Solutions Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsible for the architecture and design of several critical financial services projects working with the technical teams, client technical and client business stakeholders, and project management. Accountable for the technical delivery of the solution together with team leads. Solutions will have a focus on enterprise integration, cloud migration, legacy modernization, large number of data sources, microservices, APIs, security, and scalability concerns. The candidate must be able to work as a hands-on architect and a systems integrator pulling a solution together for clients working with a multitude of partners, vendors, consultants, contractors, etc.

Responsibilities:

1. Architect cloud solutions in financial services to create products/platforms and client projects in Google (GCP), Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure).
2. Deliver the architecture of transformational projects and develop repeatable patterns and leading practices, designing large-scale data processing systems, and optimizing data pipelines.
3. Apply a broad experience of system architectures, application technologies, data architectures, and infrastructures to support specific IT initiatives.
4. Develop application architecture vision, strategy, and design direction and provide technology proposals for delivering business capabilities.
5. Analyze solutions and technologies and make recommendations based on knowledge of the customer/organization current and future business needs.
6. Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, vendors, and partners to keep on track for core technologies initiatives.
7. Architect solutions based on performance, latency and nonfunctional requirements and information security best practices, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery and operational reliability.
8. Apply the enterprise architecture and technology governance to our solutions, bringing in emerging and innovative technologies to be applied to the architecture of our new solutions.
9. Document architecture of the solution in words or confluence and write all technical aspects of design and architecture.
10. Lead the architecture practice at blanc Labs and drive the digital transformation architecture and digital capabilities.
11. Design the financial services products based on product strategies to achieve an optimal cost-effective technology solution.
12. Architect solutions that hold large datasets and deal with relational or nonrelational databases, data warehouses and data lakes.

Work Experience Requirements:

1. 4+ years solid experience in cloud infrastructure and application architecture in AWS with good knowledge of Azure and GCP.
2. 12+ years of experience as an application architect.
3. 5+ years of experience in FinTech, Financial Services or Banking is required.
4. 5+ years of hands-on system integration experience in large enterprises.
5. Hands-on experience developing Multi-tenant SaaS platforms, REST APIs, Open API specifications, API Gateway for governance and security (oAuth, Tokenization, Encryption) of microservices.
6. Development experience with one or more of Java, .Net, Spring, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular or similar programming languages using containers (DevOps pipeline, Docker/Kubernetes).
7. Strong knowledge of Data architecture including Data Governance, Data Modeling (Data Vault, Dimensional, Normal Form) and database design (RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop), Data Classification, Data Integration, Enterprise Data and Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis and Data Security.
8. Ability to drive workshops with customer IT and business groups.
9. Leverage the latest technologies when building out APIs such as NoSQL databases, serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP) and established software and design patterns. API management solutions (such as Mule or Axway).
10. Strong understanding of various enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF).
11. Excellent communication and presentation skills.
12. Expert in PowerPoint slides, technical documentation and drawing architecture diagrams.

Technologies:

1. Angular, React or Node.js
2. JavaScript, HTML/CSS
3. Python and Python frameworks
4. Java or C#
5. Microservices architecture
6. SQL/NoSQL architectures, Hadoop clusters, Data Lakes
7. AI/ML experience
8. Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
9. WebSocket/REST APIs/API Management
10. Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
11. AWS EKS, Cloud Formation, ECS
12. SAML, OAuth, OpenID
13. Docker/Kubernetes
14. JIRA, Confluence
15. CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins)