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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to join a fast-growing team at our financial client in Phoenix. You will need to be able to jump into the organization and quickly understand multiple financial domains (risk, payments, or any domains associated with banks/financial institutions) and lead discussions with a variety of engineering teams to make suggestions on architecture best practices.

The goal of this team is to set the bar across its organization for technology. The responsibility of this team includes creating enterprise architectures, designs, standards, methodologies, and best practices. In this role, you'll need to lead discussions around requirements, both functional and non-functional, create POV diagrams, and ensure plans fit within the enterprise's standard architecture processes.

These candidates will be leveraging Golang and Java to achieve technical goals. In addition, it is a large goal of the team to move into a public cloud environment, as such experience with GCP or AWS is needed.

The solution architect’s day will generally be comprised of:

25% of the day communicating with different product and engineering teams.

25% working with specific engineering teams on best approach for application architecture decisions.

50% working hands-on with documentation, planning, and design.

Responsibilities of this role:

Reviewing application architecture and determining best efficiencies and solutions to make improvements and better functionalities. Provides direction, guidance, and implementation of IT Platform architecture to support various Enterprise Architecture requirements and initiatives. While working hands-on in creating Enterprise Architecture Artifacts such as Models, Documents, and presentations.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Skills and Requirements

-10+ years in an enterprise/solution architect role, with a minimum 3+ years’ experience in software development

-Preferably comfortable working in a Java environment, this role will not be coding directly, but reviewing other's code and looking for bad code.

-Hands on experience creating architecture diagrams and documents.

-Experience reviewing application architecture, finding solutions and efficiency opportunities

-Thorough understanding on enterprise APIs, API architecture, solutions, and strategies

-An understanding of how to protect APIs

-Experience working in any financial industry, bank, payment processing company, etc. with preferable experience working in a variety of domains (risk, payments, etc.)

-Any public cloud architecture experience and/or certifications (GCP, Amazon, Azure)