Solution Architect

job summary:

• Serve in the role of a Solution Architect within Data, Analytics & Insight Technology organization.
• Architect will support a variety of initiatives across the data and analytics domain within Consumer, Small Business & Wealth Management Technology.
• The Solution Architect will support business initiatives and strategic efforts that focus on building and leveraging information assets to improve sales and service activities for our business partners.
• The supported efforts will involve providing technical leadership for a broad set of data solutions spanning traditional data environments (RDBMS, ETL, etc.) as well as on big data technologies. The Solution Architect will have the following responsibilities:
• Drive conceptual and logical architecture design for new initiatives
• Develop standards, patterns, best practices for reuse and acceleration
• Ensure initiatives are adhering to strategic architecture principles
• Work with business partners to translate functional requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to provide technical recommendations and trade-offs to address business needs and timelines and drive to resolution
• Participate in cross-functional, cross-discipline architecture teams to enhance / set the architectural direction for key business initiatives
• Participate in the continued definition of our target Strategies
• Serve as a fully seasoned, technically proficient resource; routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities as a team member or as an individual contributor.
• Will not have direct-reports but will influence and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations.
• Influence, Negotiate and Lead technology alternative evaluations and implementations across the Technology and Line of Business organizations

• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience working on data solutions within a data ecosystem
• Hands-on experience in designing, building and implementing analytical environments and business intelligence solutions
• Hand-on experience with ETL tools, technologies and development methodologies
• Understanding of large scale batch processing
• Understanding of large analytical environments, with many stakeholders, users, different (conflicting) sets of requirements, technology stacks
• Understanding of conceptual, logical and physical data modeling
• Ability to provide technical recommendations and trade-offs to address business needs and timelines
• Understanding and experience with web services, APIs and micro-services design and architecture
• Ability to create and drive the implementation of enterprise-level technology strategies
• Ability to create pragmatic, strategic technology alternatives which deliver short-term results while contributing to long-term strategic direction
• Effectively Influence, Negotiate and Lead technology alternative evaluations and implementations across the Technology and Line of Business organizations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changes
• Effective negotiation and team facilitation skills

• Broad financial experience (3+ years) and good understanding of existing testing/operational processes
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience designing, building and implementing Big Data solutions in a Hadoop/other ecosystem Systems technology implementation Web services / APIs / micro-services Technical expertise with Spark, Map-reduce, HDFS, HIVE, Cloudera, HBase, Avro, Parquet or other big data technologies.
• Understanding of industry trends and vendor product positioning
• Solid understanding of finance industry domain and applications
• Understanding of architecture methods Understanding of service oriented architecture
• Understanding of relational databases, data modeling techniques
• Understand relevant application technologies and development life cycles
• Understanding of non functional requirements

• Drive conceptual and logical architecture design for new initiatives
• Develop standards, patterns, best practices for reuse and acceleration
• Ensure initiatives are adhering to strategic architecture principles
• Work with business partners to translate functional requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to provide technical recommendations and trade-offs to address business needs and timelines and drive to resolution
• Participate in cross-functional, cross-discipline architecture teams to enhance / set the architectural direction for key business initiatives
• Participate in the continued definition of our target Strategies

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors