About the Organization
Manufacturers Bank was formed by a group of banking entrepreneurs in June 1962. Our scope is to serve the specialized needs of California middle-market businesses, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, importers, exporters, and service companies, including small businesses and professionals.
Our mission is to be "the bank of choice" for middle market and professional service companies by establishing long term customer relationships and loyalty, providing superior products and services through a core of highly skilled and seasoned bankers.
To achieve our mission to be the 'bank of choice' for middle market and professional services companies, we are focused on our vision to be the premier California regional business bank that can provide the sophistication and expertise of a larger institution with the personal 'high touch' services of a smaller bank.
Specialties:
Commercial Loans and Lines of Credit, Asset-Based Financing, SBA Loans, and Specialized Financing, Real Estate Loans, Cash Management Services, International Services
Description
GENERAL SUMMARY:
Manufacturers bank is looking for a Principal Architect with strong banking and financial industry background, and deep passion for solving business problems. We are looking for a candidate with a proven background architecting solutions across Product and Technology teams for all Commercial (B2B) Banking Technologies. As the Principal Architect, you will own the architecture strategy, solution architecture blueprints and roadmaps for all Commercial Banking technologies. We are looking for candidates with hybrid cloud experience including Azure, GCP and on-prem. This role is key for the Digital Transformation and Enterprise IT platform modernization of the Commercial Bank.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and drive architectural vision to support the Digital Transformation and continued modernization of the Commercial Bank.
• Partner with the other Engineering and Product Heads to successfully deliver commercial banking platform capabilities from design to production.
• Responsible for architectural governance within Bank and aligning with broader SMBC bank holding company level architectural governance practices.
• Responsible for high level recommendation and validation process of all aspects of commercial banking solutions including cloud solutions, bank technology stack, and 3rd party solutions.
• Identify enterprise commercial banking solutions needs, architect appropriate internal solutions and partner and integrate with vendor solutions as appropriate.
• Define the target logical and physical architecture and infrastructure and cloud components needed to support the solutions.
• Partner with technology team to build out the needed components.
• Work closely with other architects and engineers to recommend and design banking solutions that meet customer needs.
• Work with product engineering to conduct proofs of concept, demonstrations, and implement appropriate solutions into production.
• Work with application teams to understand their functions and needs, and design solutions to enable end to end integration.
• Lead and mentor the engineering team on design, technology, and best practices for the Commercial Banking platforms.

Position Requirements

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:
Education: Master / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Technology field.
Experience, Skills, & Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in Banking, Financial Services or Financial Technology (FinTech) field.
• 5 years of experience in leading solution architecture teams and architecting solutions in the commercial banking technology areas.
• 5 years of hands-on engineering and solutions implementation experience.
• Must have technical transformational experience. Working from a legacy On-Prem architecture environment to modernized cloud based architecture.
• Prior experience building solutions for and integrating with Banking as a service platforms.
• Proven experience managing the software development of highly available enterprise-level multi-tier applications and services utilizing tools and technologies including Kubernetes, distributed ledgers, java, and various databases in the cloud.
• Experience of cloud-based infrastructures - Azure and/or GCP.
• AWS Experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in one or more programming and/or query languages.
• Expertise in the latest thinking in DevOps, DevSecOps, automation, and technology innovation for the scaling and automation of banking operations.
• Strong understanding of the commercial banking ecosystem, including service providers of various sizes.
• Broad knowledge of information technology, data/software development principles, emerging technologies, and project management techniques.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills.
• Experience in influencing decision-makers, stakeholders, and team members.
• Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support organizational plans.
• Experienced in producing detailed technical design documentation.
• Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with opensource governance, onboarding, and communities.

Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time
Position
Principal Solutions Architect
Open Date
5/11/2023
Location
Corporate Headquarters - Los Angeles
Salary Range
EOE Statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
CCPA Disclosure
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This position is currently accepting applications.