Lead Solution Architect

GM Financial • Irving, TX

2h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will enable digital transformation by providing technical leadership and guidance to architects and agile teams, and by defining and communicating a shared technical vision. The role guides the architecture of existing digital products and new initiatives, using modern architecture and cloud technologies to support customer experiences and satisfaction. You will translate business needs into end-to-end technical solutions and help establish architecture standards and patterns, including complex Azure architectures for mobile and web applications.

The position collaborates across technical groups, business partners, leadership, and architecture domains to shape and deliver initiatives and products. It includes mentoring other solution architects, contributing to technology strategy and roadmaps, and developing and maintaining architectural standards, patterns, reference architectures, and best practices. The role also develops future-state application architecture and supports its adoption in alignment with business strategies.

Requirements

• Experience working with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean, or XP and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with multi-tier application architecture design, application development across the full SDLC, and application integration.
• Advanced knowledge of application design patterns, such as Domain Driven Design, microservices, Minimal API, event-driven architecture, federated identity, sharding, and Strangler Fig.
• Experience with API technologies including HTTP, JSON, XML, REST API, and GraphQL.
• Experience applying microservices concepts such as CQRS, back-end-for-front-end, and anti-corruption layer.
• Experience and technical knowledge across various technology stacks.
• Experience with cloud-native applications and cloud services architecture.
• Experience building cloud solutions architecture using public cloud IaaS and PaaS.
• Experience and technical knowledge in containerization, including Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes.
• Experience and technical knowledge with structured and unstructured databases and their usage patterns.
• Experience with integration methodologies and tools.
• Experience with process automation approaches and tooling, such as DevOps or AIOps.
• Strong collaboration skills, including establishing alignment and relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and teams.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and navigating situations without a clearly defined path.
• Extensive IT expertise, critical thinking, and ability to develop novel solutions to complex challenges.
• Broad technical foundation and experience to guide clients across challenges and industries.
• Ability to drive organizational change and align and onboard teams to new processes and toolsets.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences at varying levels.
• Ability to explain complex technology topics to executives.
• Ability to self-manage time and priorities in a complex, multi-team Agile environment while maintaining high-quality deliverables.
• Ability to achieve results through others and beyond individual contributions.
• Experience with Adobe Marketing Cloud products.
• Experience with mobile application development.
• 7–10 years of experience as an architect, with a proven track record of implementing innovative solutions and delivering business value.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to use AI tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, to support daily work.
• Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias.
• Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted research, summarization, and content generation.
• Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI-assisted software development or automation.
• Knowledge of prompting techniques to improve output quality.
• Awareness of emerging generative AI capabilities and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge, business-context understanding, and analytical skills to support organizational technical transformation.
• Build relationships with senior technical individuals and leaders across the organization.
• Educate architects and participate in detailed architectural discussions to ensure cloud solutions address functional and non-functional requirements and are designed for successful deployment.
• Partner with leadership and architects across domains to formulate and execute new and existing initiatives and products.
• Mentor solution architects and transfer knowledge through group sessions.
• Act as a technical liaison between GM Financial technical groups.
• Own or contribute significantly to the outcome of a major initiative for the Solutions Architect organization.
• Contribute to technology strategy and roadmaps, track technology trends and their application in financial services, and work with business partners to design and implement applications using modern architectural standards.
• Participate in developing and maintaining Digital organization architectural standards, patterns, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Develop future-state application architecture and ensure its effective adoption in support of business strategies.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching.
• 12 weeks of 100% paid bonding leave for new parents.
• Tuition assistance.
• Training.
• GM employee auto discount.
• Community service pay.
• Nine company holidays.
• Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior