Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to gain insight into objectives, processes, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.

• Design comprehensive solution architectures that encompass both current-state and future-state perspectives, system context, integration patterns, data flows, infrastructure, and security requirements.

• Assess solution alternatives and provide insights, including recommendations, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and considerations for implementation.

• Streamline the technology landscape, minimize technical debt, enhance interoperability, automate processes, and modernize outdated capabilities.

• Offer technical leadership during the resolution of complex incidents, conducting root-cause analyses and developing remediation plans.

• Convey intricate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

• Analyze emerging technologies and create reusable architectural patterns.

• Oversee the development, analysis, and implementation of comprehensive end-to-end solutions.

• Diagnose technology and process challenges across various systems and teams.

• Identify alternative solutions, manage risks, and re-engineer existing processes.

• Work in collaboration with teams in application development, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, operations, business analysis, quality assurance, and project delivery.

• Assist in vendor and platform assessments, focusing on technical compatibility, integration capabilities, security, resiliency, support models, lifecycle, and overall cost.

• Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry practices, and financial services trends, recommending adoption when advantageous.

• Convert business challenges into scalable, secure, and reliable solution designs.

• Provide technical leadership and direction to development teams.

• Record architectural decisions, standards, risks, dependencies, and implementation guidance in line with governance, SDLC, and change-management protocols.

• Adhere to architectural standards and governance aligned with the enterprise technology roadmap, regulatory requirements, and security protocols.

• Implement and document changes according to SDLC and change-management procedures.

• Act as an escalation point for high-severity issues, troubleshooting and resolving complex incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on Azure and/or AWS.

• Familiarity with APIs, microservices, containerization, and/or serverless technologies.

• Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures.

• Knowledge of observability and reliability patterns.

• Extensive experience in designing and delivering complex enterprise technology solutions across various systems, platforms, or business functions.

• Demonstrated ability to decompose legacy or vendor-centric environments and execute stepwise modernization in production.

• Background in banking, credit unions, payments, lending, or another regulated financial services environment.

• Experience with APIs, event-driven or messaging patterns, data exchange, identity and access management, and system-to-system integration.

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or similar DevOps toolsets.

• Familiarity with architecture governance, technology standards, design reviews, SDLC controls, change management, and operational readiness.

• Experience creating operational documentation, including runbooks, support models, and monitoring/alerting requirements.

• Ability to assess ambiguous or complex problems, develop options, build consensus, and clearly present recommendations.

• Strong follow-through skills, member relations skills, and sound business judgment.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

• Comfortable reviewing and reading code in at least one modern programming language, such as C#, Java, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses.

• 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match per pay period.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Life insurance provision.

• Disability insurance coverage.

• Flexible paid time off policy.

• 11 paid holidays each year.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and a welcoming, inclusive workplace.