Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect - Anti-Money Laundering 24-00234 1+ Year Contract - extension possibly W3 Only Candidates must live within commutable Distance to NYC and able to work onsite 2 days a week/3 remote Must be able to pass a Level 2+ Security Clearance No Corp to Corp or 3rd party agencies • Participates in domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction • Drives technology improvements within the sphere of influence and complexity levels. • Analyzes, designs, and develops a roadmap and implementation plan • Meets with IT teams to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements • Participates in developing policies, standards, guidelines and procedures • Analyzes the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements • Researches and evaluates emerging technology, industry and market trends • Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities • Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others • Partners with other functions across IT (PM, BA, EA, Security, Operations) to ensure collaboration, consistency, quality and timeliness of solution • Identifies opportunities for reuse Participates in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases and business innovation portfolio development • Leads and coordinates domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction • Develops business case(s) for approval • Recommends allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives • Develops, and communicates domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines and procedures • Leads and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process • Reviews and approves domain level recommendations to architectural standards • Consults on enterprise-facing projects • Leads research and evaluation activities for technology solutions • Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support organizational change management initiatives • Builds professional relationships with executives to gather and articulate the technical vision, and to produce the strategic plan for realizing it • Aligns FRB SF IT architecture strategy with enterprise IT strategy and plans • Works with senior business leaders to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives • Leads FRB SF IT architecture Governance processes and manages exceptions to architecture standards • Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements • Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends • Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solution/service • Proactively identifies reuse goals, opportunities and related explorations • Partners with leadership to define and communicate long-term technology strategy and planning for the Bank • Leads the design of key solutions, ensuring they are managed and coordinated with other internal or external enterprise business, information and technology architecture • Provides leadership and guidance to the teams responsible for architecting, implementing and performing continuous improvement • Contributes to the design, development and implementation of short- and long-term technical solutions through new and existing applications, systems architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure • Provides leadership, strategic direction and architecture improvements to improve customer satisfaction, speed of development, cost of development, implementation, and ease of maintenance • Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives • Oversees all software architectural efforts • Maintains an in-depth knowledge of best practices surrounding architectural design and applications development, inclusive of development technologies and best practices • Develops road maps describing the evolution of all business solution portfolios from current state to future state • Oversees models, including solution patterns, to guide solution decisions for the Bank • Ensures that all individual solution architecture design and analysis work is documented • Defines principles to guide solution decisions for the business application portfolio Complexity • Oversees architecture implementation and ongoing refinement activities • Leads the creation or evolution of the Bank's architecture function/program • Understands, advocates and supports the Bank's IT strategies • Consults on the most complex tasks or projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains

Quals-- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Systems Analysis or a related field or equivalent work experience • Typically has over 15 years of IT experience with hands-on experience in application / system / platform / integration architectures • In depth experience in architecting, designing, and building large scale distributed, enterprise level, services-oriented systems and web applications in an agile environment • Experience building applications with multiple technologies and platforms • Strong experience integrating enterprise-scale applications including 3rd party applications • Requires leadership experience in multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders

Top 5 must-have hard skills: AML financial fraud experience, AML ontology development experience (knowledge models), Java, springboot, oracle, messaging, Kafka, microservices, experience with one or of these is good to have ( 2. Top 5 soft skills: communication, abstract thinking, business and technology, senior leaders 3. Team size: agile squad 10-15 ppl 4. Key aspects of the role: lead architect on significant AML software renovation effort 5. Day-to-day Expectations: work closely with agile squad, follow agile ceremonies, sprint