Architect - Banking Applications

CTG is seeking to fill an Enterprise Architect - Banking opening for our client based in Buffalo, New York.

Duration: 12 months, with potential for extension or hire

Location: Buffalo, NY OR Wilmington, DE OR Remote

Must have:

• 7+ years in cloud architecture, with 3+ years focused on Azure hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of institutional banking products and services including capital markets, investment management, structured finance, and M&A.
• Technologies: Loan IQ, Appian, nCino, loan origination and AFS vision loan servicing

Position Responsibilities:

• Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Senior Technology leaders of various domains to support strategic decision making.
• Provide consultation services to improve domain technology delivery and operational efficiency.
• Own and drive the Enterprise Architecture governance process and influence decision making for senior technology leaders by leveraging research and fact-based recommendations for various domains.
• Influence senior technology leadership’s decision making by synthesizing research and fact-based recommendations from Enterprise Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process.
• Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate current state, target state and roadmap of a given domain.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to lead the partnership with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations and support, in preparation for S3/S4 meetings and Architectural Review Board meetings.
• Research, understand and apply existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains.
• Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals.
• Identify and communicate opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements to domain leadership.
• Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise level architecture patterns.
• Participate in the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture guidance.

Nature and Scope:

This position will interface with senior leaders and will require excellent communication skills along with a strong knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
• 7 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patters
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
• Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and/or solution architecture

Qualifications Preferred:

• Graduate degree in business or technical discipline
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services for this role.