Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect at GVA Partners

Our client, a top tier (2) commercial bank, requires the service a highly skilled enterprise architect with Fin-Tech experience. The successful candidate would be expected to catalogue, develop, coordinate, communicate, maintain and enforce the overall enterprise architectural models to adequately perform the organizations business.

Responsibilities

• Assess overall alignment between business and technology roadmaps
• Evaluate solutions alignment with the end user experience
• Create, own and maintain the Technologies Architectural Artifacts (building blocks, models, governance, architecture and unified roadmaps, etc.).
• Collaborate on the creation and maintenance of the enterprise business capability model.
• Form cross-functional teams (Network, Operations, Development, Data Warehouse, Quality, etc.) to facilitate the creation of optimal architectures which align to the architecture plan
• Provide technical leadership for various business units and technology groups
• Apply analytical thought processes to quickly understand technical challenges discovered during the life-cycle of the initiative
• Evaluate how security impacts the design & development process of various solutions
• Communicate often with the business units and explain the value of technical architectures, solutions, and strategies
• Lead the documentation and analysis of the current state of all of the IT environments and technology landscape
• Collaborate on defining future state architectures and develop gap plans
• Collaborate extensively with IT Leaders , Product Managersand technical delivery teams to ensure alignment of best practices and standards
• Mentor and guide other Engineers (software, data, network, etc.)
• Presenting architecture and strategy to all layer of the company from executives to individual contributors

Qualifications & Skills required

• First Degree in Computer Science, or related discipline preferred
• At least 3 years’ experience in working as an enterprise or solution architect      designing and implementing large-scale systems and databases
• At least 5 years’ experience as a developer
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business professionals
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations and lead cross-functional teams
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application integration, including SOA, Microservices, ETL environments and an understanding of integration considerations such as process orchestration, custom data integration, and master data management
• Thorough knowledge of business function and in-depth knowledge of business operations, objectives, and strategies
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, EACOE, etc.)
• Previous development experience in multiple disciplines (Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, Java, HTML, AJAX, JSON, DDL, SQL, NoSQL, or relevant open source platforms)
• Deep understanding of design patterns, principles, and frameworks
• Working knowledge of UI/UIX design principles
• Strong understanding on network architecture, designs, and protocols
• Extensive experience integration with 3rd party products (both business and technical)
• Experience with mobile applications and how they interact with various back end architectures
• A good understanding of the architectural principals of cloud-based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure, and application servers
• Strong knowledge of the security operations, standards & issues involved in multi-tier, multi-tenant web applications
• Track record of being proactive, identifying gaps, making constructive suggestions and follow through to resolution
• Proven ability to creatively problem-solve for various types of issue in multiple disciplines
• Experience presenting to senior leadership