Software Architect

Software Architect

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. seeks a Software Architect in Charlotte, NC. Participate in all aspects of PNC's Corporate and Institutional Banking's Systems Engineering Group activities. Specific duties include: (1) participate and contribute towards design discussions across the Lending technology organization; (2) while focusing on innovation, ensure applications follow technology and customer delivery goals of PNC; (3) analyze existing legacy systems and their interactions to understand business functionality; (4) design the integrations solutions in an optimized way by understanding the entire workflow and the upstream and downstream systems thoroughly; (5) engage in various Enterprise architecture forums and groups across PNC; (6) participate in solutioning enterprise needs and goals; (7) stay up to date on enterprise architecture standards and patterns; and (8) gatekeep the various interactions across multiple technology platforms in the lending world.

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CIS, MIS, MIS, Computer Science, or Information Technology plus 5 years of experience architecting enterprise solutions based on microservices and event-driven architecture, including SOA-based web services and SOAP-based APIs, in or for the financial services industry is required. Must have experience with: (1) leading the design of scalable, enterprise-level application systems utilizing Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices architecture for the enterprise collections recovery process; (2) creating detailed software architecture diagrams to document technical challenges and define robust, future-proof solutions; (3) providing technical leadership and guidance to software development teams, including consulting on system integration and data migration strategies; (4) reviewing and approving the technical low-level software designs and conducting thorough code reviews to ensure quality and compliance with architecture standards; (5) defining DevOps Practices and Tools using Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Azure; (6) containerization and Orchestration Technologies using OpenShift or Kubernetes; (7) integrating observability tools including Splunk, Kibana, and Dynatrace for monitoring and logging across microservices; (8) designing and managing data models and databases using Erwin Data Modeler, with hands-on experience in Oracle SQL and MongoDB; and (9) utilizing Performance Engineering and Optimization standards using Dynatrace and either JMeter or HP Performance Tester including systems running on WebSphere.