Director – Solutions Architect Core Banking

Typically requires 5 to 7 years of related experience in Solution Architecture, and 5 years of experience in application design and complex integrations projects
Advanced knowledge of industry practices, with focus on micro services, cloud application design, API design, messaging design patterns, and domain driven design
Advanced experience in a variety of environments (Cloud, distributed and mainframe, business workflows and services/APIs, databases)
Excellent communication skills
Effective negotiation skills, stakeholder management
Ability to influence at the Director level (unit and other partner units)

Define and socialize technology strategies with senior business leaders
Assess and analyze current state environment and technology choices to evaluate solution alternatives.
Engage vendors to understand their solutions and fit with RBC technology standards and business objectives
Establish data architectures and logical models
Define end to end technical solutions that take into account the enterprise architecture strategies, current state environment and constraints.
Analyze the viability of solutions to meet project timeline, budget and quality.
Create solution architecture blueprints and drive all Athena and ARB certifications to closure
Identifies opportunities to improve solution’s resilience, reusability, complexity, security etc. and build them into project solutions.
Identify technical issues and risks and defines mitigation approach.
Raise awareness of associated tech and operational debt that could arise from tactical approaches.
Provide technical leadership to the project right from the idea creation stage.