Application Architect

About the role

The Application Architect provides the technical vision and direction within an application domain. Exempt Status: Yes (not eligible for overtime pay). Workplace Type: Office (with flexible work arrangement options).

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, its alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community.
• Communicate and govern use of architectural trends and best practice within the application domain.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB’s federated architect program.
• Conduct product/solution evaluations for architectural domain.
• May mentor technical delivery staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of related experience

Qualifications

• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Experience working in a consumer-centric company and with teams of technical professionals in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes
• Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity
• Hands on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution
• Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with in-depth understanding of the business requirements
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration
• Experience in consumer/retail and commercial/business banking – branch and digital (online/direct) banking
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud
• Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence