IT Architect

The IT Architect will be primarily focused on one or more of the following disciplines: 

The Business/Solution Architect is responsible for defining, maintaining and extending the functional 

product architecture for suite of Financial Services Applications. Defines and maintains a product 

architecture that offers flexibility to  Product St rategy and Product Management to configure product 

and services solutions that meet business requirements of clients in the marketplace. Delivers the 

concepts defined in the Open Financial Architecture roadmap in the form of a library of high -level 

functio nal component models made up of interoperating application subsystems, which can be flexibly 

combined into various product and service solutions based on marketplace and business needs. 

Defines the high -level structure of a product solution by mapping mark etplace and business 

requirements to application system components. Arranges functionality of application components, 

assigns component responsibility, defines component interaction and correlates the application system 

components to a product solution as defined by the requirements. This process includes the resolution 

of those requirements best met by existing or enhanced application components and those which will 

be addressed by new application subsystem components (to be built, purchased, or otherwise 

leveraged from an external vendor). 

The Application Architect is responsible for guiding the Application Development team through the 

development process. Ensures development is being done right the first time and has an 

understanding of how their products relate with other products, and ins ures interdependencies are in 

focus. Success is measured on the ability to minimize re -work required after production 

implementation, which may be due to stability, performance, and/or functionality that does not support 

architectural tenets (services -oriented architecture, multi -bank processing, etc.). Makes design 

decisions and technology recommendations to satisfy business requirements based on the product 

roadmap/vision. Establishes a coherent architecture vision of how enterprise software and 

infrastructure technology will be applied to best address current and expected future application needs. 

Continuously communicates the vision in an audience -appropriate manner, both internally and 

externally, from developers and designers to business owners and customers. Makes 

recommendations based upon this vision and associated analysis in order to satisfy tactical, 

operational, and strategic needs. Ensures lead developers and designers are familiar with application, 

software and infrastructure technology ass ets, standards, and requirements along with software 

development best practices. Assists in the identification of patterns, techniques, tools, and processes 

that contribute to effective project execution and business -unit profitability. 

The Software Technology Architect defines and maintains architecture principles and standards 

application development, based on  business requirements. Defines and documents the principles 

and standards to ensure speed and quality of developmen t, while maintaining flexibility and 

maintainability in anticipation of future needs. Equally important are principles and standards to ensure 

robustness of applications to meet needs for performance, efficiency, reliability, availability, scalability, 

and security. Works to understand, assess, and put into practice selected emerging technologies in 

anticipation of meeting future software business needs. Researches industry trends and determines 

what emerging technologies are commercially viable for en vironment and identifies those 

technologies which may be unproven, or “bleeding edge”. This includes product evaluation, reference 

technology proof of concept, and industry trend analysis. Based on research and assessment, current 

technology standards are validated and / or refreshed and extended by newer technologies (e.g. J2EE 

vs. .NET). Defines and maintains software architecture principles and standards for  application

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development, based on business requirements. Designs and provides internal building blocks or 

development components that enhance the speed of development, quality, and stability of product 

solutions. Supports product development by providing the applicati on development community proven 

design patterns, frameworks, templates and models, as well as ready -built components providing for 

common application infrastructure services (messaging, data access, security, etc.) Executes 

evaluation projects and produces working models based upon Product Solution requirements. May 

participate as a member of a project team when implementing critical or “first of kind” technologies. 

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The Infrastructure Technology Architect is primarily focused in the disciplines of selection, operation, 

and administration of “commercial -off-the-shelf” (COTS) systems and system software that make up 

the underlying operating environment in support of the business processes. Provides a road map and 

direction to guide the selection and deployment of technology solutions, and manages the overall 

environment Technology Portfolio. Selects infrastructure technologies in support of business needs. 

Manages the po rtfolio of infrastructure technologies, including the identification, enhancement and 

retirement of viable technologies. Prescribes common building blocks and methods for application and 

selection of these technologies. Manages the infrastructure architect ure process with connection to the 

business and related architecture functions (Business, Software and Application) in order to continually 

evolve the infrastructure disciplines.

Primary Responsibilities

& RESPONSIBILITIES:

Documents and publishes appropriate architecture principles and standards, position papers,

blueprints, best practices, patterns and frameworks.

Defines, constructs, supports and provides training for enterprise frameworks.

Defines and maintains a library of functional component models within and across  product lines.

Documents functional product solutions for key  product strategy and product management

initiatives leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line

architecture roadmap.

Documents functional product solutions for key  financial services sales opportunities leveraging

defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.

Maintains a catalogue of reusable functional application components consumable across applications

and product lines.

Reviews functional and technical designs to identify areas of risk and/or missing requirements.

Acts as the tie breaker on design decisions.

Documents and communicates opportunities to leverage inter -project synergies, application and

enterprise software or infrastructure asset re -use, and opportunities to expose application assets for

enterprise consumption.

Communicates system architecture to technical and business audiences.

Performs other related duties as required.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or the equivalent combination of education,

training, or work experience. Post -graduate education is desired.

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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

Requires the following experience or equivalent combination of education and experience as a

minimum to enter any level of IT Architect job:

Must have led the technology direction for multiple projects and led or presented architecture

concepts outside the realm of immediate workgroup

Demonstrated experience as the application development system designer or technical lead on many

“very large” (i.e., 10,000 hours or more spanning more than 6 months) projects

May also require one or more of the following experience requirements:

Five or more years working in a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment (ZOS, UNIX,

Windows)

Five or more years demonstrated experience in working with relational (and/or hierarchical)

databases

Five or more years demonstrated experience in modern software application technologies

Successful design and implementation of applications in a shared service bureau environment

Experience in building On -Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), batch and reporting systems

Experience in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) for Object Modeling

Experience in building robust and scalable infrastructure architectures (telephony systems, network

, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Knowledge of products and services

Knowledge of financial services industry

In-depth knowledge of end -to-end systems development life cycles (including waterfall, iterative and

other modern approaches to software development)

Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design

based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process

models, use cases, etc.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non -technical audiences of

various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)

Excellent analytical, decision -making, problem -solving, team, and time management skills

Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

Ability to estimate work effort for project sub -plans or small projects and ensure the project 

Responsibilities

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

Requires the following experience or equivalent combination of education and experience as a

minimum to enter any level of IT Architect job:

Must have led the technology direction for multiple projects and led or presented architecture

concepts outside the realm of immediate workgroup

Qualifications

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Knowledge of products and services

Knowledge of financial services industry

In-depth knowledge of end -to-end systems development life cycles (including waterfall, iterative and

other modern approaches to software development)

Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design

based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process

models, use cases, etc.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non -technical audiences of

various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)

Excellent analytical, decision -making, problem -solving, team, and time management skills

Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

Ability to estimate work effort for project sub -plans or small projects and ensure the project 

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