Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: 3x each week hybrid - Charlotte, NC or Jersey City, NJ (Please find local candidates) New, modernization of platform from on-prem to Microservices

• Extensive experience in information technology, with 2 years of financial services, and 10+ years of solution architecture experience
• Significant experience defining the architectural vision and design for large, complex solutions, which align with the enterprise architecture strategy, technology and platform choices for the Payments domain.
• The go-to expert on microservices architecture and cloud migrations in the Financial services industry.
• Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts and determining the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, assisting with end to end solution design where needed, defining non functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and expand into new opportunities.
• Adept at ensuring a solution is fit for purpose by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers, and evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions.
• Expertise in best practices, standard templates, and architecture roadmaps and working with delivery teams to guide their adoption
• Deep experience with design governance, code and Architecture decision papers and past experience as a developer.
• Expert at interpreting business needs and applying innovative technology solutions.
• Proven track record mentoring junior team members and adept at collaborating with remote teams across time zones
• Experience with SW development processes (Agile and Waterfall).
• Ability to liaise with and advise Technology leadership and POs in all aspects of application design and development.

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of DDD, distributed systems design, integration patterns, microservices architecture, Cloud native, UML.
• Taking a product from inception through requirements, design, development, implementation readiness, and maintenance.
• Demonstrable experience designing and building high throughput, low latency applications using microservices, containers, distributed databases, Kafka.
• Proven ability to perform trade-off analysis between scalability, security, resiliency, availability in designing distributed systems by applying domain expertise, practical experiments and Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Ensure adherence to the architecture governance processes and compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
• Technical leadership and exposure across a broad scale of tools, technologies, and architecture models.
• Manage multiple development designs and projects concurrently to meet required timelines.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or other CSP.