Solutions Architect
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$ 130000 - 150000
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This job is located at: 814 Commerce Drive Oak Brook IL 60523
PLS Overview:
Why PLS Because You Deserve Better! PLS which stands for People Location Service is a leading retail provider of financial services. The P comes first because our customers are at the center of everything we do and we recognize that its our exceptional team members who go above and beyond every day. The PLS Group headquartered in Chicago is comprised of over 200 financial service centers in 12 states. Through our check cashing stores we provide consumers with convenient financial products and services to help them manage their daytoday financial needs. Although many of our customers have banking relationships we believe that our customers use our financial services because they are convenient transparent and frequently more affordable than available traditional alternatives. PLS was founded in 1997 by Bob and Dan Wolfberg who serve as CoPresidents.
Position Overview:
Solutions Architect is a key leadership role at PLS responsible for designing critical enterprise solutions. The candidate will lead the architecture and design of software using technologies including Artificial Intelligence to improve and extend our Azure microservices architecture and expand our capabilities with a focus on customer impact. This person will leverage expertise in solution design and strong design patterns as well as drive innovation through ProofofConcept development.
This person will collaborate with team members across the enterprise IT organization and business units to design solutions that are aligned with our overall business and technology strategies. They will work closely with appropriate business partners in developing technology solution approaches evaluating products and setting standards and guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Architect and design microservice solutions for desktop mobile and web in a predominately Microsoft stack environment with a focus on functionality data security integration infrastructure and performance.
- Define and implement proofofconcepts for proving new technologies and/or design patterns.
- Provide reference model reference architecture and reference implementation for various domains along with frameworks to promote standardization across the enterprise.
- Build and maintain the currentstate and futurestate applications architecture views for the enterprise
- Advocate and enforce best practices principles and standards for performance reliability scalability security and reusability at an enterprise scale.
- Participate on the architecture board to provide governance and build processes to guide and sanction critical architectural decisions.
- Monitor technology trends and determine potential impact and implications to our businesses and systems.
- Serve as a technical leader and motivator on crossfunctional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development in an agile software development environment.
- Mentor and coach junior IT resources.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Programming Engineering or a related discipline with an advanced degree preferred or its equivalent
- Proven experience designing solutions and applications across multiple technology domains.
- 8 years of proven experience developing and integrating enterprisescale software products and solutions particularly focused on distributed and realtime systems
- 3 years of experience preferred working in a business and/or technology consulting role
- Indepth knowledge of diverse technologies covering front end (Web / Mobile) middleware persistence layer within the Microsoft stack
- Experience in the design and development of Enterprise and Mobile Applications (Native Hybrid Web)
- Experience in the design and development of cloudnative and onprem distributed applications that leverage Microservice Architecture REST APIs API Gateways relational and NoSQL storage and loosely coupled messaging
- Experience implementing solutions using Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches leveraging enterprise service bus with security service registry and governance in place
- Strong understanding of DomainDriven Design
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure or AWS) and SaaS architectures
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery CI/CD concepts and tools
- Understanding of security and networking concepts a plus
- Ability to quickly perform proofofconcepts for validating new technology or approach
- Ability to work in a fastpaced dynamic environment and provide support across all phases of SDLC
- Good grasp of various software development lifecycle methodologies (Waterfall RUP Agile)
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time
- Ability to lift 15 lbs
- Ability to travel on occasion
Benefits:
Benefits for eligible team members include medical/dental/vision 401(k) vacation opportunities for advancement and ongoing training.
We strive to demonstrate our Core Values in all positions at PLS:
Communication Customer Focus Integrity and Trust Teamwork Results
PLS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability marital status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. PLS is a drugfree workplace. PLS provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process please notify your Recruiter or a member of our Human Resources team at to make arrangements. The decision on granting accommodation will be made on a casebycase basis.
For jobs located in the City of Los Angeles consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment
Illinois Pay Band
$130000 $150000 USD
Employment Type
Full Time
