Senior Solution Architect – Fraud, Enterprise Technology

Role Overview

• Evaluate requests for solution architecture services that have been submitted to have starting requirements and stakeholders identified.
• Ensure that business outcomes / problem statement / requirements / use cases are adequately documented by requestor / Business System Analyst (BSA) / product owner
• Review request against existing service offering matrix to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Work with product organization to prioritize work against other competing priorities.
• Creation of draft artifacts and begin investigation, exploration, technologies available and other constraints that may be involved.
• Identify any additional stakeholders, both business and technology.
• Engage relevant vendors, technology owners/SMEs, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, product owners to ensure feasibly, best practices, standards, and expectations are met
• Creation of UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.
• Creation of Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) context diagram, functional flow diagram, cross-functional flow diagram, and application configuration flowchart diagram.
• Review and evaluate options and technologies available that could be used to satisfy the requested service offering
• Know and understand many different technologies and how they relate to each other
• Document assumptions, risks, and decisions
• Ensure/document/confirm deliverables align to documented architectural guiding principles
• Present deliverables in design review to all stakeholders
• Obtain artifact approval from all necessary stakeholders
• Articulate cost/benefit or trade-off analysis (e.g. guiding principles, technologies, etc.)
• Formulate, document and defend new technology strategies
• Perform peer review of other designs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in IT architecture preferred
• Understanding of NICE Actimize platform preferred
• Strong understanding of containerization platforms, such as RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AKS, etc.
• Strong understanding of Microservice design patterns
• Familiarity with 12-factor app and cloud-native design principles
• Familiarity with different types of UML diagrams.
• Familiarity with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service