Vice President – Solution Architect II

Vice President – Solution Architect II

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 12+ years of experience in technology and architecture roles (distributed stack) required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Expert knowledge of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of BNY applications, Bank standards, infrastructure, and architectural design / solutions.
• Experience working on solutions that span across multiple business units or products.
• Experience in agile development preferred.
• Strong communication skills with ability to align on complex technical decisions.
• Ability to coordinate across business and tech stakeholders.
• Problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of high-quality architecture and design solutions that complies with bank policies.
• Work with the architecture community, application development teams, infrastructure engineering, and other stakeholders in developing technology and business solutions.
• Strategize and contribute to enterprise level technical initiatives on architecture and design.
• May also have managerial responsibilities such as recruits, directs, motivates and develops staff, maximizing their individual contribution, their professional growth and their ability to function effectively with their colleagues as a team.
• Ensure high quality delivery of the company’s architecture and design services. Defines the target state architecture for domain-specific initiatives.
• Lead research, definition and implementation of architecture governance and design disciplines for business solutions. Defines and promotes common architecture designs, methodology, standards, and patterns across the enterprise.
• Strive to drive more value out of the bank’s information technology assets. Designs stable and flexible high-performance solutions, maximizing reuse and avoiding redundancy.
• Provides architecture consulting services on more complex issues throughout the enterprise.
• Contributes to the achievement of multiple teams’ objectives.
• Lead the definition and high-level design of an architectural solution for a specific Platform; develop proof-of-concepts and explore alternatives to help pods to make architectural decisions; be involved in planning and budgeting activities.
• Synchronize architectural solution(s) across pods and resolve differences and dependencies; manage interdependencies with architectural solutions of Platforms.
• Coordinate with other Platform Group Leads to create reusable and scalable architectural components within the technical roadmap.
• Monitor and report the status of projects and applications within the Platform to ensure alignment with strategic direction from Architecture Lead as well as industry standards and best practices.
• Ensure solutions and designs are compliant with technology domain architecture as defined by the Architecture Lead.
• Aggregate and analyze architecture related operational reports, KPIs and KRIs for the Platform.
• Provide guidance to technology teams and business partners in understanding the architectural options and technology choices that account for cost, risk, and time to delivery while leveraging strategic enterprise assets.
• Anticipate architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends (i.e. future focused).
• Collaborate/ Partner with other Platform Group Leads to ensure smooth navigation of change management tollgates, particularly Permit to Build (architectural design peer review process).
• Drive Architecture Decisions within Group and operate across Platforms, collaborating with Engg leads/Product Leads driving Commercial, Resiliency Outcomes.
• Provide the solution architecture for the group by collaborating with multiple teams such as engineering, architecture, infrastructure etc., and bring Technology Acumen and Gravitas that can only be found with years of Industry Experience in Solutioning across varied Technology Ecosystems.
• Target State Architecture for DSS includes complex integrations across multiple consumer applications and types of data. It involves cutting-edge technologies or emerging trends as well as high levels of regulatory compliance and security requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in agile development preferred.
• Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas.
• Solution-oriented enabler mindset.
• Eagerness to ‘roll up the sleeves’ in execution and learning; pushes the team to do the same.