Architect/Design jobs encompass a range of career paths focused on planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of buildings, spaces, and environments. These roles require a blend of creativity and technical knowledge, often involving skills in drawing, 3D modeling, and understanding of materials and construction methods. Architects and designers must consider aesthetics, function, safety, and sustainability, tailoring projects to meet the needs of clients and users while adhering to regulatory requirements. These positions often involve collaboration with engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure that the envisioned designs are feasible and successfully realized.
Architect/Design jobs involve the creation and planning of the aesthetic and functional aspects of buildings and structures. These professionals draft blueprints, choose materials, and oversee construction processes, balancing creativity with technical skill. Key characteristics include a strong sense of design, attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to visualize concepts. They often collaborate with engineers and contractors, ensuring that the final product aligns with clients' requirements while adhering to safety regulations and sustainability practices.
They are responsible for providing leadership for innovative solutions to ensure capability delivery, standardization, maturity, and enhanced application functionality. Responsibilities: Leadership of application design efforts, subject matter development, including reference architectures and controls in support of governance guidelines, standards and best practices.
Responsible for the enhancement of our client's enterprise development designs and ensuring that applications are optimal, accurate, efficient, and secure. Establish and evolve development standards and processes to support the company's needs, and criteria for backssing and bringing new technologies into our client. Collaborate
closely with the application owners, data stewards, and the technology, risk, and business members to ensure alignment of the policies and standards. Interface with the lines of business, PMO, all levels of management, technical staff, vendors, and others with minimal supervision to achieve project goals and initiatives.
Collaborate with audit and governance teams to ensure that work meets internal and external inspection and audit requirements. Lead efforts for developing/enhancing business application requirements, related functional requirements, testing and quality determinations. Help to ensure that applications meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill requirements,
and identify and resolve systems issues. Review and analyze existing application effectiveness and efficiency, and then develop strategies for improving or leveraging solutions.
Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application-usage best practices. Analyze documentation and technical specifications of any new solution under consideration to determine its intended functionality. Ensure that any new software integration meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications. Contribute to pre-testing phase of development by evaluating proposals to identify potential problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations. Liaise with vendors, clients, project delivery, operational teams and management as necessary.
Assure compliance with all policies and procedures, as well as all applicable state and federal banking regulations. Develop work plans and track/report status of assigned projects/tasks. Assist with or participate on special/strategic projects/initiatives, when necessary. Perform other duties as assigned. Required Skills and Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience Must have 5+ years' experience in technology supporting business application systems and/or systems management.
Prior banking and/or financial services industry experience highly preferred. Must have 5+ years of architecture design with mission critical, high transaction volume systems. Demonstrated experience with On-Prem as well as Cloud systems such as Software as a Service (Saa S) and Platform as a Service (Paa S) Must have demonstrated understanding of the banking business and how technology solutions impact the Bank and business areas both tactically and strategically. Must have proven experience in helping with the direction, development, and implementation of software solutions in a highly regulated industry.
Must have working knowledge of APIs, microservices, databases, security, performance & scalability Strong experience with a variety of backend and frontend development technologies and frameworks Proven experience in understanding complex business problems and implementing holistic solutions to improve business processes. Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies. Ability to understand business vision and strategy to define an architecture that is implementable in a practical manner with minimal risk Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
Good written and verbal communications skills Working knowledge and experience of Demand Management Demonstrates the ability to create and build a " value added" and effective relationship with the businesses that IT services. An understanding of business case analysis and use of ROI in funding projects. Experience with many of the top banking software vendors and actual implementation of their products.
