Senior Solution Architect - Finance
About The Position
The Senior Solution Architect - Finance guides the development and management of technology solutions across the Finance portfolio, focusing on initiatives that improve automation, organizational effectiveness, and scalable business processes. The role provides leadership, analysis, and design expertise to ensure Finance solutions meet business needs, follow architectural governance and standards, and support efficient, well-controlled operations. As a strategic partner to Finance leaders and process owners, the architect jointly develops Finance capability roadmaps, shapes initiative priorities, identifies dependencies, and recommends sequencing for process, data, and technology investments. The role works with Tech & Data product and project teams and enterprise architects to connect business strategy with practical technology roadmaps and sustainable solution architecture. This is a hybrid role based out of Andersen’s Oak Park Heights, Minnesota office.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least eight years of business process experience in finance.
- At least eight years of experience in IT disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or cloud development.
- Understanding of security controls.
- Understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends and practical application of existing and emerging technologies to evolving business processes.
- Ability to influence, guide, and facilitate stakeholders and peers.
- Working knowledge of Finance business processes, financial controls, enterprise data concepts, and how technology solutions support Finance operations.
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business and technical problems and propose solutions.
- Understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies; ability to advise agile teams on opportunities, impact, risks, and technical and architectural debt.
- Experience delivering presentations to leaders and technical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to OneStream and Infor solutions.
Responsibilities
- Translate business and technical requirements into architectural blueprints and document solution architecture design and analysis.
- Partner with Finance process owners to assess whether processes should be standardized, simplified, redesigned, or automated before recommending technology solutions; promote common enterprise processes and limit customization unless a documented business, regulatory, or control requirement exists.
- Monitor the current-state solution portfolio and identify deficiencies related to aging technologies or misalignment with business requirements.
- Support product managers’ end-of-life decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire services and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
- Analyze technology industry, competitor, and market trends and determine their potential implications for solutions.
- Facilitate evaluation, selection, and total cost of ownership analysis for software product standards and services, as well as design standard and custom software configurations.
- Ensure Finance solutions incorporate security, privacy, segregation-of-duties, approval, reconciliation, audit-trail, records-retention, resiliency, and financial-control requirements from initial design through implementation.
- Lead architecture governance by defining and promoting solution architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns; guide product owners, architects, and agile teams to align investments and designs with enterprise strategy, governance, and future-state objectives.
- Provide standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to support governance assessment of new and ongoing technology investments.
- Coach and mentor other technical or solution architects.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer fixed contributions and company matching
- Profit sharing
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Account (HSA), and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Life insurance
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid maternity leave and paid parental leave
- Career growth planning and nationwide career opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
