Application Architect

Ursi Technologies - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Minneapolis, MN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Application Architect at Huntington Bank is responsible for providing technical vision and direction within the application domain. This role involves developing and maintaining the application architecture and roadmap, ensuring alignment with the enterprise architecture, and communicating architectural trends and best practices. The architect will also mentor technical staff and evaluate products and solutions within the architectural domain.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop, and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture.
• Communicate and govern the use of architectural trends and best practices within the application domain.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB's federated architect program.
• Conduct product/solution evaluations for the architectural domain.
• May mentor technical delivery staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of related experience
• Hands-on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution.
• Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with an in-depth understanding of the business requirements.
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration.
• Experience in consumer/retail and commercial/business banking branch and digital (online/direct) banking.
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems.
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall, and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud.

Nice-to-haves

• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities, and effectively prioritize them.
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions.
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels.
• Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines.
• Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes.
• Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity.
• Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science, and machine learning/artificial intelligence.