Director, Architecture

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Job Description:

Position

Description:

Leads and manages application development efforts for large-scale initiatives spanning multiple platforms. Leads selection and implementation of development and testing tools and methodologies, and manages review and validation of test plans. Manages quality-assurance readiness of software deliverables across multiple efforts. Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications and subsystems. Establishes full project life-cycle plans for complex, multi-platform initiatives. Performs independent technical and functional analysis supporting divisional initiatives.

Leads and manages the development of original, creative technical solutions to advance ongoing development efforts. Participates in architecture design teams to shape enterprise solutions. Defines and implements application-level architecture across complex projects, components, and subsystems.

Primary Responsibilities:

Serves as a primary liaison with business units to resolve project and technology issues.

Oversees delivery of complex initiatives to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget.

Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for multiple concurrent projects.

Plans and coordinates schedules and assignments across complex, multi‑project portfolios.

Provides technology solutions to day‑to‑day issues and delivers technical evaluation estimates for technology initiatives.

Advises senior management on technical strategy and architectural direction.

Mentors junior team members through ongoing technical guidance and coaching.

Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.

Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.

Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.

Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.

Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.

Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.

Identifies and plans for future resource needs.

Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Architecture (or closely related occupation) designing and developing scalable and resilient architectures in a financial services environment, using Cloud technologies (AWS and Azure).Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Architecture (or closely related occupation) designing and developing scalable and resilient architectures in a financial services environment, using Cloud technologies (AWS and Azure).Skills

and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:
· Demonstrated Expertise architecting and engineering enterprise-level, multi-cloud applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to support scalable deployment and management of cloud-native microservices across AWS and Azure.
· Demonstrated Expertise architecting highly available and scalable applications, using REST Web services, programming languages (Java or Python), relational and No

SQL databases (Oracle and DynamoDB), and AWS Cloud native technologies…