2 new Enterprise Architects. This is the same level as a Director in most companies. For these roles they need to come from Banking, Financial Services or FinTec.
Target comp in Tempe AZ is 193K, Santa Clara 241K, Texas and Atlanta 200K Bonus – 35%
Skills likely to generate interview:
Bank or fintech vertical
AWS, API, Microservices, Security, Data
Please ask the questions below over the phone and keep the tape. I want to send the tape along with the resume to Laura so she can evaluate their communication skills.
Domain and Enterprise Architect Pre-Screen Questions -
- What are the differences b/w Paas, Saas and IaaS
- Explain the main subdomains of a finance tech landscape for a commercial bank
- Is there a vendor tech that “rules them all” and can cater for all subdomains or should we use best in breed?
Needs to be either US Citizen or have a green card as usual. Please help.
Enterprise Architect
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.
The role requires the ability to work with the IT team, Product teams, Business teams, as well as C-level executives to demonstrate value proposition for core banking digital transformation. This includes assessing the current application and infrastructure environment, performing a gap analysis, and recommending the to-be enterprise application architecture. As an enterprise architect, you will be required to represent deep expertise on modernization and transformation of mission critical applications needing re-architecture, not just containerization/refactoring. You will use your knowledge of legacy platforms as well as new cloud-native banking solutions, cloud application architecture and best practices, hybrid cloud architecture, API management, microservices, security, data modernization and cloud integration technologies to advise and drive core transformation journey.
We are seeking a candidate who has great breadth and depth of experience when it comes to the banking application landscape, especially in the core banking space of deposits, lending, credit, and finance as well ability to evangelize and present as various forums and conferences.
About the role:
· Define strategy with respect to enterprise related standards and design goals; provide technical design and architectural leadership, including documenting and diagramming the logical and physical, and process views across multiple technology domains.
· Responsible for providing technology leadership and oversight of the project portfolio. The portfolio may consist of multiple, cross-functional projects of varying complexities, in support of strategic business initiatives and regulatory requirements.
· Liaise with other teams including, but not limited to Business (LOBs), Enterprise Information Security, IT Delivery, Solutions Architects, Data Architects, Domain Architects, Risk, Operations, Corporate Function etc. for coordination on programs and projects.
· Facilitate organizational change by defining strategies for the banking clients with respect to technology standards, industry models and design goals; evaluate business requirements in the early stages of projects to determine what software, integration technologies, system architectures and patterns should be employed to meet business objectives efficiently; participate in the development of roadmaps, which include product selection, implementations, data migrations, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance.
· Identify and advise clients on emerging technology solutions in the retail and commercial banking businesses that reduce costs, increase efficiencies, provide more value, capabilities, reduce risks and increase security.
· Collaborate with project teams to lead solution design, project proposals, proof-of-concepts, and delivery of the solution implementation including integration with both internal and external applications
· Communicate best practices by giving presentations, working with project teams, and authoring content aimed at educating others about standards, strategies, and otherwise defined best practices
· Play a lead role in shaping and participating in The Company’s governance committees
About you:
· A crisp and passionate communicator with the ability to simplify, communicate, and sell his or her vision/ideas up, down, and across the organization.
· Highly developed interpersonal skills—someone who can be as effective through influence as through direct control.
· Strong believer in data-driven innovation: ship, measure, improve, repeat. Responsible for leading and driving teams to deliver market changing innovations, in bite size pieces.
· Experience working with a distributed team. Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
· Aware of technology and industry trends in order to introduce industry leading practices and technologies to the bank and align the specific technologies identified with the relevant business capabilities they support
Basic Qualifications:
· 5 years of Hands-on enterprise architecture framework experience (TOGAF, Zachman models, etc)
Nice to have Qualifications