Senior It Architect

• Serve as lead or technical expert to define and maintain the architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards and guidelines related to systems, business or data architecture. Align approach with broader architecture vision.
• Partner with business stewards to define performance metrics for target architecture(s); Promote and educate stakeholders on the use and value of optimized architecture(s)
• Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to the various development teams including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various development technologies and decisions.
• Identify core common data shared across the enterprise and participate in enterprise wide efforts to reach common understanding of those data.
• May serve as lead, technical expert or project manager to team(s) concerned with development, networking and/or project management to coordinate changes and support enterprise technology initiatives.
• Conduct studies of new technologies to provide more efficient and cost effective architecture solutions
• Oversee multiple projects in order to preserve the architectural vision and protect stakeholder interests as well as to meet operational and financial reporting requirements
• Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints
• Create performance metrics and traceability maps to determine the effectiveness of architecture solutions and facilitate governance.
• Keep abreast of relevant architecture best practices. May review work of other team members and mentor junior architects.  

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required 

• 8+ years of related experience 

• Demonstrated expertise in financial industry, information architecture and visual design, bringing concepts to life
• Experience reviewing requirements to create a solution design based on target state technology blueprint
• Significant hands on, combined, relevant hands on experience with Java, Web Services, XML and Tibco
• Experience with tcServer, Spring, Messaging, Data/Object Caching, Liferay, Alfresco, Business Rules, IBM Lombardi, iLog, vFabric, Eclipse, STS, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, Oracle, SQL Server preferred
• Stay up to date with technology changes to recommend updates to target state technology blueprint as needed for economic efficiencies in building and maintaining long-term technology solutions
• Governance experience (working closely with the solution delivery teams to ensure adherence to the design)
• Ability to develop high-level technical design, patterns as well as any user experience designs and wireframes, working collaboratively with other teams to drive consensus as needed
• Experience with design reviews to ensure the final solution presented to the Initiative Owner has been verified by all stakeholders
• Experience with resolving design/architecture related performance issues.
• Experience with Vendor Management

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