Banking Solutions Enterprise Architect
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: April 23, 2024
Job Description:
Job Title:Banking Solutions Enterprise ArchitectLocation:Block
23What you'll do:The Banking Solutions Enterprise Architect for
National Business Lines is accountable for the solution design,
architecture strategy and approach for providing solutions that
support our banking products and services in the National Business
Lines segment. This is a challenging role that requires an ability
to understand banking products and services and translate those
needs in to designs, that develop, orchestrate, and consume domain
specific or enterprise-wide capabilities. Strong strategic &
critical thinking skills, as well as communication and
collaboration skills are required, to develop relationships with
multiple segment & business partners, product managers, & product
engineering teams to enable value add capabilities and services for
our customers that support our growth trajectory.What we are
looking for:
- Understands drivers and capabilities across business units
within our National Business Lines segment to provide innovative
solutions leveraging technology to realize business value.
- Gain knowledge and understanding of the current state business
process, functional capabilities and technology eco-system
supporting the business.
- Assess domain maturity, develop architecture strategy, roadmap,
& designs for products & services supporting National Business
Lines platforms & capabilities.
- Develop artifacts, such as standards & patterns, that can be
leveraged to optimize buy vs. build decisions & make best use of
modern technology offerings from SaaS & Public Cloud
providers.
- Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the
practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Translates business and technical requirements into an
architectural blueprint to support & achieve business growth
objectives and documents all solution architecture design and
analysis work.
- Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market
trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise -
both in new product development and cost/capability
optimization.
- Assess use of cloud capabilities & develops integration
approaches to optimize the holistic environment & leverage the best
IP across the whole of the business.
- Facilitates and be part of the evaluation and selection of
software product standards and services, as well as the design of
standard and custom software configurations.
- Works closely with the product owners and product managers to
ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future
business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify
deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the
application.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills,
processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of solution
designs.
- Evangelizes & supports efforts to drive delivery functions
towards Agile & DevOps/FinOps delivery models.Qualifications:
- 15 years of related experience, with 5+ years leading IT
architecture and/or architecting & designing enterprise scale
applications, & 5+ years working in Financial Services
- Have a technology upbringing with strong software development
and design background. Full stack development experience is a
definite plus.
- Knowledge and experience with Cloud technologies; experience
with Azure technologies is preferred.
- Minimum of five years of experience working with an
architecture function with knowledge & experience developing
reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance
functions.
- Deep understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology
trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging
technologies to new and evolving business and operating
models.
- Understanding of product management, agile principles, and
development methodologies
- Significant experience developing architecture blueprints,
strategies, and roadmaps.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and is able
to develop content for & communicate with Executive Level
stakeholders as well as Engineering & Scrum teams.
- Ability to build trust and respect as a thought leader who can
influence and persuade business and IT leaders and development
teams.
- Objective mindset that is able to think 'enterprise first' and
remain unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice,
with decisions made based on data, analysis, & POC results.
- Ability to influence and work effectively in a cross-functional
teams environment.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology,
engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent
experience. Master's degree preferred.Benefits you'll love:We offer
all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an
ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time
off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an
employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition,
you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge,
learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and
manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to
help grow your career!About the company:Western Alliance Bank is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.
Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of
Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank
are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome
Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.Western Alliance
Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider
all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color,
religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected
veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic
information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to
working with and providing reasonable accommodations for
individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a
disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any
part of the application process and/or need an alternative method
of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call
602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact
information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We
will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a
reasonable accommodation in the application process.-- Western
Alliance Bancorporation
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