Solution Architect

Solution Architect - Infrastructure

Location: Buffalo, NY - 14203 (Open for Remote)

Pay range: $65- 75/hr (Negotiable)

Job Description

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.

Architecture Guidance Provided 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:

• SLIs/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

Skill Set

• Infrastructure
• Solution Architecture
• Effective Communications

Function

• 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.

Position Responsibilities

• Actively participate and collaborate on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs with the assigned Agile teams.
• 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.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
• Experience with multiple programming languages
• Ability to work and communicate with various stakeholders at differing levels of the organization
• Experience in software or service engineering and delivery
• 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 in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns

Ideal Qualifications Preferred

• Graduate degree in technical discipline
• 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 and/or cloud technologies
• Experience working in the financial services industry

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable.