BPA Solution Architect Dallas or Detroit metro

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Qualifications

Position Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited University in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technology related field, OR equivalent through a combination of education and / or technology experience, OR 12 years of technology experience
• 6 years of Architect experience
• 6 years of experience leading large complex technology projects
• 7 years of experience identifying technical solutions for complex business problems
• 5 years of experience mentoring other technologists
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.

Job Description

Business Process Automation (BPA) Solution Architect

Comerica is excited to be enhancing our architecture team and is looking for a qualified Solution Architect that will focus on developing new or enhancing existing BPA solutions leveraging Pega (highly preferred), iGrafx, AWS Services or similar platform technologies.

Solution Architects will need to provide deep expertise of the overall systems architecture across all layers including web, application, database, operating system, network, and security.

Thorough understanding of the business and application inter-dependencies across the business domains will be key to long term success in the role.

Daily you can expect to complete activities such as :

• Coordinating project technical activities.
• Translate the technical architecture design into functional deliverables.
• Oversee and mentor project engineers.
• Ensure technological risks are accounted for and solutions meet requirement.
• Code and develop application software to be effectively designed, built, and tested to design specifications, as appropriate.
• Assisting with the evaluation and recommendation of relevant technology, tools and practices aligned with the business strategy and priorities.

Deliverables you will be accountable for include :

• Owning the low-level technical design document.
• Owning the system integration design.
• Assigning team code development tasks.
• Code reviews for development team.
• Functional proof of concepts to validate solution, as appropriate.
• Creating reusable patterns from projects for enterprise reuse.

Position Responsibilities :

Innovation

• Perform research activities to identify emerging technologies and trends that may affect the enterprise.
• Maintain awareness of vendor / product industry developments, regulations and trends and identify potential impacts to the enterprise.
• Assist in vendor / product selection activities including the development of vendor / product evaluation models used in Requests for Proposal (RFP's).
• Design and oversee efforts in building effective bank specific Proof of Concept demonstrations and socialize the results throughout the enterprise and all levels of management.

Strategy

• Lead or support enterprise capability definition aligned with business strategy.
• Provide technical / business consulting to internal IS organizations and client-sponsored activities outside of IS.
• Acquire and maintain deep understanding of Comerica's business domain specific business processes, supporting applications, integrations dependencies, security model, technology constraints limitations.
• Analyze the business drivers that determine key architecture requirements.
• Highly engaged and drive strategic domain specific initiatives and programs from a technology perspective.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with business domain leadership to keep track of changing business needs and priorities.

Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Perform technical architecture planning activities.
• Facilitate and develop architectural standards for key technologies.
• Mentor Agile / DevOps practices and procedures among domain teams.
• Facilitate the development and evolution of the architecture and global governance processes.
• Define and facilitate the process for approving architecture principles and standards.
• Develop, collect and analyze Enterprise Architecture metrics to identify continual improvement opportunities.

About Comerica

We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family.

Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future.

Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive.

We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs.

You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses.

We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check.

NMLS certification requirement : where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE : CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by the Business Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management.

Comerica's more than 9,000 colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - veterans / individuals with disabilities, committed to workplace diversity.