Job responsibilities
- Lead a team of Architects and partner with Technology and Product leaders, Risk & Controls, Data & Analytics peers to align and deliver on the architecture strategy
- Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
- Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
- Establishes and leads an architecture governance body
- Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Experience in architecting complex large scale distributed systems with resiliency (kafka)
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud native experience
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Deep expertise with products related to APIs, SDKs, Micro services’ frameworks, Data platforms, Data Streaming and Stream processing technologies
- Experience engaging stakeholders across an organization to set strategy, align on priorities and deliver to a roadmap while managing to changing business needs and requirements
- Experience working at code level
- Experience building configurable, scalable, extensible, highly available (SaaS) platforms is a plus