Senior Solutions Architect

Equity Bank • Wichita, KS

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect is a strategic, hands-on leader responsible for designing and guiding delivery of complex, secure, and scalable solutions across core banking, digital channels, integration platforms, data and AI, and cloud infrastructure. The role translates business objectives into well-architected solutions, aligns designs with enterprise standards, and provides technical leadership from discovery through production. It supports Equity Bank’s modernization and AI/data initiatives, including cloud adoption, API-first integration, and secure data platforms, while maintaining regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

The position partners with product owners, engineering, information security, and vendors; leads architecture and delivery decisions; and promotes standards, documentation, security, governance, and technical mentorship. It regularly involves working with computers and electronic media in an office setting.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration with a Technology or Analytics focus, Data Science, or AI relevant to the role’s AI/data initiatives.
• At least 8 years of experience in software/integration architecture or senior engineering, including at least 3 years designing enterprise-scale solutions.
• Expertise in at least two of the following areas: AWS/Azure cloud; integration technologies; data architecture; or security.
• Cloud knowledge, such as AWS/Azure networking, IAM, containers, serverless, and storage.
• Integration knowledge, such as REST/GraphQL APIs, Kafka or other event streaming, ESB/iPaaS, and ETL.
• Data knowledge, such as warehouse/lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, and governance.
• Security knowledge, such as Zero Trust, PKI/certificates, encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Strong proficiency with architectural documentation and tooling, including UML/C4, ADRs, and IaC patterns.
• Demonstrated experience in regulated environments; financial services experience is preferred.
• Systems thinking and the ability to simplify complex ecosystems.
• Executive communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.
• Pragmatic decision-making that balances resilience, cost, and speed.
• Leadership in cross-functional delivery and vendor orchestration.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Certifications such as AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, CKAD/CKA, CISSP, or equivalent.
• Experience with core banking platforms and digital onboarding/origination flows.
• Familiarity with payments such as Zelle, ACH, and wires, and with fraud controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end conceptual, logical, and physical solution design for customer-facing and back-office systems across banking domains, including deposits, lending, digital account opening, and payments.
• Define integration approaches, including REST APIs, event streaming, ETL/iPaaS, and ESB, and develop canonical data models that reduce duplication and enable reuse.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts, including diagrams, interface contracts, decision records, and threat models, aligned to ETS standards.
• Partner with product owners, engineering, information security, and vendors to decompose requirements, estimate work, and plan delivery from proof of concept through MVP and scale.
• Provide technical guidance during build and cutover, remove delivery impediments, and ensure non-functional requirements for performance, availability, resilience, and observability are met.
• Govern design quality through reviews and automated checks, approve solution deviations, and manage technical debt.
• Architect secure AWS/Azure workloads, including identity, networking, storage, and container orchestration, using landing zone patterns.
• Design data pipelines and interfaces to enterprise warehouse/lakehouse platforms for analytics and AI use cases, applying data governance controls.
• Collaborate on MLOps patterns, including feature stores and model deployment and monitoring, where applicable, and ensure responsible AI and model risk controls.
• Embed security-by-design and align solutions with GLBA, PCI, SOC, and internal audit findings.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and threat modeling, support remediation plans, and ensure audit-ready documentation.
• Champion architecture principles, patterns, and ETS standards, and propose updates based on lessons learned.
• Evaluate third-party and SaaS solutions; lead technical sections of RFPs/RFIs, compare alternatives, and negotiate technical clauses with vendors.
• Mentor engineers and junior architects, promoting strong documentation, testing, automation, and observability.
• Communicate architecture decisions to executives and business stakeholders in business terms and align roadmap items to measurable outcomes.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Group life and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Group cancer insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Generous vacation and sick time
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Pet insurance
• Retail banking benefits
• Competitive compensation

What This Job Offers

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