Enterprise Solution Architect

Enterprise Solution Architect Location: Pennington, New Jersey (Hybrid) Employment Type: Contract Contract Duration: 12 Months Role Overview This organization seeks an Enterprise Solution Architect to design end-to-end solution architectures for complex banking products and platforms. The role involves ensuring scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and resiliency. The successful candidate will lead the design and governance of APIs, event‑driven architectures, and microservices across multiple lines of business. Key Responsibilities Design end-to-end solution architectures for banking products and platforms. Lead the design and governance of RESTful APIs, event‑driven architectures, microservices, and integration patterns. Develop enterprise canonical models, reusable frameworks, and reference architectures. Architect cloud‑native applications using modern platforms. Identify and design AI/ML use cases and define architecture patterns for responsible AI. Integrate AI capabilities into APIs and enterprise applications. Partner with product owners and business leaders to translate strategic goals into technical roadmaps. Conduct architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise standards. Mentor junior architects and engineers. Ensure solutions adhere to banking security and regulatory requirements (e.g., FFIEC, PCI‑DSS, SOX). Build and maintain architecture diagrams, API catalogs, and design artifacts. Required Qualifications Experience: 5+ years of experience in architecture, solution design, or engineering leadership roles. Technical Skills Deep understanding of retail, commercial, or wealth banking platforms and business processes. Strong expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL), microservices, integration frameworks, and event‑streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka). Hands‑on knowledge of cloud architectures and container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift). Experience with AI/ML platforms, MLOps frameworks, model deployment techniques, or intelligent automation solutions. Proficiency with data architecture concepts, including data modeling, canonical models, data governance, and metadata management. Knowledge of Soap/Rest Webservices. Experience with Oracle SQL / PLSQL. Other Skills Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels. Preferred Qualifications Experience with banking core systems, payments, onboarding/KYC, lending, or risk management platforms. Familiarity with enterprise API gateways, service meshes, and identity/authorization frameworks (OAuth, OpenID Connect). Exposure to generative AI, LLM integration, or enterprise AI platforms. Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, or AI/ML specializations. Equal Employment Opportunity Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr