Principal Application Architect

Hitachi Digital Services•Riverwoods, IL

11h

About The Position

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us. The team Responsible for leading the charge to drive technology strategy and technical capabilities for an application ecosystem. Leverage deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to design application architecture that balances business and customer needs with technical non-functional requirements for resiliency, security and efficiency. Partners with application engineers to ensure the application ecosystem is engineered according to architecture vision and continuously evolve the architecture and application to meet changing customer and business needs. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. The role Responsibilities • Partners with Sr. Product Owner(s) to develop product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy • Independently oversees the design process for an application • Coaches' other architects to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security • Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks • Trains others in solution design patterns • Coaches' internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns • Create and maintain big-picture design view of product portfolio • Design and document solutions that meet the business needs. • Conduct feasibility analysis, product comparison, capability mapping, high level estimations • Apply Architecture development processes as required by the organization • Create requirements and architectural specifications, functionality, and integration with new/existing systems.

Requirements

Bachelors – Computer Science or related
10+ Years – Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related

Nice To Haves

Experience in architecture and design for card transaction processing applications.
In depth knowledge on ISO8583 message formats.
Experience with Payment networks, Banking industry and Debit card processing.
Experience building high performing, scalable systems that adapt and grow to customer needs.
Understanding of technology evaluation process.
Experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, SOA and microservices.
Familiarity and experience using Kubernetes, AWS and/or other cloud computing services.
Knowledge of API, Application integration patterns
Good communication, and presentation skills

Responsibilities

Partners with Sr. Product Owner(s) to develop product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy
Independently oversees the design process for an application
Coaches' other architects to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security
Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks
Trains others in solution design patterns
Coaches' internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns
Create and maintain big-picture design view of product portfolio
Design and document solutions that meet the business needs.
Conduct feasibility analysis, product comparison, capability mapping, high level estimations
Apply Architecture development processes as required by the organization
Create requirements and architectural specifications, functionality, and integration with new/existing systems.