Solutions Architect

$124,724 - $124,724/Yr

Regions Financial - Hoover, AL

Full-time - Mid Level

Hoover, AL

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About the position

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Responsibilities

• Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Participates in the design and modeling of architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Collaborates on roadmaps to ensure enough architectural runway to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Promotes the reuse of services, components, frameworks, and infrastructure as code to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Supports team members on the design of deployment strategies and solutions
• Looks for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Makes recommendations to improve application operational efficiency, enhance program usage and increase understanding of the program
• Leads the design of both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Works closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure compliance with Regions' architectural principles and patterns
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Provides feedback to Enterprise Architecture with respect to potential deviations from or necessary modifications to existing architectural principles and patterns
• Works closely with Cyber Security to understand network, application, and data security requirements
• Works with all stakeholders to understand non-functional requirements that may have a material impact on solution architecture
• Works with software delivery teams to ensure that the solutions are observable and secure by design
• Works with business stakeholders and site reliability teams to create service level objectives and agreements
• Provides consultation on complex projects
• Coaches and mentors junior level architects

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and seven (7) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Or a High School Diploma/GED and eleven (11) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with Agile methods
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Advanced knowledge of security design techniques
• Advanced understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, platforms, and cloud native serverless architectures (AWS, Azure a plus)
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift a plus)
• Knowledge of instrumentation, telemetry, and observability frameworks and platforms (OpenTelemetry, DynaTrace, Splunk a plus)
• Knowledge with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems like Salesforce
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.

Benefits

• Health savings account
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance