Solutions Architect

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IT, Development Regular Full-Time Professional Remote NY, NY, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Municipal Credit Union, we believe that an incredible culture helps create a happy and motivated team that works hard to achieve the best results for themselves and their members. For more than 100 years, MCU has provided affordable financial products and convenient services to a membership base that is now comprised of over 600,000 individuals. With each new generation we have the pleasure of interacting with, we maintain the credit union promise of people helping people.

Be New York's most loved financial institution by helping our members build their best financial futures

The Solutions Architect is a strategic technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that address operational challenges and business needs. This role provides end-to-end architectural direction across applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party platforms. Working closely with business stakeholders, engineering, operations, information security, risk, and vendors, the Solution Architect ensures that solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and long-term technology roadmaps.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in troubleshooting, process re-engineering, and technical leadership within financial service environments.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand objectives, processes, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures, including current-state and future-state views, system context, integration patterns, data flows, infrastructure considerations, and security requirements.
• Evaluate solution options and provide clear recommendations, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation considerations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, improve interoperability, automate processes, and modernize legacy capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership during complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning when architectural expertise is required.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Match technical solutions to everyday operational and business issues.
• Comfortable reading and reviewing code in at least one modern language (e.g., C#, Java, Python, or Type Script/Node.js).Evaluate emerging technologies and establish reusable architecture patterns
• Coordinate the development, analysis, and implementation of end-to-end solutions.
• Troubleshoot technology and process issues across systems and teams.
• Identify alternative solutions, mitigate risks, and re-engineer processes where necessary.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, operations, business analysis, quality assurance, and project delivery teams.
• Support vendor and platform evaluations, including technical fit, integration capability, security, resiliency, support model, lifecycle, and total cost considerations
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry practices, and financial services trends; recommend adoption where there is a clear business benefit.
• Translate business problems into scalable, secure, and reliable solution designs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
• Document architecture decisions, standards, risks, dependencies, and implementation guidance in accordance with governance, SDLC, and change-management processes.
• Build working relationships with team members and subject matter experts.
• Follow architectural standards and governance in line with enterprise technology roadmap, regulatory requirements, and security standards and ensure security and operational integrity is sustainable.
• Deploy and document changes in accordance with SDLC and change management processes.
• Proactively identify solutions to potential issues and embrace simplification.
• Serve as escalation point for high severity issues and troubleshoot / resolve complex…