Solutions Architect

Municipal Credit Union • New York, NY

19d • $121,300 - $208,170

About The Position

The Solutions Architect is a strategic technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that address operational challenges and business needs. The role provides end-to-end architectural direction across applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party platforms. In collaboration with business stakeholders, engineering, operations, information security, risk, and vendors, the Solutions Architect ensures solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and long-term technology roadmaps. The ideal candidate has deep experience in troubleshooting, process re-engineering, and technical leadership within financial services environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on a major cloud platform, such as Azure and/or AWS, including APIs and microservices; containerization and/or serverless; messaging/event-driven architectures; and observability and reliability patterns.
• Excellent follow-through skills, member relations skills, and sound business judgment.
• Significant experience designing and delivering complex enterprise technology solutions across multiple systems, platforms, or business functions.
• Proven experience decomposing legacy or vendor-centric environments and delivering stepwise modernization in production, such as core banking, digital banking, or similar transactional systems.
• Experience in banking, credit unions, payments, lending, or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Ability to analyze ambiguous or complex problems, develop options, build consensus, and present recommendations clearly.
• Experience with APIs, event-driven or messaging patterns, data exchange, identity and access management, and system-to-system integration.
• Experience with a DevOps toolset, such as Azure DevOps or similar, to collaborate and deploy code.
• Demonstrated analytical techniques and ability to recommend improvements to products, processes, or technology to technical and program leadership, and present ideas clearly and concisely.
• Experience with architecture governance, technology standards, design reviews, SDLC controls, change management, and operational readiness.
• Experience producing operational documentation, including runbooks, support models, and monitoring/alerting requirements, that enables effective, stable handoffs to Operations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand objectives, processes, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures, including current-state and future-state views, system context, integration patterns, data flows, infrastructure considerations, and security requirements.
• Evaluate solution options and provide recommendations addressing trade-offs, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation considerations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, improve interoperability, automate processes, and modernize legacy capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership during complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning when architectural expertise is required.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Match technical solutions to everyday operational and business issues.
• Read and review code in at least one modern language, such as C#, Java, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and establish reusable architecture patterns.
• Coordinate the development, analysis, and implementation of end-to-end solutions.
• Troubleshoot technology and process issues across systems and teams.
• Identify alternative solutions, mitigate risks, and re-engineer processes where necessary.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, operations, business analysis, quality assurance, and project delivery teams.
• Support vendor and platform evaluations, considering technical fit, integration capability, security, resiliency, support model, lifecycle, and total cost.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry practices, and financial services trends, and recommend adoption where there is a clear business benefit.
• Translate business problems into scalable, secure, and reliable solution designs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
• Document architecture decisions, standards, risks, dependencies, and implementation guidance in accordance with governance, SDLC, and change-management processes.
• Build working relationships with team members and subject matter experts.
• Follow architectural standards and governance in line with the enterprise technology roadmap, regulatory requirements, and security standards, and ensure sustainable security and operational integrity.
• Deploy and document changes in accordance with SDLC and change-management processes.
• Proactively identify solutions to potential issues and embrace simplification.
• Serve as an escalation point for high-severity issues and troubleshoot or resolve complex incidents.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• 401(k) with a 6% employer match per pay period
• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• 11 paid holidays annually

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time