Solution Architect Sr. - Fraud, Enterprise Technology

PNC • Pittsburgh, PA

2d • $112,000 - $249,600 • Onsite

About The Position

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Solution Architect Sr. within PNC's Technology organization, you can be based in Pittsburgh PA, Cleveland OH (preferred), Birmingham AL, Phoenix AZ or Dallas TX. PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position. PNC is seeking a highly skilled IT Architect for solutioning and design of fraud, financial crimes, and AML technologies. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, performance, and security of our fraud detection and prevention ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in IT architecture preferred
• Understanding of NICE Actimize platform preferred
• Strong understanding of containerization platforms, such as RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AKS, etc.
• Strong understanding of Microservice design patterns
• Familiarity with 12-factor app and cloud-native design principles
• Familiarity with different types of UML diagrams.
• Familiarity with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
• Strong sense of initiative and ownership.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role.
• Industry relevant experience is typically 8+ years.
• In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Microservices
• Containerization
• UML
• Kafka
• Machine Learning (ML)

Responsibilities

• Evaluate requests for solution architecture services that have been submitted to have starting requirements and stakeholders identified.
• Ensure that business outcomes / problem statement / requirements / use cases are adequately documented by requestor / Business System Analyst (BSA) / product owner
• Review request against existing service offering matrix to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Work with product organization to prioritize work against other competing priorities.
• Creation of draft artifacts and begin investigation, exploration, technologies available and other constraints that may be involved.
• Identify any additional stakeholders, both business and technology.
• Engage relevant vendors, technology owners/SMEs, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, product owners to ensure feasibly, best practices, standards, and expectations are met
• Creation of UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.
• Creation of Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) context diagram, functional flow diagram, cross-functional flow diagram, and application configuration flowchart diagram.
• Review and evaluate options and technologies available that could be used to satisfy the requested service offering
• Know and understand many different technologies and how they relate to each other
• Document assumptions, risks, and decisions
• Ensure/document/confirm deliverables align to documented architectural guiding principles
• Present deliverables in design review to all stakeholders
• Obtain artifact approval from all necessary stakeholders
• Articulate cost/benefit or trade-off analysis (e.g. guiding principles, technologies, etc.)
• Formulate, document and defend new technology strategies
• Perform peer review of other designs
• Develops solution architecture and resolves complex issues in a variety of projects through the implementation of requirements analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Designs solution architecture in large or complex programs, including system and application designs, software and technical architecture, in accordance with strategies and objectives.
• Provides expertise for the solution architecture team and other IT staff on a variety of issues in software designs, system architecture and solution-oriented technologies.
• Communicates with clients and analyses business requirements and processes; makes recommendations, and leads in shaping future plans in solution architecture.
• Oversees solution architecture project outcomes, including hardware and software design; ensures that each project phase meets overall requirements.

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

What This Job Offers

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