Solution Architect I

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Remote, EST - must be comfortable traveling to Buffalo, NY every 4 to 6 weeks 

Employment: Temp (6 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $68.19/hr.

Schedule: 40 hours/week

About the Opportunity:

• 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 with architecture standards and principles, leveraging common solutions and services, while meeting financial targets. 

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.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• 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 needed.
• 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's brand.
• Maintain the client's internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• SA - Mythos Foundation (x2) Acts as the solution architecture extension of the EA - Mythos Foundation, translating enterprise conceptual, logical, and high-level physical designs into detailed physical designs for the Mythos AI platform.
• Guides and supports engineering teams in realizing core AI platform components, including model integration, access controls, APIs, and embedded AI capabilities within business applications, ensuring alignment with EA-defined platform patterns, guardrails, telemetry, and governance frameworks.
• Provides hands-on architecture guidance for AI platform capabilities, including:
• Model access and lifecycle integration (including SLM execution patterns)
• Telemetry and observability instrumentation for model usage, performance, and risk signals
• Guardrail enforcement (policy controls, data protection, safe usage constraints)
• Integration patterns for embedding AI into enterprise applications.
• Translates model selection frameworks and decision trees into actionable design guidance, ensuring models are applied in a fit-for-purpose manner aligned with cost, performance, and risk objectives defined by EA.
• Partners closely with engineering teams throughout the SDLC-from initiation to production, providing design oversight, supporting implementation decisions, and ensuring adherence to architecture standards, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
• Applies and promotes secure engineering and reliability practices, including threat modeling, vulnerability mitigation, and alignment with observability and SRE capabilities.
• Collaborates with EA, platform engineering, and SRE teams to ensure consistent adoption of enterprise AI platform standards, while feeding implementation insights back into architecture pattern evolution.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 9+ years of experience with 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 Service Reliability Engineering
• Minimum 9+ years of experience in Solution Architecture

What Sets You Apart: 

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree in Technical
• 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
• Effective Communications
• Ability to work and communicate with various stakeholders at differing levels of the organization
• Ability to research and modern technology trends related to technology initiatives
• Ability to research, evaluate, and articulate multiple approaches to solving technical problems

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

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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.

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.