Cloud Solutions Architect

Title:

Cloud Solutions Architect

Location:

Merrimack, NH or Smithfield, RI

Duration: 12+ months

MOI:
High chances that the final round will be onsite.

Looking for Visa Independent Consultant

• 6 10+ years of Solution Architecture experience with end-to-end solution ownership
• Strong AWS Cloud Architecture experience
• Technical leadership and stakeholder management experience
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Enterprise architecture experience (APIs, integrations, data architecture, security)
• Large enterprise experience (Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Fortune 500, etc.)
• Software development background (Java/Spring preferred)
• Agile and Dev Ops experience
• Ability to quickly ramp up and work independently

• Financial Services / Wealth Management domain experience
• AWS certification
• Azure cloud experience

• Limited or no Solution Architecture experience
• No AWS Cloud Architecture experience
• No technical leadership or stakeholder-facing experience
• Startup-only background
• Infrastructure-only Architect background
• No end-to-end solution ownership experience
• Weak communication skills

They lead domain architecture for key Institutional Wealth Management platform capabilities, spanning platform data, reporting, integrations, and client experience services. My scope includes billing and data-sharing solutions, reporting platforms, security and governance, and client service enablement capabilities such as digital service workflows, automation, and straight-through processing. He has been a part of FIT and then split into IWMS, and then now they are back within FIT.

They are doing this as the Mainframe Organization Modernization Initiative. This is architecture work working with Primarily cloud (AWS) platforms and need a few years in Architecture role. They need someone who can hit the ground running within a few weeks of starting. They don't need mainframe experience for this role, they have support there. They need to create end to end solutions, so this has a leadership component to the role as well.

Because they will be articulating with development and leadership teams. Putting this simply, they need a candidate with experience as a solution architect with a tech background (java or other languages don't matter) but in that architectural space for 6 to 10 years. They need strong exposure to cloud service providers. They need to have a security first mindset. Need to be great communicators.

Something that is nice to have is a financial domain background. Or other large companies, startups won't be a good culture fit.

The Solution Architect will play a hands-on role driving the overall technical architecture and being responsible for the end-to-end solution architecture within the Institutional Wealth Management Services (IWMS) space. They will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors, Agile Squads, and Peer Architects while driving the IWMS digital modernization efforts. The Solution Architect's focus is enabling and accelerating the delivery of our squads by creating highly reliable, scalable, solutions that deliver key business value.

10+ years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.

Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for agile teams. You will drive the end-to-end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners, agile teams, and architecture leadership.

Ability to engage with multiple squads to deliver architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, wellness plans, and product roadmaps.

Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.

Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and technical leads for…