Senior Solution Architect

Zions Bancorporation Senior Solution Architect - Midvale, Utah

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients, and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today.We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect that will focus on data/application integrations, master data management, and system modernization. As a core member of the Enterprise Architecture team, your expertise and collaboration skills will help drive the development of quality solutions and ensure alignment to strategic technology directions.The Solution Architect will:Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural solution to achieve business objectives with consideration of business drivers and capabilities (future and current state).Work closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.Support product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.Create architectural solutions to guide and contextualize solution designs/development across products, services, projects, and systems.Develop future state roadmaps for products and technologies that align to and enable business objectives.Define principles, architecture patterns, and standards to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for an Agile Release Train (ART) to help ensure the system under development is fit for its intended purpose and aligns with architectural principles, patterns, and standards.Represent IT at project inception and assist in the creation of business cases and the preparation of project funding proposals - including TCO.Assist Business Analysts and System Owners in defining technology and non-functional requirements for solutions.Other duties as assigned.Technical Experience and Qualifications:Solid experience with integration technologies that provide API management, messaging/streaming, file transfer, integration gateway, ETL, and/or complex integration techniques.A minimum of 5 years’ experience as an architect that actively promotes and uses industry best practice architectural patterns in their architectural designs and implementations.Effective problem resolution, analysis, and troubleshooting skills related to information architecture concepts that enable well-architected and integrated transactional, analytical, and collaborative systems.Excellence in written, verbal, and presentation skills when working with business leaders, project management/ARTS, and technical experts at all levels.Ability to listen for understanding, resolve conflicts, negotiate, compromise, and collaboratively lead business leaders and project teams to an optimal solution.Experience migrating on-premises systems to the cloud is preferred.Firsthand experience in modeling languages (such as ArchiMate, TOGAF, UML) is a plus.Banking or other Financial Services experience is a plus.8+ years of experience in project management, Software development life cycles, and information systems architecture and applications.Requires a bachelor’s in computer science, Electronic Engineering, MIS, or related field. A combination of education and experience may meet requirements.Location:This position has a hybrid work-from-home schedule with a minimum of three days per week in the office at the new Zions Technology Center in Midvale, UT.Apply now if you have a passion for impactful outcomes, enjoy working collaboratively with co-workers, and want to make a difference for the clients and communities we serve.Equal Opportunity Employer

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