Top Skills:

** Exceptional critical thinking skills;

** broad technical depth;

** Public Cloud knowledge and technologies. **

**Must have excellent communication skills and work well independently – self-motivated but also able to work collaboratively.

Job Description:

This is an advanced technical position that requires a minimum of 10 or more years of years\' experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-performance e-commerce and financial systems and services. This position will be responsible for conceptualizing and designing innovative end-to-end software architectures that enable critical strategic objectives. Designs produced must meet both business and non-functional requirements while aligning to standard reference architectures.

The Work Itself

• Primary accountability for the position involves establishing and driving clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies across the technology and enterprise landscape.
• Act as SME for project teams in the planning, design, and delivery of technology solutions
• In application architecture: design the inter-system/application structures, advise teams of Ally standard requirements, security standards, methodology and processes.]
• In business architecture: define cross-business function processes, advise teams of consistent processes and common business functions.
• Serve as an esteemed technical mentor to architecture and software development colleagues.
• Provide cost effective solutions that enable the business and maximize flexibility to integrate with other systems.
• Participate in proof of concepts to support the development of architecture principles, styles, patterns and standards for systems across the business, translating corporate strategy into technical strategy.
• Lead cross-functional team to drive peer reviews, gain consensus, and finalize proposed solutions with all stakeholders.
• Communicate and validate architecture technical leadership, program management, business line leadership, and executive level stakeholders.
• Review legacy architecture, identify components strategically aligned for re-architecture, monitor technology usage for end-of-life cycle.

Mandatory Skills:

• 7 years of experience in solutions architect roles, with in-depth knowledge of standards and technologies in IT architecture and infrastructure including Information Security Policy and Procedures, and the software development process.
• Effective communicator with other senior leaders of IT on program strategies and plans and negotiate quality solutions.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise platforms, operating systems, and key business functions and processes
• Understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.
• Ability to lead or interact with and provide architectural design guidance to project teams made up of employee, business partner, and/or supplier resources.
• A minimum of two years experience driving microservices based, Event Driven applications.
• Demonstrated experience developing high performance applications relying on RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with React/AngularJS.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with cloud migrations, particularly with AWS; related certifications a plus
• Containerization experience with any of the following: Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Oracle, etc.
• Experience with professional grade architecture modeling and/or landscaping tools (e.g., BizzDesign, Archi)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other relevant field of study