Solution Architect

Job brief

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join a larger Fintech Company to contribute to building and translate requirements from functional analysts into business architecture.

Ideal candidate Business/Technical knowledge distribution is 6/4 meaning the candidate is more Business/Financial focused but still has a strong Tech foundation.

Requirements

• Translate requirements created by functional analysts into business
  architecture/documentation that will provide context supporting the technical design/blueprint for the solution.
• Communicate and describe the solution through architecture and design artifacts.
• Ensure the solution aligns with any roadmaps established by associated business and technical stakeholders.
• Drives alignment and buy-in across the development and business teams.
• Gather product requirements from customers.
• Evaluate, and when necessary prototype, alternative solutions to determine the most appropriate approach for each solution.
• Draft business cases(s) and/or value propositions to support each solution. 
• Prepare functional specifications that can be understood by customers and internal development teams.
• Transition finished projects to support groups.
• Develop and maintain business process flows (familiarity with process flows for financial services companies, and business process flow tools such as ARIS, HOPEX, VISIO preferred)
• Solid business architecture skills (e.g., system context, asset decomposition).
• Technical expertise, especially with AWS (they use AWS 97% of the time).
• Familiarity with AWS services like EMR, Glue, S3, and SQS is important.
• Familiarity with Vision and Rx is a bonus but not required.
• Good soft skills to effectively work with tech partners.