Solution Architect V

Essential responsibilities

• Primarily accountable for the solution architecture for all Digital products.
• Responsible for identifying and verifying appropriate application solutions and driving the entire technical design - including functional, integration, data, and infrastructure design, in order to deliver durable, high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.
• Partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering teams to establish architectural plans across multiple solution areas, in consideration of product roadmaps.
• Deliver clear, pragmatic solutions with applicability to meet immediate business needs.
• Evaluate, design, document, and establish technical protocols and standards for use within the enterprise.
• Frequently serves as a technology consultant to senior leaders and represents the Digital technology team for partner/vendor discussions.
• Aligns solution architecture with enterprise architecture strategy & roadmap, and demonstrates consistent frameworks & standards.
• Assist team in achieving high degrees of automation using well-established DevOps and Agile practices.
• Ensure that technical solutions are aligned with Enterprise Architecture and applications and systems are built for uninterrupted availability, meet performance requirements, future extensibility, multiple system integrations, long-term growth, and low-maintenance support.
• Ensure quality standards are carried out throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Assist in driving cloud-first enterprise strategy.
• Mentor technical resources to help them take full ownership of implementing the solution design.
• Participate and advise during backlog planning and prioritization.
• Regularly reevaluate existing solutions to keep them up to date with modern standard methodologies.

What would make us excited about you

• Effectively lead priorities, work you're doing, and timelines with little need for partner concern.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships and partnerships with key business systems stakeholders.
• Provide strong end-to-end leadership in the definition and build-out of solutions as part of project teams.
• Provide technical leadership to drive the continued adoption of DevOps and cloud enterprise solutions.
• Drive best practices in Site Reliability Engineering and ensure Secure, Scalable, Performant, and Highly Available Service.
• Relentlessly introduce new ways of improving & scaling digital applications.
• Identify, plan, and implement improvements to deployment/release pipelines.
• Strong customer relationship, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding oral, written, presentation, and listening communication skills.
• Effective decision-making skills, even under pressure and while lacking all of the desired information detail.
• Ability to communicate your ideas and solutions in simple language tailored to the audience.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
• Experience working with applications in a hybrid environment of On-Premise, Cloud, and SaaS.
• Experience with AWS technologies, Serverless, containers and orchestration, continuous delivery, and DevOps best practices.
• Experience with highly transactional accounts and payment-related websites.
• Experience supporting sophisticated systems with significant integration points and external Third-Party systems through APIs.
• Ability to work within shifting priorities and tight timelines.
• Be a lifelong learner who takes initiative to continuously improve skills.
• Have the ability and willingness to "get hands dirty" and write code when appropriate.
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript, Typescript, and Node.
• Ability to architect solutions using REACT & other SPA frameworks.