Cloud Solutions Architect

Title: Cloud Solutions Architect

Location: Merrimack NH or Smithfield RI

Duration: 12 months

MOI: High chances that the final round will be onsite.

Looking for Visa Independent Consultant

Top Priority / Non-Negotiable Requirements

• 6 10 years of Solution Architecture experience with end-to-end solution ownership
• Strong AWS Cloud Architecture experience
• Technical leadership and stakeholder management experience
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Enterprise architecture experience (APIs integrations data architecture security)
• Large enterprise experience (Financial Services Banking Insurance Telecom Fortune 500 etc.)
• Software development background (Java/Spring preferred)
• Agile and DevOps experience
• Ability to quickly ramp up and work independently

Preferred

• Financial Services / Wealth Management domain experience
• AWS certification
• Azure cloud experience

Red Flags

• Limited or no Solution Architecture experience
• No AWS Cloud Architecture experience
• No technical leadership or stakeholder-facing experience
• Startup-only background
• Infrastructure-only Architect background
• No end-to-end solution ownership experience
• Weak communication skills

Job descriiption

They lead domain architecture for key Institutional Wealth Management platform capabilities spanning platform data reporting integrations and client experience services. My scope includes billing and data-sharing solutions reporting platforms security and governance and client service enablement capabilities such as digital service workflows automation and straight-through processing. He has been a part of FIT and then split into IWMS and then now they are back within FIT. They are doing this as the Mainframe Organization Modernization Initiative. This is architecture work working with Primarily cloud (AWS) platforms and need a few years in Architecture role. They need someone who can hit the ground running within a few weeks of starting. They dont need mainframe experience for this role they have support there. They need to create end to end solutions so this has a leadership component to the role as well. Because they will be articulating with development and leadership teams. Putting this simply they need a candidate with experience as a solution architect with a tech background (java or other languages dont matter) but in that architectural space for 6 to 10 years. They need strong exposure to cloud service providers. They need to have a security first mindset. Need to be great communicators. Something that is nice to have is a financial domain background. Or other large companies startups wont be a good culture fit.

The Role

The Solution Architect will play a hands-on role driving the overall technical architecture and being responsible for the end-to-end solution architecture within the Institutional Wealth Management Services (IWMS) space. They will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors Agile Squads and Peer Architects while driving the IWMS digital modernization efforts. The Solution Architects focus is enabling and accelerating the delivery of our squads by creating highly reliable scalable solutions that deliver key business value.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

10 years of industry experience in architecture analytics design and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms frameworks and languages.

Ability to provide technical leadership prepare design artifacts and implement solutions for agile teams. You will drive the end-to-end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners agile teams and architecture leadership.

Ability to engage with multiple squads to deliver architecture artifacts drive issue resolution wellness plans and product roadmaps.

Ability to analyze business direction understand the long-term vision and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation selection recommendation and configuration.

Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners architects and technical leads for individual products and applications. Partner with peer architects to find opportunities to refactor business processes improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.

Demonstrated and extensive knowledge of APIs UIs infrastructure data architecture security and new technologies.

Demonstrated expert understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.

Demonstrated software development experience with expertise in client-side technologies (Angular/React JavaScript/TypeScript HTML CSS) and strong experience using Java Java EE/Jakarta EE Spring Framework/Spring Boot and web application technologies.

Ability to work both independently and with all levels of the organization including technical and non-technical team members.

Passion for technology not limiting yourself to a set of languages or frameworks.

Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.

Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence.

Experience in cloud technologies and practices building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred