Manager - Soution Architecture - Randstad USA

- Chicago Tribune Best Place to Work!

- Pension

- Bonus

- 401kmatch

- Amazing benefits

- 11 paid holidays

- 3 weeks PTO

What you can expect:

• Provide management and oversight to a team of Solution Architects and contract Solution Architects.
  
  
• Provides technical leadership and strategic direction on Solutions Architecture at the Bank.
  
  
• Ensure alignment with the designs and architectures of solutions for individual projects and across programs.
  
  
• Partner with Enterprise Architects to conduct solution evaluations and make recommendations for improvements.
  
  
• Interface directly with Product Owners to help gather product and process requirements, turning them into technology delivery targets and provide technical guidance to help reach these targets, delivering product goals.
  
  
• Collaborate and embed with project managers, analysts and development teams to ensure timely delivery.
  
  
• Continually research optimal ways to leverage current and emerging technologies.
  
  
• Work with Solution Architects to solve challenges issues with in-flight technical solutions.
  
  
• Review solution and technical architectures to ensure they align with existing architecture principles, standards, and patterns.
  
  
• Identify areas of improvement for architecture artifacts and existing or future solution designs.
  
  
• Participate in planning and estimation activities for relevant projects, enhancement, and maintenance.
  
  
• Model business and systems processes based on findings through use case scenarios, journeys, workflow diagrams, and data flows.
  
  
• Ensure that applications meet business requirements and systems goals.
  
  
• Develop and maintain common business domain knowledge (business, technology & data in common).
  
  
• Partner with development to ensure reusable, API delivered domain services that provide a common integration point internally to the Bank while also insulating the Bank from broad impact of external partner changes (integrate once, leverage many principle).
  
  
• Foster domain service centered data capture for transactions and master data.
  
  
• Stay current on technology changes applicable to your domain(s) and how to apply them to Bank initiatives.
  
  
• May assist authoring budget proposals and operational expenditure statements.
  
  
• Lead critical design and architectural discussions and decisions.
  
  
• Guide & assist preparing direct reports for Architecture governance process requirements, artifacts, technical debt tracking and risk mitigation.
  
  
• Other responsibilities as required.

What you'll bring:

• Minimum 10 years' experience managing technical teams.
  
  
• Minimum 5 years' experience as an Enterprise or Solutions architect
  
  
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Finance, Banking, Treasury Operations or Capital Markets
  
  
• Expert work knowledge of technical personnel management
  
  
• Expert work knowledge of solutions architecture and architecture principles
  
  
• Expert work knowledge implementing software designs.
  
  
• Extensive experience in developing strategic systems architecture plans.
  
  
• Experience modeling system diagrams, functional processes, insultating systems with APIs and APIs between domains
  
  
• Working knowledge with financial concepts such as loans, securities, and derivatives
  
  
• Working knowledge of Domain Driven Design
  
  
• Working knowledge of software design patterns
  
  
• Working knowledge of current FinTech providers and capabilities
  
  
• Can manage conflict and constructively resolve issues.
  
  
• Can adapt to change and rally personnel around change.
  
  
• strong presentation skills and audience adaptability
  
  
• Ability to translate and convey difficult technical subject matter to non-technical stakeholders.
  
  
• Ability to present ideas in non-technical language.
  
  
• strong written and oral communication skills
  
  
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