Federal Reserve Financial Services - Solution Architect/Senior Solution Architect - Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)

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Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. In 2020, we undertook a strategic effort to transform FRFS from a product and support office framework to a national, enterprise-focused organization. The enterprise structure integrated the prior retail, wholesale, cash, and customer relations product and support offices into a new organization, which was further joined by the FedNow team in early 2024. Our North Star strategy, with the new structure, is to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

We value the diversity of our people, ideas, and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive culture that is representative of the communities we serve.

As a Federal Reserve System National Business Line, it is standard practice to post FRFS positions in all twelve Districts to provide transparency and equitable opportunities for all FRS employees to apply. Internal candidate(s) selected for this position will remain employed by their current employing District and serve as an employee of FRFS. The selected candidate’s new job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing District and will continue to be subject to the employing District’s people policies and practices (i.e., remote/hybrid work posture, etc.).

We are a dynamic hybrid workplace environment.

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will be part of the Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) Solution Architecture team. The Architecture team has accountability for technology choices and solution design across multiple payment systems. You will be a technical leader responsible for researching, analyzing, proposing, and architecting requirements-based products and solutions that align with the business and technology needs of the enterprise by acting as a trusted partner to business. You will collaborate with partners, technology providers, security, and other architects to develop technology and information architectures, solution designs, strategies, and roadmaps for payment systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides architectural leadership, technology design expertise, direction, coordination, and consultation, in the development, integration, launch, scaling, and maintenance of new and existing solutions
• Partners with leadership to define and communicate long- term technology strategy and planning
• Contributes to the design, development and implementation of short- and long-term technical solutions through new and existing applications
• Consults on the most complex tasks or projects that require in- depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
• Provides technical solution architecture development, specifically regarding integration impact to other areas of the architecture including business, data and information, application, and technical architecture
• Participates as a technical expert to ensure the success of enterprise-wide application rollouts. Works closely with management and project leads to assist in planning development projects and ensuring that evolution of technical environment is consistent with project goals and schedules.
• Works with management at all levels to promote understanding of FRS distributed architecture and its role in supporting overall technical and business objectives.
• Communicates effectively in written documents and oral presentations, explaining concepts clearly to audiences at various levels of technical knowledge.
• Participates in the design of key solutions, ensuring they are coordinated with other internal or external enterprise business, information, and technology architecture
• Provides technical, strategic direction and architecture improvements to improve customer satisfaction, speed of development, cost of development, implementation, and ease of maintenance
• Assists with the strategic direction for application development approaches, including tools, process and frameworks
• Supports architectural initiatives that improve efficiency aligned with business strategy
• Works with other architects and technical staff to ensure optimal integration across platforms.
• Serves as a contact and/or participates in FRS workgroups, including National IT domain advisory groups.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred

Experience:

• Solution Architect: 7+ years in architecting, designing and engineering highly complex technology solutions across multiple diverse platforms requiring high performing, high volume transaction processing.
• Senior Solution Architect: 15+ years architecting, designing and engineering highly complex technology solutions across multiple diverse platforms requiring high performing, high volume transaction processing.

Qualifications:

• Experience as an architect / senior technical expert responsible for highly complex integration across diverse platforms in several of the following specialties:
• Experience building applications with multiple technologies and platforms
• Experience integrating enterprise-scale applications including 3rd party applications
• Familiarity and/or knowledge with implementing Cloud technology solutions with AWS and/or Azure
• Knowledge of fundamentals of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), data mining and statistical predictive modeling, and extensive experience applying these methods to real world problems
• Experience building, maintaining and updating microservice web applications and integrating with third-party systems
• Familiarity and/or knowledge with helping to build and foster DevOps culture and product ownership amongst development and operation teams
• Experience in researching, evaluating, and recommending emerging technologies for enterprise by establishing the business benefit associated with these new technologies
• Over 7 years of IT experience with hands-on experience in application/system/platform/data/security/integration architectures preferred
• Requires experience in multiple, large, cross- functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
• Experience with Java EE architecture and design using tools for areas such as web applications, web services, object persistence, messaging and event driven architectures.
• Experience with database design and data integration using multiple DBMS tools including integration with data migration, query, and report generation tools.
• Experience with information architectures knowledge and experience in the areas of data governance and business intelligence in a complex database environment with multiple DBMS and related BI technologies.
• Experience with information security controls (certification preferred). Basic level experience with implementing several of the following: security architecture and design, threat modeling, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, security vulnerabilities, remediation activities, and system/network security.

Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:

• Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• 401K match, and a fully funded pension plan
• Paid vacation and holidays; flexible work environment
• Generously subsidized public transportation
• Education Assistance Program
• Professional development programs, training and conferences
• And more…

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, rush jobs, change in workload or technological developments).

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.

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