Application Solutions Architect

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina / Plano, TX (Hybrid)

About the role

An opportunity is available for an Application Solutions Architect to support domains including Corporate Channels, Payments, Accounting Services, and Commercial Card. This role involves delivering technology solution architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic goals. The position entails managing architecture-related risks and driving compliance with established standards, principles, and technology blueprints.

Responsibilities

• Define an architectural vision and solution architecture that aligns with business strategy, enterprise architecture principles, and technology platform choices.
• Articulate the solution intent and operating environment, identify primary systems and their interfaces, and define non-functional requirements.
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose by collaborating with stakeholders and vendors, while assessing the impact of strategic design decisions.
• Work closely with business and technology teams to shape the solution intent and architectural vision.
• Develop high-level architecture designs, refining details as business requirements evolve, ensuring designs are modular and flexible.
• Apply best practices and templates to produce architectural designs.
• Partner with Product Managers to plan and prioritize technology-focused backlog items for the architecture runway.
• Provide clarity to development teams on architectural aspects and offer solution options.
• Conduct design reviews to confirm all non-functional requirements are met.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Banking or Financial Services technology.
• Strong domain knowledge in Commercial Banking, including Corporate Payments, Commercial Card, Corporate Channels, Accounting Services, and Liquidity Management.
• Solid understanding of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience with end-to-end solution design.

Skills

• Expertise in API design, microservices, and integration platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of application architecture in Java, .NET (C#), Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong business partner engagement and coordination skills.
• Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and a problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to translate complex concepts into multiple architectural views.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• TOGAF 9 Certification (preferred).
• Cloud Solutions Architect Certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP) (preferred).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program and access to certification prep, technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
• Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
• Dedicated customer service team for benefits and resources, and a certified Career Coach.