INTEGRATION ARCHITECT

A financial firm is looking for an Integration Architect to join their team in New York, NY.

Pay : $95 / hr

Responsibilities :

Architectural Leadership :

• Define, document and communicate integration patterns.
• Establish standards for securing integration patterns.
• Provide architectural assessments for integration aspects of proposed solutions.

Solution Design :

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical solutions.
• Ensure best practices and established patterns are followed in the design, development, and deployment of application solutions.

Team Collaboration & Leadership :

Work closely with developers, engineers, and other technology disciplines to promote cohesive and efficient development processes.

Stakeholder Engagement :

• Engage with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their needs and provide technical solutions.
• Present architectural solutions to stakeholders.

Compliance & Security :

Ensure that solutions comply with industry and bank standards and security policies.

Continuous Improvement :

• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in information technology.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and recommend innovative solutions to enhance platform capabilities.

Qualifications :

10+ years of experience in application development, including extensive expertise in file-based, database, messaging and web services design with emphasis on information security.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of designing and implementing various types of integrations using various data structures such as JSON, XML, CSV and Fixed-Length Fields.

Technical Skills :

• In-depth knowledge of mainstream integration patterns, legacy and modern architectures, and cloud technologies preferably in an AWS environment more specifically, cloud managed services, containerization, package management and CI / CD pipelines.
• Detailed and low-level knowledge, experience, and understanding of security and encryption patterns, and protocols required to secure integrations including Basic Auth, OAUTH, SAML, OIDC, SSO, JWT, and IDP integration patterns.
• Ability to produce actionable technical design documents for critical and complex scoped items collaborating with developers.
• Real-world experiences with enterprise integrations (file-based, database, messaging and web services) and able to influence the right solution approach taking all stakeholder viewpoints.

Professional Skills :

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile development environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Financial Services industry experience is a plus.

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