IT Solutions Architect III

Location

324 N 4th Street, Indiana, PA 15701

Monday - Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM (Additional hours as necessary to meet the objectives of the department)

Administers compliance functions of the IT department under the guidance of the IT Solution Architect Manager and Information Technology Director. Manages projects for the deployment and integration of software systems. Collaborates on strategies to shape innovative solutions to meet critical business and technology challenges. Translates business and technical requirements and specifications into actionable project and product plans, unifying technical and business teams to drive the achievement of common goals.

Delivers highly scalable, impactful tools that advance the technical and business strategies of the bank. Provides system administration for targeted systems. Represents IT concerns and consideration in complex challenges and issues to develop creative solutions, insight, and recommendations.

• Coordinates and supports proper change management to meet regulatory/compliance changes required for systems, processes, customer/employee notification and/or internal education.
• Collaborates with IT management for the development of documented procedures and policies to support IT and security processes, including internal audit guidelines, hardening guidelines, and best practice guidelines.
• Applies knowledge of regulatory guidelines and industry best practices in making recommendations to mitigate risk associated with IT audit responses for the business line, including: tracks and updates IT audit templates to ensure compliance, assists in gathering audit request information, maintains audit artifacts to support validation of remediation efforts (including meeting minutes with Managed IT Provider), schedules review meetings as necessary to review progress of audit remediation, and maintains working knowledge of compliance regulations for IT.
• On a continuous basis, tracks ongoing vulnerability updates and items that may impact the line of business (past due, critical, high, and medium) in accordance with Service Level Agreements with Managed IT Provider.
• On a continuous basis, identifies, opens incident or request tickets with Managed IT provider and monitors progress; escalates issues as appropriate to Director of IT.
• Independently supports multiple technology initiatives and projects with respect to the bank’s overall strategic plan.
• Works in tandem with PMO to facilitate project deliverables for IT solutions; attends project meetings, providing project status to the IT management team; acts as IT technical liaison in conjunction with PMO.
• Collaborates with Lines of Business and Vendors to facilitate product build and deployment requirements; collaborates with Business Line Systems Admins and IT Application Support for product support transition.
• Proactively ensures newly onboarded systems are configured, documented, and maintained to QA specifications for deployment and to meet annual reviews.
• Executes project management responsibilities on initiatives, projects, and tasks assigned by IT Solution Architect Manager and IT Director.
• Functions in an independent role to lead IT Solution Architect I & II priorities and schedules to meet department goals and objectives; mentors IT Solution Architect I & II regarding system architectures, information technologies, and IT project management.
• Constructs and maintains department procedures for the management and maintenance of production information systems.
• Conducts technical reviews of software solutions to analyze system requirements, specifications, and features in accordance with the bank’s corporate standards, policies, procedures, and maintenance guidelines; performs comprehensive technical review for net‑new projects and significant architectural changes for in‑place products to determine implementation in the S&T Bank environment (Security Controls, System Requirements, Security Entitlement, Support and any concerns or considerations).
• Assigned technical reviews focus on new products and in-place product changes with high complexity and impact on bank sensitive data, customer PII,…