Application Architect Dallas TX and Jersey City NJHybrid

Senior: Application Architect

Location: OR Dallas TX and Jersey City NJ(Hybrid)

Type W2

Contract Long term

Description:

The impact you will have in this role:

Responsible for creating communicating and facilitating alignment to enterprisewide application architecture technology strategy and standards architecture and design principals guidelines and common solutions. Responsible for advancing application architecture in support of business and IT strategy and developing roadmaps and blueprints to ensure architecture goals are met in both tactical and strategic frames. Collaborates with a broad range of team members including business Application Development risk domains operations OCIO etc. to assure solutions efficiently address a wide range of functional and nonfunctional requirements vital to uphold the rand image and meet industry needs.

You will require to have highly sophisticated technical skills in multiple technical domains along with demonstrated ability to master new technical domains to a level sufficient to contribute to the technology strategy vision requirements and solutions for largescale initiatives or as needed. Exceptional teamwork communication and leadership skills particularly the ability to influence are vital to being effective in this position. Specialized knowledge of applications and/or financial industry post trade solutions is a significant differentiator among candidates. Candidates who lack such knowledge will be expected to rapidly develop financial industry post trade domain knowledge. Position requires highly advanced analytical skills and demonstrated leadership capability.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Solutions Architecture

Understand business needs and IT strategy and assets to identify optimal solution architecture appropriate to business needs and technology context

Understand implementation context and team capabilities to provide appropriate guidance for team to successfully implement solution architecture

Work with a range of collaborators to assure solution architecture enables solution team to address the needs of all stakeholders

Assist with earlystage solution development including contributing to business cases and estimation

Assist with project execution including input to project planning and risk identification

Assist with closure including assessing and helping managing risks to closure

Application Architecture Practice

Research leading ideas methodologies and technology to enable superior delivery capabilities.

Develop business analysis / business case for adoption of changes in application architecture practices

Assist compliance and governance when adopting new practices as well as partnering in development of appropriate governance for new technologies and application architecture practices

Application Architecture

Drafts conceptual and logical architecture specifications at both the enterprise and project level

Assists project teams and Product Managers when documenting new functionality to assure compliance with projectappropriate enterprise processes (SDLC/Waterfall Agile DevOps)

Assist during system design with the drafting of logical architectural models

Assist to promote the efficient reuse of IT assets

Advises project team during system development to assure compliance with architectural principles guideline and standards

Shares architectural vision with stakeholders through informal discussion and formal presentations

Ensures application designs meet the architectural blueprint for business applications

Provides technical mentorship to multifunctional crossplatform application development teams

Technology Architecture

Contributes to the technology strategy vision requirements and solutions for largescale domain specific initiatives

Contributes to buy vs. build analyses of proposed business solutions

Identifies understands and documents extensions to and variants from architectural guidelines

Promotes the development of and alignment to processes which assure consistent methods for development of new or enhanced business capabilities by:

Representing the Domain to interested management committees

Interacting with the Architecture Office to help define publish and maintain processes for compliance to architectural principles guidelines and standards

Interacting with the Architecture Office to help define publish and maintain processes for software development and deployment evaluation and selection of thirdparty products and retirement of obsolete technologies.

Application Design & Development

Works with OCIO and developers to determine software and hardware requirements and for planning and delivering business solutions

Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and costeffective solution for system design

Analyzes and assists with estimation feasibility cost time and compatibility with platform and other programs

Provides senior level consulting services to augment team skills and provide handson education

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience

10 years handson experience in application development

5 years in leadership roles (team lead design lead line manager etc.

Talents Needed for Success:

Possess a detailed understanding of common software implementation methodologies (Waterfall Agile)

Technical skills include current leading technologies particularly Web and Cloud related technologies

Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes technology changes and client businesses relevant to the Domain

Demonstrates sophisticated analytical skills

Demonstrates advanced verbal visual and written communication skills in technical domains

Demonstrates leadership skills particularly softskills and ability to influence

Securities industry background preferred

Years of experience in posttrade processing of global financial transactions is a huge plus