Senior Solutions Architect – (Digital / Banking)

BMO • Naperville, IL

15d

About The Position

As a member of the BMO Digital Architecture, the Senior Solution Architect, primarily Leads end-to-end technology solutions and high-level designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with bank’s target architecture and standards for a business domain like Deposits, Cards, Lending, Channels, etc. Drives technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas – deposits, cards, payments, operations, customer experience, analytics working with business and technology partners Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domains to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems

Requirements

• Solution Architect with the following experience:
• Previous Development experience (Cloud, DevOps, Agile)
• Experience with services management (web services, REST, Web API, ESB, message-based) development, integration and deployment
• Enterprise-level Application Architecture
• Strong application security/infrastructure, & deployment exposure
• Data placement and data integration background
• Able to relate to end-to-end business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX
• All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight, Multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience
• API design
• API Security, digital/mobile architecture experience
• AI, Insights, Automation experience
• Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus
• MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g., solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
• Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately
• Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the “C” level
• 15 years of IT experience with minimum 6 years of hands-on solution architecture experience for enterprise-grade applications
• Understands or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g., AWS) technologies

Nice To Haves

• Banking solution experience is desirable

Responsibilities

• Solution architect, who works with other architects including enterprise architects, leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank’s target architecture and standards
• Resolve issues as they arise
• Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options, solution architecture, high-level end-to-end design flow) collaborating with other technical leads
• Assists with and contributes to function area-specific target architecture, transition architectures, and technology roadmap
• Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against BMO target architecture and standards to solve business problems
• Coordinate cross-team communication and facilitate reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums.
• Lead socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.
• Facilitate and lead resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members
• Identify and communicate risks (business, application, technical) associated with component or application implementation.
• Evaluate multiple solution design options, working with a multi-disciplined team to design integrated solution architecture across application areas and helping the project adhere to Enterprise standards
• Document solutions using bank’s standard template
• Document high-level design and hand-off work to next group in the development pipeline

Benefits

• BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed