Sr Solution architect - (Digital/ Banking)

Bank of Montreal • Naperville, IL

1d • Onsite

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 domain s to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems. The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to 4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g., Channels, Sales/Marketing/CRM, Commercial Lending, Collections).

Requirements

• 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
• Solution Architect with the following experience:
• All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight
• Data placement and data integration background
• Strong application security /infrastructure, & deployment exposure
• Enterprise-level Application Architecture Experience with services management ( web services, REST, Web API, ESB , message-based) development, integration and deployment
• Previous Development experience ( Cloud, DevOps, Agile)
• 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.
• 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Banking solution experience is desirable
• Understand or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g., AWS) technologies

Responsibilities

• 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 domain s to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems
• Leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank’s target architecture and standards
• Relates to end-to-end business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX
• Provides data placement and data integration background
• Provides strong application security /infrastructure, & deployment exposure
• Provides enterprise-level Application Architecture Experience with services management ( web services, REST, Web API, ESB , message-based) development, integration and deployment
• Provides previous Development experience ( Cloud, DevOps, Agile)
• Provides multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience
• Provides API design
• Provides API Security , digital/mobile architecture experience
• Provides AI, Insights, Automation experience
• Acts as a technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus
• Documents solution proposals (e.g., solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
• Resolves issues as they arise
• Produces 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
• Learns/internalizes existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately
• Coordinates cross-team communication and facilitates reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums.
• Leads socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.
• Facilitates and leads resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members
• Identifies and communicates risks (business, application, technical) associated with component or application implementation.
• Evaluates 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
• Documents solutions using bank’s standard template
• Documents high-level design and hand-off work to next group in the development pipeline
• Helps extending existing target architecture and develop transition state solution architecture for customer data
• Drives Digital Architecture for Deposits, or for Retail products (retail lending or credit cards)
• Drives cross-product cross-channel customer experience integration architecture retail or commercial customers
• Drives the platform application architecture of a new loan origination platform
• Drives payment process automation solution in backend payment processing (ACH, Check Processing, Lockbox processing)
• Drives various aspects of Collections solution being part of the core architecture team responsible for enterprise-wide collections solution
• Drives and documents solution for risk underwriting and credit risk auto-decisioning integration
• Drives target architecture and roadmap for various banking capabilities

Benefits

• health insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• accident and life insurance
• retirement savings plans

What This Job Offers

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