Enterprise Architect – Enterprise Application Architect

 

Enterprise/Solution Architect for loan accounting system implementation effort to “understand/assess current environment and support teams to build a future vision for our architecture to build against.”

 

Requirements:

• 15+ years’ experience as tech lead/architect in complex enterprise environments
• Experience with large scale enterprise systems implementation and ‘big system remediation’
• Enterprise & Solutions Application Architect of high volume transactional Financial Applications,
• Strong enterprise application software architecture, solutions architecture
• Mainframe experience is important; the mainframe will not be going away altogether – this person needs to understand how to integrate other applications with COTS loan accounting software along with other legacy mainframe applications.
  • Fiserv loan accounting system experience is a plus
• Financial services with High Volume Transactions experience
• Big plus with loan accounting system experience (if they have it, great, but they also don’t want to limit the pool of good candidates)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with technology and business
• Hybrid - Cloud and On Prem Application Integration Architecture & Solutions Experience
• Azure Application Integration experience is desired
• Application Replatforming Experience (Archtitecture/Solutions Architecture) from Mainframe Cobol to Azure, and C#.   Mainframe DB2/VSAM to SQL Server based solutions.
• Data Architecture Experience

 

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the IT team on their estimation work:
  • Provide a full-time resource for the IT Leadership group to lean on to make sure consistent progress is made.
  • Track the components being estimated and coordinate estimating processes with appropriate SME’s.
  • Document assumptions and risks, and follow up on dependencies and action items.
    • Review the current state of SunStream technology platforms, as well as any planned changes.
    • Interview key stakeholders to determine high-level architectural direction.
    • Assist and Work with the Enterprise Data Architect on modeling future state data flows and storage plans.
    • Create conceptual designs and future state architecture diagrams.
    • Develop a time-phased Roadmap to be included in the Architecture Vision.
• Support the Infrastructure Lead with defining the technology footprint: networking, databases, servers, middleware, etc.
• Act as a liaison to the Fiserv Architect on vendor application interfaces and technologies.
• Work with development teams to refactor/re-engineer existing application to work in the new environment.
• Present key findings and overviews to the leadership team, where applicable.

 

**The best candidates will have financial systems mainframe knowledge, as well as experience with migrations of large systems to both vendor packages and custom built hybrid cloud and on-prem applications.