Solution Architect

Solution Architect Location: 3x each week hybrid - Charlotte, NC or Jersey City, NJ (Please find local candidates) New, modernization of platform from on-prem to Microservices

Extensive experience in information technology, with 2 years of financial services, and 10+ years of solution architecture experience

Significant experience defining the architectural vision and design for large, complex solutions, which align with the enterprise architecture strategy, technology and platform choices for the Payments domain.

The go-to expert on microservices architecture and cloud migrations in the Financial services industry.

Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts and determining the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, assisting with end to end solution design where needed, defining non functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and expand into new opportunities.

Adept at ensuring a solution is fit for purpose by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers, and evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions.

Expertise in best practices, standard templates, and architecture roadmaps and working with delivery teams to guide their adoption

Deep experience with design governance, code and Architecture decision papers and past experience as a developer.

Expert at interpreting business needs and applying innovative technology solutions.

Proven track record mentoring junior team members and adept at collaborating with remote teams across time zones

Experience with SW development processes (Agile and Waterfall).

Ability to liaise with and advise Technology leadership and POs in all aspects of application design and development.

Technical Skills

Deep understanding of DDD, distributed systems design, integration patterns, microservices architecture, Cloud native, UML.

Taking a product from inception through requirements, design, development, implementation readiness, and maintenance.

Demonstrable experience designing and building high throughput, low latency applications using microservices, containers, distributed databases, Kafka.

Proven ability to perform trade-off analysis between scalability, security, resiliency, availability in designing distributed systems by applying domain expertise, practical experiments and Proof of Concepts (POCs).

Ensure adherence to the architecture governance processes and compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.

Technical leadership and exposure across a broad scale of tools, technologies, and architecture models.

Manage multiple development designs and projects concurrently to meet required timelines.

Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or other CSP.