Senior Solution Architect

JOB DETAILS

Role Description:

As a member of the BMO Harris Technology Strategy and Solutions team the Senior Solution Architect primarily

Leads endtoend technology solutions and highlevel designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with banks target architecture and standards for a business domain like Open Banking. (ISO 20022)

Drives technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas deposits cards payments operations customer experience analytics working with business and technology partners

Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domains to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems

Requires Skillset:

Solution architect who works with other architects including enterprise architects leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the banks target architecture and standards

o Solution Architect with the following experience:

All aspects of solution function/data placement end to end design & integration oversight

Able to relate to endtoend business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX

Data placement and data integration background

Strong application security/infrastructure & deployment exposure

Enterpriselevel Application Architecture

Experience with services management (web services REST Web API ESB messagebased) development integration and deployment

Previous Development experience (Cloud DevOps Agile)

o Multivendor integration design including infrastructure experience

o API design API Security digital/mobile architecture experience

o AI Insights Automation experience

Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus

o MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g. solution options sequence diagrams conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture etc.

o Resolve issues as they arise

Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options solution architecture highlevel endtoend design flow) collaborating with other technical leads

Assists with and contributes to function areaspecific target architecture transition architectures and technology roadmap

Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against BMO target architecture and standards to solve business problems

Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately

Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the C level

Banking solution experience is desirable

Understands or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g. AWS) technologies

Addition Info:

The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to 4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g. Channels Sales/Marketing/CRM Commercial Lending Collections)

15 years of IT experience with minimum 6 years of handson solution architecture experience for enterprisegrade applications

Not Looking For:

Hardcore developers for Java or .Net application coding

DBA Data modellers

Project or Program Manager

Business analyst Data analyst System Analyst or System Administrator

Typical DaytoDay Activities

Coordinate crossteam communication and facilitate reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums. Lead socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.

Facilitate and lead resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business operations and other technology team members

Identify and communicate risks (business application technical) asso