Sr. Solutions Architect

Position: Sr. Solutions Architect with financial Domain experience

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 + Months



Accountabilities include:

- Cradle to Grave Solution Leadership: Ultimate accountability and
oversight for driving solutions from cradle to grave for a given domain by
providing leadership and oversight to solution engineers and architects who
are intimately familiar with the application architectures within their
specific domain
- Buy vs Build Analysis: In depth experience in performing Buy vs
Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across
the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the
rationale
- Architecture and design reviews: Play a key leadership role in
architecture design reviews and identify gaps and recommend design
changes. Actively lead and participate in the Architecture community to
drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of PBM technology
while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape
- Develop Reference architecture and implementation: Providing
leadership, coaching and guidance to App Dev, ETS and TAI develop/assemble
PBM-applicable reference architectures for cloud-native applications to be
applied to PBM apps targeted for refactor and optimization.
- Application profile identification: Leverage significant technical
expertise and domain knowledge to identify PBM apps targeted for refactor
and optimization for cloud
- Proof of concept technology support: Lead and drive
proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies
- ?Roll up your sleeves and help clear technical roadblocks?: Advise
and assist App development teams with technical roadblocks such as
performance challenges within a solution
- Cost optimization identification: Engage with appropriate
stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost
efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability and eventual elimination
of technical debt associated with PSS applications.



Position Summary

The Sr Solution Architect is accountable for the business solution designs
for key strategic initiatives including (but not limited to) developing
architectures that represent business, applications/integration, data,
infrastructure, platform, and security architectures.

In this role you will act as the chief SME architect for a key strategic
initiative (s) within PSS IT tower leveraging significant enterprise
experience in architecture and hands-on delivery of solutions to achieve
business outcomes. This includes having the strong ability to look around
the corner at emerging technologies and advise senior leadership around the
strategic technical vision for the tower. You will play a key role in
furthering the modernization journey for PSS IT in alignment with the
Enterprise IT strategy.



What are we looking for in a successful candidate?

- Best in class technical subject matter expertise and domain knowledge
- SME level understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or
more public cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) to deliver large-scale
distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack
- SME level technical skills in the following areas: application and
integration architecture, security and automation along with a working
knowledge of IT operations
- SME level understanding of APIs and microservices-based architecture
is a must


- Domain Driven Design :
- Map the domain scope to Bounded Contexts /Microservices
- Conduct Event Storming to define Strategic Design
- Define road map based on the value realization


Analysing the domain using Event Storming:
Perform Event Storming is done to identify domain events, commands, persona
or entities to facilitate a structured conversation about the domain by
Business and IT.

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