works with software delivery teams to ensure that the solutions are observable and secure by design

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and three (3) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Or a High School Diploma/GED and seven (7) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Experience of Ntier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies

Certifications/Licensures:

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• OPEN banking Knowledge is a must
• Aggregators digital banking, API, AWS cloud services knowledge
• An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, platforms, and cloud native serverless architectures (AWS, Azure a plus)
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift a plus)
• Knowledge of instrumentation, telemetry, and observability frameworks and platforms (OpenTelemetry, DynaTrace, Splunk a plus)
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Knowledge with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems like Salesforce
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.

Note:

• This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.
• It has to be contract to hire position.
• Knowledge of Open banking required
• AWS and API servicing

Pay Range: $70 - $75

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.