Solutions Architect

Grow your career as a Solutions Architect with an innovative global bank in Irving, TX. Contract role with strong possibility of extension.

Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide.

Will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders.

You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration : 10+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s / University degree.
• 10+ years of overall banking, financial services experience.
• 10+ years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems.
• Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate.
• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions.
• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures.
• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles.
• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc.
• caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools.
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate.
• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits.
• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Masters degree / MBA
• Banking / Financial / Payment experience.
• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.).

What You Will Be Doing

Accountable for management of complex / critical / large professional disciplinary areas. Lead and direct a team of professionals.

Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function.

Apply in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity.

Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses / geographic regions.

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Provide thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape.
• Interface with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on company requirements.
• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions.
• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state.
• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market.
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy / partner analysis.
• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams.
• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.
30+ days ago