Application Architect IV specialist

Job Overview

Seeking a Solutions Architect with 7‑10 years of experience to lead the development of complex system architectures within a sizable functional area. Responsibilities include setting policy, coordinating design activities, ensuring consistency across projects, and advising technical teams on architecture and integration.

• Lead the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal stakeholders.
• Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality, and systems management requirements.
• Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, coordinates design activities, and promotes discipline to ensure consistency.
• Ensures recommended solutions and standards are adhered to by the development teams.
• Within a business change program, manages target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the program.
• Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business or functional areas.
• Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Understanding and assessing the needs of the business and recommending the most appropriate data‑based solution view.
• Documenting solutions and architecture models through documents and other artefacts (e.g., Technology Approvals).
• Working with various applications/process/business stakeholders to understand and define alternate processes/remediation approaches.
• Producing Current State, Future State and Transitional Architecture models.
• Determining database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and technology.
• Defining data integrity controls.
• Performing gap analysis between current state and aspirated state.
• Providing tactical and strategic solutions.
• Defining necessary data movement mechanisms and data delivery mechanisms.
• Evaluating and suggesting products/solutions for different data operations (ETL, BI, Workflow, Data Management).
• Promoting an environment that supports diversity and reflects the organization’s brand.
• Supporting the team in providing inputs for fine‑tuning and improving performance.
• Actively participating in group solutions design and review sessions to guide systems teams to ensure adherence to the agreed solution architecture.
• Identifying and leveraging appropriate industry and organization‑defined architecture reference models and solution patterns.
• Providing architectural consultancy as required for the delivery of projects to ensure business objectives are achieved and regulatory and operational risk are controlled.
• Advancing and actively promoting strategic architectures, technologies and products.
• Leading the process of performing POC’s on products identified and overseeing their rollouts.

• University degree.
• Minimum of seven years’ experience in delivering system solutions, preferably including enterprise systems, as a Solutions Architect or similar architectural discipline.
• Experience with a wide range of solutions addressing application architecture and design, systems integration, workflow, data & information management and reporting.
• Strong track record of delivery and support of successful implementations.
• Experience with Financial Services sector.
• Excellent understanding of architectural concepts, principles and best practices.
• Solid analytical and design skills; able to quickly assess strategic requirements and recommend appropriate solution options.
• Excellent understanding of how to apply architecture models, solution patterns, and building blocks, the use of current and future state…