Application Solution Architect

Techstra Solutions LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Techstra Solutions LLC is seeking an experienced Application Solution Architect in Pittsburgh, PA to bridge business and engineering teams. This role involves designing scalable solutions across legacy systems and modern cloud platforms, ensuring compliance and technical governance.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years in enterprise architecture, proven retail banking experience, and a strong background in integration. Relocation assistance is offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise IT architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Proven experience in the retail banking or financial services domain.
• Hands-on experience with integration patterns like REST/SOAP.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture strategies and integration patterns for retail banking.
• Lead solution design to align with enterprise performance requirements.
• Provide technical oversight during implementation to ensure scalability.

Skills

Enterprise IT architecture

Integration patterns

Salesforce

Event-driven architectures

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

API gateways

Middleware

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Application Solution Architect to join our enterprise technology team. This role serves as a key bridge between business stakeholders and technical engineering teams, responsible for designing, assessing, and monitoring complex, scalable solutions. You will navigate a hybrid landscape of on-premises legacy banking systems and modern cloud-based platforms. The ideal candidate possesses a strong engineering background and a broad technical perspective, with the ability to lead the integration of disparate systems including Salesforce, core banking mainframes, and event-driven architectures like Kafka—to produce effective, sustainable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Strategy: Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and data models to support retail banking use cases (e.g., account onboarding, KYC, loan origination).
• Solution Design: Lead high-level and detailed solution design, ensuring that new implementations align with existing enterprise standards and performance requirements.
• Integration & Ecosystem Management: Architect complex integrations between modern platforms (including Salesforce) and core on-premise banking systems, utilizing middleware, API gateways, and Kafka for event-driven data flows.
• Technical Oversight: Provide governance and technical oversight during the build and deployment cycles to ensure scalability, security, and the management of technical debt.
• Compliance & Risk: Partner with risk and audit teams to ensure all solutions comply with retail banking regulatory requirements, data lineage standards, and PII handling policies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate complex business capabilities into actionable technical blueprints and provide executive-level architecture updates to facilitate decision-making.

Required Qualifications / Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 8+ years in enterprise IT architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Proven experience in the retail banking or financial services domain.
• Broad Architectural Expertise: Demonstrated ability to design solutions across diverse tech stacks, including on-premise legacy systems and modern cloud environments.
• Integration Proficiency: Hands-on experience with integration patterns, including event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka), API-first strategies (REST/SOAP), and middleware implementation.
• Salesforce Familiarity: Working knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem as part of a larger enterprise application landscape.
• Communication: Proven ability to lead cross-functional architecture initiatives and act as a subject matter expert in a structured, compliance-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with mainframe integration and data warehouse modernization.
• Relevant architectural certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, or Salesforce Application Architect).
• Experience in high-security, regulated environments requiring strict disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Location

Pittsburgh, PA (relocation assistance is offered)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Techstra Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. The Company makes its decisions on merit, and its policy of equal opportunity prohibits discrimination in all phases of the employment process, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, selection, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment. The policy of equal opportunity applies without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, military status, veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, alienage or citizenship, domestic partnership status, arrest or conviction record, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other protected categories under federal, state, or local law. The Company also prohibits discrimination or harassment based upon the perception that a person has, or is associated with a person who has, any of these characteristics.