Job Description

Solutions Architect

Jersey City, NJ 07070 (Hybrid Schedule)

Contract Opportunity

ONSITE INTERVIEW REQUIRED

Job Description:

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors/University degree
• 10+ years of overall relevant banking, financial services experience
• At least 10 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills
• Banking/Financial/Payment experience is a plus
• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions
• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures
• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles
• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate
• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams
• Passion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve products
• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits
• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels
• Consistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communication
• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plus
• Demonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teams
• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations
• Ability to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetings

Desired Skills & Experience

• Master's degree preferred
• Industry qualifications such as CFA, FRM will be a plus
• Knowledge of additional programming languages a plus.

What You Will Be Doing

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape
• Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.
• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state
• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis
• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams
• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.

Thank you!

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