What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at Motion Recruitment?
Grow your career as a Solutions Architect with an innovative global bank in Rutherford, NJ. Contract role with strong possibility of extension and/or conversion. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 days onsite per week.
Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. This role involves proposing and developing solutions for risk calculations, trade analytics, compliance and regulatory reporting. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Required Skills & Experience
Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. This role involves proposing and developing solutions for risk calculations, trade analytics, compliance and regulatory reporting. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Required Skills & Experience
- 7 years of overall software development experience
- 3-4 years of experience as a Solutions Architecture
- Medium to expert proficiency in Java
- Hands-on and leadership in architecture, design, and technical direction
- Expertise in knowledge and experience in developing complex to highly complex proof of concepts, end to end solutions, cross-integrations, or having subject matter expertise for financial business problems
- Strong experience working with financial instruments, market risk and large-scale distributed computing systems
- Must have knowledge in GenAI solutions. Strong integration of AI/ML principles, especially generative and agentic AI
- Must have experience in AI/ML Deployment projects
- Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles
- Good communication skills
- Ability to guide teams but not replace them in coding tasks
- Technical knowledge & skills:
- Familiarity with Java frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Maven
- Exposure to AI/ML frameworks & tools: Vertex AI, Gemini Pro, Anthropic, OpenMetaData
- Microservices, distributed systems, Kafka/RabbitMQ
- OpenAPI, Swagger; experience with spec-driven development
- Dev tools: Lightspeed, Copilot, GitHub, Devon, Squad, Release on Demand, Friday AI, Olympus
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, containers
- Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree
- Strongly prefer Banking/Financial/Payment experience
- Will involve proposing and developing solutions for risk calculations, trade analytics, compliance and regulatory reporting
- Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions
- Subject matter expert in Gen/AI
- Lead design sessions including performing hands-on Java coding with engineers and stakeholders to create solutions
- Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state
- Design common business functions and capabilities within the ERM ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market
Salary : $85 - $90