Solutions Senior Architect

City National Bank • Los Angeles, CA

14h • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Solution Architect is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining on-premises and cloud native applications. This role involves participating in improving SDLC, Engineering, and DevOps practices, and developing both front-end and back-end solutions. The architect designs, develops and maintains solutions, and provides technical guidance to other Team Members. They also participate in creating SDLC, Architecture, Design and Coding standards, identify complex business problems and participate in generating solutions, identify performance issues, analyze root causes and participate in performance improvement activities. Additionally, the role involves participating in remedying compliance issues, and documenting and communicating problems, designs and solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 10+ years of software development experience including UI as well as middle tier and backend
• Minimum of 6+ years of solution architecture
• 6+ years of experience Cloud Solution Architecture Experience
• 6+ years of experience Microservices Architecture
• 6+ years of experience designing REST APIs
• 6+ Experience working in fully DevOps enabled environment
• 6+ years of experience with databases and data modeling / design
• 4+ years of experience designing in the context of workflows and rules
• Experience designing using containers and container orchestration platform
• 4+year of experience designing asynchronous/ event driven as well as synchronous systems
• 4+years of experience incorporating security into the application architecture
• Experience with developing architecture, coding standards and patterns
• Large application design and implementation experience including architecture and design of modern web, mobile, and integration (cloud/on-premises) platforms
• Excellent verbal and written communications, interpersonal, and analytical skills is required
• Experience with Agile development methodology including Scrum, XP, FDD, TDD, and SAFe
• Extensive experience with API management toolsets, DevOps, server infrastructure, network infrastructure, caching methodologies, information security, and database technologies
• Proven track record in generating alternative solution approaches and driving a pragmatic trade-off solution
• Proven track record of optimizing the development activities with a strong focus on DevOps and automation
• Significant experience documenting solution designs using a variety of approaches (e.g. using UML)
• Solid Experience with DDD, TDD and BDD - ability to direct and guide the team through these approaches
• Proven ability to learn new technologies and evaluate for fitness into a specific business context through POCs and other evaluations
• Deep experience with reviewing code and suggesting refactoring for performance, quality and maintainability and other attributes
• Experienced in designing APIs, scale and secure them. Ability to integrate with internal and external systems and secure those integrations
• Experience integrating systems and applications with CRM systems like Salesforce
• Ability to operate and guide the team in all areas of the technology stack - front, middle tier and the backend
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and evaluate for fit into a specific business context through POCs and other evaluations - ability to orchestrate POCs and evaluations
• Ability to review code and suggest refactoring for performance, quality and maintainability and guide the team through related activities
• Experience with following technologies: C#/.Net, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular/REACT, CSS, HTML SQL, AKS, Azure DevOps, NoSQL, Azure, AWS, Serverless OAuth, SAML, APIM

Nice To Haves

• Azure (for Cloud Solution Architecture Experience)
• SQL and NoSQL (for databases and data modeling / design)
• AKS (for containers and container orchestration platform)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems
• Writing great quality code driving towards automated testing and validations
• Perform analysis of performance; plan and execute activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production support
• Guide and support the implementation, maintenance and updates of CI/CD pipelines on a cloud environment
• Collaborate with business partners, architects and other groups to identify complex technical and functional needs of systems
• Collaborate with multiple, enterprise-wide distributed performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications
• Design and develop API’s for Omni-channel clients
• Look for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
• Recommend rationalization opportunities throughout the portfolio of applications and systems
• Provide technical guidance to team members and solution architects
• Build APIs and UIs that deal with large volume of transactions and involves large data sets
• Own the full lifecycle for software development, from ideation to production
• Provide programming expertise and business analysis skills within broad business areas; as a senior member of a project team participate in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applications
• Participate in solution designs to meet technical specifications – guide team members and solution architects
• Create and recommend changes in development standards including design, coding and testing standards
• Analyze and develop data models, logical database designs and data definitions across multiple computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server, etc.)
• Comply with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
• Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
• Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
• Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
• Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
• Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
• Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees