Solutions Architect

About TRS

Since 1917 the Teachers Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) has been securing better futures for NYC educators. With a pension fund valued at approximately $123 billion TRS serves over 274000 members providing them with retirement disability and death benefit services.

At TRS we seek dedicated professionals who are passionate about their work and committed to excellence. We pride ourselves on our member-centric culture focused on delivering outstanding service and support to our members.

Position Summary

TRS is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Application Development this role you will play a key part in modernizing our public pension administration systems as we transition from legacy IBM midrange technologies to a modern Microsoft-based platform. This transformation leverages the Mendix low-code platform Sagitecs Neospin SQL Server and related technologies to deliver scalable agile and efficient enterprise applications.

As the Solution Architect you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including developers business analysts and product owners to design and implement robust responsive solutions. Your expertise will be critical in enhancing existing applications and architecting new features to support public pension administration.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the architecture design development and end-to-end implementation of custom features and enhancements using /C# Sagitec Neospin MS SQL Server and integration technologies (SOAP/REST APIs).
- Analyze business needs and create user stories evaluate options and recommend scalable secure cost-effective solutions aligned with industry best practices and TRS standards.
- Develop and maintain architecture/design guidelines ensuring built-in agility for rapid adaptation and maintenance.
- Integrate commercial off-the-shelf products with enterprise systems serve as a technical SME for third-party solutions and manage documentation upgrades and performance optimizations.
- Support ongoing maintenance enhancements production issues and proof-of-concepts for new tools/technologies.
- Collaborate in cross-functional teams to deliver iterative releases that meet evolving business requirements.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science information systems engineering mathematics or related field and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture solutions architecture network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and ten years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture solutions architecture network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time