Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, Strongsville, OH, Phoenix, AZ – Hybrid (2-3 days a week in office)
Duration: 12 Months Contract to Hire
Only on W2
Working Hours (Flexible): core EST business hours
Travel: possible for planning sessions 1-2 times a year
Job description:
Function of the group:
Support core banking, platform, new account crew, and fraud platform. Create solutions design packages for teams needing a change. Build solution with client approved tools to solve for business need. Act as a liaison between tech and business teams to understand outcomes and optimize the build of solutions.
Industry background:
Combine tools to create a cohesive solution.
Domain experience in Banking or Finance.
Team dynamic:
Breadth of knowledge is important and well rounded. Do not need to be SME in all technologies.
Roles and 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
Technical Skills: Most critical: Public Cloud infrastructure technologies. Deployments in the cloud. Kafka/streaming. Microservice.
- Working knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) developmental modeling language
- Working knowledge of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams
- Working knowledge of and experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container based systems
- Working knowledge of and experience with Kafka, MQ, or similar event or messaging based systems
- Working knowledge of Cloud-Native design principles, such as 12-Factor App
- Working knowledge of Microservice design principles
- Working knowledge of and experience with Public Cloud infrastructure and provisioning (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), such as Azure, AWS, GCP
- 1+ year experience with source code using git or similar distributed version control.
- 1+ year experience with technical documentation creation using Confluence or similar wiki systems.
- 1+ year experience with work assignment issue tracking using Jira or similar ticket systems.
- Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).
Flex Skills:
Actimize is strongly preferred
Soft Skills:
- Extreme ownerships of assignments, delegations or observed needs or opportunities
- Utmost conscientiousness of tasks
- Clearly and effectively document and communicate technical details.
Degrees/Certifications:
Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).
Interview Process:
1- HM- 30 mins
2- Panel interview- technical- 1 hr
