Enterprise Architect – Credit – Santa Clara, Tempe, Austin, Charlotte, Atlanta, Utah

Make Next Happen Now. For more than 30 years, The Company has helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. The Company provides targeted financial services and expertise through its offices in innovation centers across the world. With commercial, international and private banking services, The Company helps address the unique needs of innovators. 

Our business is undergoing transformation and shift towards using public cloud and we need experienced architects to help us in moving the monolithic systems to modern cloud-based solutions. 

As a Credit Domain Subject Matter Expert, you will be responsible, partnering with The Company’s product and business teams in this space on multiple fronts and become a trusted advisor to these groups:

·     Creating domain architecture roadmaps and vision maps 

·     Strategic initiatives within the domain and initiatives where Credit is playing a key role in  

·     Help drive Credit Business cases  

·     Prioritization discussions within portfolios and across  

·     Bring domain related knowledge to the table and inject ideas and industry trends and best practices 

Collaborate with other architects in the organization (Solutions Architects, Data Architects, Enterprise Architects etc.) and engineers on specific solutions related to the credit domain. Align with other stakeholders in The Company (Security, Privacy, Legal) to ensure compliance to The Company standards.  

Be a key contributor on architectural governance, decisions related to projects, and participate as part of a cross functional architecture decision group both collaboratively within Intel and as an externally regarded leader in the space. 

About the role: 

·     Be the credit domain expert in The Company and the one-stop shop for technical and non-technical teams to have strategic and tactical discussions related to the credit domain  

·     Understanding of the technologies, the data model and the access patterns. 

·     In collaboration w/ Solution architects, research and identify the right tools and technology stack based on scalability, latency and performance needs. 

·     In collaboration w/ Solution architects, assess technical feasibility by building rapid PoCs, find technological solutions for gaps, and create strategic IP as necessary. 

·     Work closely with User Experience designers and product owners to translate specs into consumer facing functionality 

·     Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams, product managers, designers, user researchers, business unit managers, marketing executives, and customers. 

·     Be well versed in taking teams from legacy to modern architecture in production 

·     Ability to learn and master new business domain to drive the right design 

Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment and achieve results amidst constraints. 

About you: 

·     Expert in the credit domain in the US and preferably other geographies (explicitly EMEA)  

·     Proven experience in building solution using AWS platform. 

·     Understand containerization (Kubernetes based) and orchestration solutions including OpenShift, EKS/Fargate 

·     Deep understanding of best design and software engineering practices – design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security, privacy, identity protection. 

·     Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. 

·     Leading solutions with a strong focus on security, performance and scalability. Hands on experience with TDD is a plus. 

·     Experience with Security, Privacy, Identity concepts is a plus. 

·     Experience working in FinTechs & with different banking applications is a strong plus 

·     Experience working with Data assets such as MDM, EDW and Data Lake is a plus 

·     Ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms for all levels of organization 

·     Experience working with a distributed team 

·     Your heart at the right place, good sense of humor, live our values, and ability to form connections with the people you work with 

Basic Qualifications: 

·     Bachelors Degree in CS, EE or equivalent 

·     At least 7+ years of software development, solutions architect, or architect experience 

·     At least 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise systems 

·     At least 5+ years of experience in application architecture, design patterns, and cloud patterns  

·     At least 2+ years of experience as a domain architect or a principal architect in the credit space 

·     Experience w/ architecting credit solutions in a commercial bank is a must 

·     Excellent understanding of the business and product aspects of the credit world 

·     Experience in interacting w/ senior leadership, including to C-suite 

·     Extraordinary communication and presentation skills. 

Nice to have Qualifications 

·     Masters Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field 

·     Experience with architectural patterns, building APIs and microservices. 

·     Building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems including AWS, GCP or Azure 

·     Architecting highly scalable and reliable back-end systems in production 

·     Experience speaking in conferences and other industry forums  

·     Experience and knowledge of consumer credit (private banking, retail or fintech