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.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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