IT Solutions Architect III

About the role

Administers compliance functions of the IT department under the guidance of the IT Solution Architect Manager and Information Technology Director. Coordinates and supports proper change management to meet regulatory/compliance changes required for systems, processes, customer/employee notification and/or internal education.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects for the deployment and integration of software systems.
• Collaborate on strategies to shape innovative solutions to meet critical business and technology challenges.
• Translate business and technical requirements and specifications into actionable project and product plans, unifying technical and business teams to drive the achievement of common goals.
• Deliver highly scalable, impactful tools that advance the technical and business strategies of the bank.
• Provide system administration for targeted systems.
• Represent IT concerns and consideration in complex challenges and issues to develop creative solutions, insight, and recommendations.
• Coordinate and support proper change management to meet regulatory/compliance changes required for systems, processes, customer/employee notification and/or internal education.
• Collaborates with IT management for the development of documented procedures and policies to support IT and security processes, including internal audit guidelines, hardening guidelines, and best practice guidelines.
• Applies knowledge of regulatory guidelines and industry best practices in making recommendations to mitigate risk associated with Information Technology (IT) audit responses for the business line to include:
  • Tracks and updates IT audit templates to ensure compliance with documented deliverables.
  • Affords assistance in gathering audit request information.
  • Maintains audit artifacts to support validation of remediation efforts, including meeting minutes with Managed IT Provider.
  • Schedules review meetings as necessary to review progress of audit remediation.
  • Maintains working knowledge of compliance regulations for IT.
  • On a continuous basis, tracks ongoing vulnerability updates, and items that may impact the line of business, to include past due, critical, high, and medium in accordance with Service Level Agreements with Managed IT Provider.
  • On a continuous basis, identifies, opens incident or request tickets with Managed IT provider and monitors progress. Escalates issues as appropriate to Director of IT.
  • Independently support multiple technology initiatives and projects with respect to the bank’s overall strategic plan.
  • Works in tandem with PMO to facilitate project deliverables for IT solutions.
  • Attends project meetings, providing project status to the IT management team.
  • Collaborates with Lines of Business and Vendors to facilitate product build and deployment requirements.
  • Collaborates with Business Line Systems Admins and IT Application Support for product support transition.
  • Proactively ensures newly onboarded systems are configured, documented, and maintained to QA specifications for deployment and to meet annual reviews.
  • Executes project management responsibilities on initiatives, projects, and tasks assigned by IT Solution Architect Manager and IT Director.
  • Functions in an independent role to lead IT Solution Architect I & II priorities and schedules to meet department goals and objectives.
  • Functions in a mentoring role to IT Solution Architect I & II regarding system architectures, information technologies, and IT project management.
  • Constructs and maintains department procedures for the management and maintenance of production information systems.
  • Conducts technical reviews of software solutions to analyze system requirements, specifications, and features in accordance with the bank’s corporate standards, policies, procedures, and maintenance guidelines.
  • Performs comprehensive technical review for net-new projects and significant architectural changes for in-place products to determine how the product will be implemented in the S&T Bank environment (Security Controls, System Requirements, Security Entitlement, Support and any concerns or considerations).
  • Ensures any product not meeting corporate policies or build procedure are documented and noted appropriately to the business line and Information Security.
  • Collaborates and leads product managers, business line administrators, IT teams, partner vendors and service providers to deliver and support technical solutions.
  • Researches bank-owned technologies to identify opportunities for consolidation of solutions to minimize the duplication of work or resources.
  • Researches new products and services which would assist in streamlining processes.
  • Researches system integration and automation utilizing Application Programming Interfaces.
  • Provides guidance and direction to the bank’s business lines and managed IT services on software management best practices.
  • Develops strategies for developing and executing test procedures for software systems and services.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of a variety of software platforms and best practices.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of network architecture and security of same.
  • Constructs and maintains documentation of system architecture and data flow to manage and monitor systems and services.
  • Understands and complies with all Corporate Policies pertaining to system deployment, administration, use, and maintenance.
  • Completes mandatory and assigned trainings within the prescribed timeframe with a qualifying score.
  • Maintains a good working relationship with all bank employees. Demonstrates the ability to work independently.
  • Works as a team player to contribute to the success of the department and in turn the organization.
  • Completes other tasks and duties as assigned by the Solution Architects Manager and/or IT management.

Qualifications

• Requires a four-year business degree or equivalent specializing in computer science, information technology, or management information science.
• Requires five to ten years of general experience and five to ten years specialized experience in direct administration, design, deployment, QA\evaluation of client\server applications, client\server database systems, or systems integration technologies (Web Services, RestAPI, Connectors, etc.).
• Prefers two to five years serving as lead on managing audit and compliance duties for systems deployment and administration.
• Prefers two to five years serving as lead on medium to large IT Projects of medium to high complexity.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of a variety of software platforms and best practices.
• Advanced knowledge of network architecture and security of same.
• Knowledge of regulatory guidelines and industry best practices.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$55,000.00 - $156,450.00

Schedule

Monday - Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM (Additional hours as necessary to meet the objectives of the department)