Sr. Enterprise Architect - Randstad USA

- Chicago Tribune Best Place to Work!

- Pension

- Bonus

- 401kmatch

- Amazing benefits

- 11 paid holidays

- 3 weeks PTO

- Hybrid

What You'll do

In this role, you will be part of an agile development team building enterprise grade capability domains, systems, and data services. You'll be responsible for the strategic design, development, testing, implementation and incremental change of the bank's online banking system, credit rules capability as well as to other internal capabilities & systems.

You will work across disciplines to achieve organizational alignment & commitment for all product, domain, program, and system plans; as well as evaluate and select technologies required to complete those plans. In addition, the Sr Enterprise Architect will provide key technical leadership across the organization supporting the Bank's primary experience entry point, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level.

How you'll make an impact:

• Provide key technical leadership across the organization, from strategic decision-making to project planning.
  
  
• Oversee the incremental change and continuous improvement of internal capabilities and systems.

What you can expect:

• Work with senior management on developing Enterprise level Architectural goals and strategies aligned to Bank strategy.
  
  
• Collaborate within Architecture and across IT disciplines to identify, establish, and maintain principles, policies & technical standards. Collaboratively author, publish and socialize these principles, policies & standards as assigned by Architecture governance.
  
  
• Takes a lead role in promoting agreed best practice techniques and continuous improvement within IT

• Promote a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the Bank.
  
  
• Develop and maintain in-depth business, capability and data domain knowledge (a common taxonomy).
  
  
• Ensure that proposed and existing domain & systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
  
  
• Develop an understanding of the alignment between business and technology strategy and common roadmap for delivery.
  
  
• Understand how business needs fit into the existing systems topology and how they relate to existing business services.
  
  
• Evaluate and communicate with senior management how solution designs meet the business needs of domain, modernization, product, process, sales and operational stakeholders.
  
  
• Analyze journeys, use cases & user requirements to discover and design technical services with functional & non-functional specifications.
  
  
• Design and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining corporate capabilities and software; integrate goals and plans with the unified enterprise roadmap.
  
  
• Ensures newly created API based domain services serve in a common integration point and participate in one common taxonomy while ensuring vertical & lateral transaction/data movements are properly captured, monitored, entitled, observable and logged.
  
  
• Develop, document, and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities in processes.
  
  
• Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to the IT team and business users.
  
  
• Highly skilled at domain driven design, context boundary recognition, functions and microservice decomposition.
  
  
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
  
  
• Develop and apply strong design methodology in partnership with Product Owners and Development leadership to align technical implementations with requirements at an appropriate relation of effort to value.
  
  
• Leverage domain driven design to foster the creation and implementation of end-to-end integrated systems with reusable components and domain data liberation outcomes.
  
  
• Assist with budget proposals and operational expenditure statements in partnership with Solution Architects, Product Owners, business Operatio