Senior Solution Architect 23 views

Role: Senior Solution Architect
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months Assignment

Job Description:
• 10 years of experience
• Omni Plus Technical Analyst
• Omni Script Experience
• Architecture Design and Documentation
• COBOL is a plus
• Banking or Financial experience

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
• Knowledge of FIS’ 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 is successfully completed
• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external customers and contacts
• Willingly and successfully fulfills the role of teacher, mentor and coach
• May require a thorough understanding of design patterns and their application
• May require a thorough understanding of Model-View-Controller design patterns for web applications
• May require a fluency in developing and understanding sequence diagrams, class models, etc.
• May require in-depth knowledge of networking, computing platform, storage, database, security, middleware, network and systems management, and related infrastructure technologies and practices

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. Post-graduate education is desired.
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 services, web farms, multiple-node systems, etc.)