Sr. Principal Enterprise Solution Architect

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitate adherence to architecture standards and patterns
• Oversee architecture at a program level initiative
• Define non-functional requirements to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Partner with the business to identify operational and financial efficiencies
• Analyze high-level functional requirements defined by the business
• Provide direction and clarity for Application Architects
• Design system integration patterns
• Provide oversight, governance, and support for federated architecture
• Ensure Application Architects are in alignment with solutions
• Identify technical constraints
• Identify technical debt and recommend paths to resolution
• Influence technology and vendor decisions

Secondary Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate proofs of concept and prototypes
• Periodic analysis and refresh of architecture standards and patterns
• Provide support for target state architecture designs
• Consult for technology roadmaps

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in IT, preferably as an architect
• Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience working as Solution Architect across multiple domains of architecture (business, technology, data, application, and infrastructure)

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in IT, preferably as an architect
• Understanding of general architecture principles
• Proven ability to provide architecture direction on small to large sized projects/initiatives
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Banking industry experience, including regulation and risk
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and testing including
• Experience with Cloud solution enablement
• Experience working with SOA, microservices, and modern web application frameworks
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility as a trusted advisor with leadership, team members, and business partners
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Understanding of ArchiMate Enterprise Architecture Modeling Language
• Understanding of Cloud technologies
• Soft skills training or experience, participation in architecture-related courses or workshops, peer mentoring
• Understanding of software development lifecycle