*Must have Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Collect information from different sources and integrate information to find creative technical solutions that meet business needs.
• Build, present, and document comprehensive architecture designs in a concise, yet thorough manner.
• Perform reviews and assessments of team deliverables to ensure adherence to architecture designs and standards.
• Understand, define, and communicate critical quality attributes or non-functional requirements at the solution level.
• Work with other architects to craft Architectural Proof-of-Concepts to determine the feasibility and technical risks of a proposed design.
• Investigate new technologies and stay abreast of industry developments and trends.
• Support Enterprise Architects in the creation, maintenance, and adoption of company technology standards.
• Analyze necessary functionality / features to figure out appropriate technologies (recommending new technologies as appropriate).
• Perform architecture reviews and assessments while working with business, technical or product teams to improve their existing solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers; leading by example, providing hands-on technical expertise, helping foster creativity, and modeling Corporate core values.
• Investigate new solution compatibility with the existing environments
• Collaborate with other Architects and Technical Leads to ensure consistency across teams and improve technology reuse.
• Define high-level architecture, standard methodologies, and guidelines that balance short-term and long-term objectives in a practical manner
• Support Enterprise Architects in the establishment and adoption of company technology standards.
• Develop strategies for risk mitigation, including risks associated with unstable or un-scalable requirements.
• Lead Joint Architecture Design sessions to collaboratively design solutions
• Present solutions to the Architecture Review Board for review and approval
• Develop, define and contribute to Architecture & Technology Standards
• Build roadmaps for technical capabilities and contribute to technical capability backlogs that get executed by Engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to ensure execution of work aligns to roadmap and vision
• Frequently interact with internal customers of capabilities to gain insight and tailor capability roadmaps to meet the customers’ needs
• Lead adoption efforts and track adoption rates of technical capabilities
• Track customer satisfaction for technical capabilities and adjust roadmap as necessary to serve internal customers to the highest level
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required and 10 + years of relevant engineering (including at least 5 year of experience with architecture)
• Strong working knowledge of most relevant systems and platforms, and expertise in at least 1 primary technology
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum/Kanban, SAFe)
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Web and Public Cloud architectures
• Ability to apply models, tools and methods;
• Ability to design and develop solutions;
• Ability to integrate solutions;
• Ability to design modular architectures, platform thinking, domain-driven design
• Relevant certification for the corresponding architecture discipline
• Knowledge and skills surrounding .NET platform (C#, etc..)

Preferred Experience, Qualifications, and Skills:

• Experience, knowledge, or skills in architecture modeling standards (C4, ArchiMate, UML, etc..)
• Experience, knowledge, or skills in Solution Architecture Options Analysis / Tradeoff Analysis (e.g., ATAM, SWOT).
• Excellent large-scale design and implementation skills with broad and deep experience in elastically scaling and resilient architectures
• Shows a deep understanding of information systems from a holistic perspective, key technologies, systems modeling and enterprise frameworks.
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Azure-based Cloud architectures.
• Knowledge and skills surrounding .NET platform.
• Experience building/supporting distributed systems
• Experience designing system architectures for web based financial systems
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Able to conduct proof of concepts, perform solution / technology evaluations and comparisons, give estimations, and provide architecture recommendations to product teams.
• Able to balance the long term and short-term implications of architectural decisions.
• Able to work independently and prioritize work.
• Ability to coach, delegate and develop junior architects and engineers
• Ability to communicate at different levels (engineer up to leadership)
• Ability to influence and solve conflicts
• Conceptual and creative thinking
• Enterprise and strategic level thinking