Solution Architect

Job Responsibilities Supports an assigned portfolio through architecting and designing comprehensive solutions to meet product needs. Works collaboratively with other Solution Architects to assist in the creation of solutions that align to architecture standards and principles, leveraging common solutions and services, while meeting financial targets. Actively participate and collaborate on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs with the assigned Agile teams. Why You'll Love Working Here Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability. Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries. People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work. Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates. Why This Opportunity is Exciting This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance—where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. About Acara Solutions Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider—we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide. What You'll Do Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding solution designs. Assist domain decision‑making by working with domain subject matter experts to articulate the value and tradeoffs of the solution options. Participate in the creation of enterprise architecture standards and evaluate the quality and compliance of delivered solutions to ensure alignment with those standards. Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives in Agile team ceremonies. Produce, enhance, and refine conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture for strategic initiatives that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision. Contribute to the research and identification of potential impacts of existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends within a domain. Participate in governance activities as required. Objectively contribute to the evaluation and resolution of domain specific architecture problems in partnership with domain subject matter experts. Assist other enterprise and solution architects to manage and design architecture for dependent products. Harness existing technology resources through collaboration to benefit solutioning efforts. Understand and adhere to the company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the company's risk appetite. Identify risk‑related issues needing escalation to management. Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client bank brand. Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable. Complete other related duties as assigned. SA - Infrastructure (x2): Acts as the solution architecture extension of EA - Infrastructure, translating enterprise conceptual, logical, and high‑level physical infrastructure designs into detailed physical design guidance for hybrid environments spanning Azure cloud and co‑location data centers. Guides and supports engineering teams in delivering infrastructure solutions aligned with EA‑defined architecture standards, hybrid patterns, and cloud strategy, ensuring consistency across platforms and workloads, including AI and digital services. Provides architecture guidance for Hybrid infrastructure design, including cloud/on‑prem integration, connectivity, and workload placement strategies. Scalability and performance optimization, ensuring infrastructure can support dynamic workloads and growth. Resilience and reliability patterns, including high availability, failover, and disaster recovery aligned with SRE principles. Networking and platform integration, ensuring secure, performant connectivity across distributed environments. Cost efficiency and capacity management, aligned with enterprise FinOps and infrastructure optimization strategies. Supports the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLOs and reliability design considerations. Observability, monitoring, and telemetry integration. Automation and infrastructure‑as‑code patterns. Operational readiness and recoverability frameworks. Partners with engineering teams throughout the SDLC—from design through production, providing design oversight, guiding implementation decisions, and ensuring adherence to enterprise standards for scalability, resilience, security, and operability. Collaborates closely with EA, platform engineering, and SRE teams to ensure consistent adoption of enterprise infrastructure patterns, while feeding implementation insights back into continuous improvement of architecture standards. Job Requirements What You'll Bring High School Diploma or GED. Minimum 9 years of experience in multiple programming languages. Minimum 9 years of experience in software or service engineering and delivery. Minimum 9 years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns. Minimum 9 years of experience in infrastructure. Minimum 9 years of experience in solution architecture. What Sets You Apart Bachelor's degree. Master's degree. Ability to work and communicate with various stakeholders at differing levels of the organization. Ability to research and apply modern technology trends related to technology initiatives. Ability to research, evaluate and articulate multiple approaches to solving technical problems. Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design. Experience in delivering technology and enterprise level presentations. Experience working in an Agile environment. Industry recognized certification in programming languages or cloud technologies. Experience working in the financial services industry. Effective communication. Additional Information Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check. Equal Opportunity Employer Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran. Legal Information Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status. #J-18808-Ljbffr