Solution Architect

Overview

Join Us in Making an Impact

At OneAZ Credit Union, our success is measured only by yours. We're here to create lasting change in the lives of our members, our communities, and our team. If you're looking for a career with purpose, where your work truly matters, you've found it!

You're impactful, compassionate, and fearless, ready to embrace new challenges and shape the future of financial well-being. You take accountability for our success and thrive in an environment where curiosity is celebrated. If this sounds like you, let's build something great together.

This position will be located at our Corporate Office: 2355 W Pinnacle Peak Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85027

The Solution Architect is responsible for translating business objectives into comprehensive end‑to‑end solution designs that span the organization's core banking systems, digital channels, data platforms, and security architecture. This role establishes and maintains the solution blueprint, integration patterns, and nonfunctional standards across multiple technology platforms.

End-to-End Solution Design

• Translate business and regulatory requirements into target solution architectures, integration contracts, and transition state designs.
• Define system interfaces, data flows, and event‑driven interactions across core banking, digital channels, payments, LOS, CRM, data, and security domains.
• Develop architectural decision records, diagrams, and views to guide delivery teams and support stakeholder understanding.

Integration and Vendor Collaboration

• Establish reliable, secure, and reusable integration patterns, including APIs, event streams, and file‑based exchanges.
• Collaborate with vendor solution architects and internal technology owners to ensure alignment of solution designs, environments, and implementation plans.

Systems Architecture Expertise

• Provide deeper architectural analysis for one or more platforms (e.g., digital banking systems, core banking, payments) as needed to define module boundaries, performance expectations, and configuration standards.
• Offer technical guidance to engineering teams on API design, resilience patterns, observability practices, and secure configuration.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

• Align solution designs with enterprise architecture standards and participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) checkpoints as required.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of architectural patterns and standards.
• Incorporate financial services regulatory controls (e.g., GLBA, NCUA expectations), security-by-design principles, and privacy-by-default requirements into architectural decisions.

Delivery Enablement

• Reduce delivery risks by clarifying nonfunctional requirements, including availability, performance, disaster recovery (DR), RTO/RPO, security, capacity planning, and testability.
• Support product and delivery teams with backlog refinement, story decomposition, and traceability between business outcomes and architectural decisions.

• H.S. Diploma Required
• Bachelors Degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred.
• 3-5 years similar or related experience in architecture roles (solution and/or system), designing multi‑system solutions that span integrations, data, and security required.
• Proven experience in financial services (credit union, bank, or fintech) with familiarity in one or more of: core banking, digital banking, payments, LOS, fraud/risk, or card services preferred.
• Strong integration architecture skills (REST/Graph
  
  QL, messaging/eventing, file based exchanges), API lifecycle and governance, and secure design patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to define and enforce NFRs (availability, performance, security, DR).
• Excellent communication, able to explain tradeoffs and decisions to technical and non technical audiences; strong facilitation and documentation habits.
• Hands on Systems Architecture background (application/platform internals, component design, API/interface definition, performance tuning).
• Experience with core banking, digital banking platforms, and vendor ecosystems during conversions or large implementations.
• Familiarity with…