Become A Senior Solutions Architect

* Overall architecture of thepayments platformand payments capabilities/solutions at the bank
* Includes all aspects of architecture/design - logical, functional, data, deployment/infrastructure, and all quality/non-functional attributes like security, performance/scale etc.
* Requires partnerships with other Architects, who may be specialists in one or more of these aspects.
* Architecture roadmaps, models and diagrams – current-state views, future-state views on a roadmap.
* Maintain alignment with enterprise architecture vision/strategy, corporate strategy, payments business strategy, and other key tenets laid out by senior management/leadership.
* Maintain transparency and posterity on all architecture decisions with respect to payments platform, via organized architecture meetings/forums – publish agenda, meetings notes, decision-log etc.
* Determine architectural feasibility of epics/features/stories on our backlog - help the team groom & size them.
* Aid completion of technical design and delivery, as needed, ahead of and within development sprints.
* Help us stay ahead of our competition by staying up to date on technical/architecture trends in our space
* Attend related technical and industry conferences.
* Help us hire and retain technical and non-technical talent.
* We are also aiming to transform our entire software development and release process to be less manual and discrete - ship working software incrementally, more frequently, aided by a continuous & automated code, build, test, deploy processes all the way up to highly controlled production environments.
* This person will partner with our DevOps Leads/Engineers to Architects and re-factor the platform & associated applications to achieve that vision.
* Characteristics we are looking for:
* Technology Generalist – broad/general familiarity with many different tech stacks, programming languages and frameworks, with significant depth in one or more.
* Actual experience writing code as a Developer in a modern technology stack preferably recent experience, and preferably in Java.
* Great Communicator – clear/crisp communication; someone who can bridge/straddle technical and non-technical, and influence leaders at all levels in business and technology organization using slide decks, or code/proof-of-concepts/demos, and everything in between.
* Effective Leader
* Someone with conviction, who is not afraid to debate ideas backed by facts/industry-research etc., but also knows when to seek leadership help to build alignment top-down.
* Experience leading technical negotiations between technical and business teams, as well as among peer architects.
* Up to date on Agile, DevOps and Cloud – knowledge of its benefits and actual experience implementing it, or driving it as a change-agent/change-champion.
* Friendly and positive.
* Enjoy working in a team, with experience leading working sessions and providing support/guidance to team members.
* Capable of influencing others, and disagreeing with ideas in a positive manner

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* This role will include, but will not be limited to the following:
* Overall responsibility for the Technical Strategy and Solution for specific opportunities and initiatives
* Responsible for understanding VMware’s customer IT environment/ requirements and how to align VMware’s technical value proposition
* Coordinates VMware’s opportunity specific technical solution with potential partners, VARS or Federal System integrators
* Leads Technical strategy and solution design reviews
* Coordinates and constitutes the requisite technical resources per opportunity or initiative (matrix environment)
* Participates in development of NDA, teaming agreements, relationships and roles
* Participates in development of the overall program specific Capture schedule.
* Participates in the identification, qualification and prioritization of an opportunity pipeline
* Participates in Customer or Partner sales calls
* Participates in the authoring of technical proposals, including technical volumes in support of VMware's Pursuit & Capture Organization
* Ability to travel to customer sites/conferences, (50%)
* Ability to obtain a US Government Security Clearance at the SECRET level and above
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* Analyzes business requirements to determine and recommend solution design based on current architecture strategy.
* Analyzes the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
* Analyzes technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
* Designs and leads the implementation of an ESA based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
* Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring ESA compliance.
* Develops a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state (as defined by the ESA).
* Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
* Collaborates with other solution architects and project leaders to identify drivers and triggers that require a modification of the solution architecture based on project business requirements.
* Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, technology, information) and financial impact of a recommended solution architecture.
* Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
* Work closely with the program management office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
* Develops reference architecture and ensure project and solutions delivery to that target architecture.
* Coaches other solutions delivery personnel in the design of solution design best practices

* Translates business strategy and objectives into an enterprise technology architecture which supports the following capabilities:
* Unified Communication Services
* Cisco Jabber
* Cisco WebEx and Spark
* Enterprise webcasting
* Integration with other UC technologies (Microsoft, Avaya etc.)
* Operations
* Establishes standards and provides documentation for standards and current state designs; Acts as forward thinking and innovation source for the areas of responsibility
* Supports/guides solution architects by promoting best practices, using reference architectures, ensuring standardization across solution architectures and reflecting the technology architecture strategies in their solutions
* As a member of the Digital Workplace services architecture review team, ensures that solution architectures are aligned with the enterprise technology architecture
* Continuously researches and keeps up with latest trends, emerging technologies, new vendor products, new ways of doing things, assessing their applicability to company end users and incorporating them into the enterprise technology architecture
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline and/or equivalent work experience
* CCNP/CCIE certification
* years of experience architecting solutions
* Experience working with and/or extensive knowledge of multiple technologies in the areas of unified communication services (e.g. telephony, video conferencing, chat, messaging, fax - unified communication
* Cisco and Microsoft UC.), infrastructure/platform services (e.g. connectivity, network, archiving, back up, high availability, disaster recovery), security services (e.g. identity and access management, directory services, network security, platform security, vulnerability management) and operations (e.g. monitoring, incident management, service management)
* Development of a digital workplace and digital worker to modernize the unified communication computing environment
* Ability to innovate and develop business ROI at an enterprise level
* Ability to understand and apply abstract architectural concepts at an enterprise level
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively convey architectural concepts to business and technology peers as well as senior management
* Effective influencing and negotiating skills

* Participate in deeply technical architectural discussions with customers, partners and Oracle field personnel to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams.
* Author or contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, handbooks and presentations.
* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
* Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support