Application Architect

Accountabilities:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

• Oversee migration and deployment projects, including those associated with any transition to new data processing or ML-Ops technologies.

• Develop and maintain architecture decisions, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.

• Maintain detailed documentation of architecture decisions, project plans, and operational procedures

• Partner with multiple teams Bank wide to collaborate on strategy and direction and apply to architecture and application design.

• Driving innovation that can bring business values, participating in building Proof of Concepts.

• Lead technical/design sessions and discussions, ensuring alignment with Fraud strategic goals and technical requirement.

• Ensure all solutions comply with security standards, such as PCI compliance for data tokenization.

• Assess and analyze business strategy & requirements, the current technical environment and technology options to evaluate solution alternatives that meet business needs and bank strategy.

• Present and leverage technical information and solutions in a way that establishes trust relationships, persuades stakeholders and achieves understanding and consensus at all levels.

• Designing architectural solutions, roadmaps and related strategies that are aligned to Enterprise Standards in the effort to modernization software applications.

• Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design and implementation

Education / Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline

• 7+ years of software engineering industry experience.

• 5+ years of experience in architecture design processes, creating reference architectures and architecture artifacts that guide design decisions related to applications, data, integration and infrastructure.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.

Cloud Computing:

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including managing resources and optimizing costs.

• Data processing tools/concepts such as Pub/Sub, Dataflows, Big Query, Cloud Storage, Kafka, MongoDB, Apache Flink.

• Hands-on experience in the system analysis, design, architecture of complex, multi-tier development & production environments involving:

• Microservices design

• Event driven architecture

• ETL and data solutions

• Domain driven design techniques

• Cloud platforms deployment

• System resiliency engineering

• Agile practices applied to a product team

Data Management:

• Expertise in managing large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing, including real-time and batch processing.

Security:

• Strong understanding of data security protocols, including encryption and tokenization.

• Experience ensuring compliance with security standards, including PCI compliance for data handling.

• Project Management:

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex migration and deployment projects.

• Proven experience leading technical sessions and making architecture decisions.

Collaboration:

• Experience working with diverse teams, including analytics, cloud operations, and cybersecurity.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical concepts and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Documentation:

• Strong background in maintaining detailed documentation of technical decisions and project plans.

• Familiarity with fraud detection and prevention systems and technologies