Solutions Architect for Consumer Lending & Credit Underwriting Technology

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment designing for client resiliency assisting with solution design and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business strategic objectives evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Works across the business operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business Application Data and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture assists with system design to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions leads the design of complex architectures and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain practical experiments and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible modular and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices standardization strategies and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example security performance maintainability scalability usability and reliability)
• This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment designing for client resiliency assisting with solution design and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business strategic objectives evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions and contributing to the architecture roadmap.
• The senior solutions Architect is accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements in support of a given portfolio. The Solution Architect will be accountable for partnering with key roles (e.g. business users POs business analysts FLs etc.) to create solutions that are aligned to the architecture principles leverage common solutions and services and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits). Within the solution development lifecycle this role will be accountable for solution evaluation and selection buy vs. build decisions and early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case. They will provide consulting during the detailed design build test and deploy phases and will be reengaged to perform benefits realization.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of applicable experience
• Proven experience architecting and designing solutions for large-scale complex technology portfolios ideally within audit risk or compliance domains.
• Deep expertise in modern architecture patterns (microservices event-driven cloud-native) AI/ML integration and risk management.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills with a track record of influencing cross-functional teams and driving innovation.
• Technical leadership and exposure across a broad scale of tools technologies and architecture models.
• Experience with Agile delivery DevOps practices and rapid prototyping.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commitment to quality security and continuous improvement.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

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