Solutions Architect: III (Senior)
Job DescriptionJob Description
Solutions Architect: III (Senior)
Location: Quincy, MA 02169
Description:
- As a Solution Architect for Consumer Banking and Channels Architecture utilizes his/her expertise to recommend operational strategies and plans for the Solutions Architecture function with direct impact on company and IT results.
- S/he manages most strategic Consumer Banking Architecture accounts and communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance; influencing business decision made by leadership.
- In addition, s/he evaluates and takes in care of the compliance with the organization's technology standards and works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.
Responsibilities:
- Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segments
- Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs
- Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department
- Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance
- Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations
- Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps
- Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, allowing individual business units to innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage
- Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners
- Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization.
- Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines
- Influences business decisions made by leadership
- Leads, guides, and mentors' best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies
- Candidate will perform comprehensive discovery analysis and definition of client issues and documents implementation in the form of a technical ("blue print") solution.
- Determine how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs
- Act as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases, throughout the entire life cycle of the product.
- Complete current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.
- Combine exceptional interpersonal skills, technical aptitude and creative thinking to consult with prospective and existing clients to understand their business needs, map those needs to Santander solutions, requirements.
Duration:
- Possibility of extensions and/or full-time employment
Location:
- Hybrid position in Boston, MA Quincy Office
- 2-3 days a week onsite
- Not open to fully remote candidates
Must Have Skills:
- 10 years of experience with 7+ years acting in solution architecture position
- Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience
- Experience working with applications with significant traffic like, AWS, APIs, Events (Kafka / MQ / Event Bridge), ReactJS / Java
- Restful APIs, API-led design
- Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, IVR, Banking Customer Service Call Center, Payments
- Integration design experience
- Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram
- Cybersecurity concepts: MFA, best practices, encryption standards, device biometrics
- Cybersecurity risk assessment
- AWS / Genesys Cloud or IVR Services / Security best practices / Microsoft Dynamics / Oracle / Events (MQ / Kafka) / Java
- Excellent communication, team player, proactive
- Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Business owners
- Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with technical owners
Plusses:
- Fluency in Spanish is not required but nice to have
Rounds of Interviews:
- 2 Rounds
Company DescriptionCrossword is built on a foundation of entrepreneurship and fueled by an innate drive toward expansion, innovation, and creativity. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking and welcome individuality with open arms. Each member of our team brings a unique skillset and point of view, and we empower each other to maximize our collective thinking.
At our core, Crossword is a family. We foster an empathetic, open environment based on trust and mutual respect. Our priority will always be nurturing internal and external relationships – we support each other through hardships and celebrate our victories. We believe in acting with compassion, consideration, and a charitable spirit in all of our endeavors. This philosophy contributes to our high retention rates of employees and clients.Company DescriptionCrossword is built on a foundation of entrepreneurship and fueled by an innate drive toward expansion, innovation, and creativity. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking and welcome individuality with open arms. Each member of our team brings a unique skillset and point of view, and we empower each other to maximize our collective thinking.\r\n\r\nAt our core, Crossword is a family. We foster an empathetic, open environment based on trust and mutual respect. Our priority will always be nurturing internal and external relationships – we support each other through hardships and celebrate our victories. We believe in acting with compassion, consideration, and a charitable spirit in all of our endeavors. This philosophy contributes to our high retention rates of employees and clients.