BankUnited ยท 2 months ago
Enterprise Solution Architect Payment (Hybrid-Miami Lakes)
Miami Lakes, FL, 33016, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expBankUnited is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect for their Payments Platform to leverage technology solutions that drive the organization's targeted outcomes. This role involves designing and leading the implementation of solutions architecture, managing projects, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture while understanding payment technology trends.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes
Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements
Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative
Provide consulting support to application architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
Understand payment technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation)
Analyze the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise
Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
Assist in the development of a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture)
Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture
Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture
Document all solution architecture design and analysis work
Work closely with the project management office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised
Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.)
Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training
Identifies and reports suspicious activity
Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.)
Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training
Identifies and reports suspicious activity
Qualification
Required
College degree or equivalent management/work experience (At least 10 years), which includes practical experience in Information Technology Minimum 4 years' experience with cloud-based architectures required
5+ years experience in Banking industry, preferably in Payment Solutions required
5+ years experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical architecture, cloud architecture, application development, middleware or database management required
Experience in defining and maintaining Living Target Enterprise Architectures with using tools like Sparx EA, Orbus, or Archi required
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
Strong leadership and customer service skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent planning, analytical and organizational skills
Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
Self-motivated with good business and technology acumen
Desire to learn and keep up with technology trends
Ability to scale up and down the organization levels to have candid conversations in both technology and business areas
Ability to understand the long-term ('big picture') and short-term perspectives of situations
Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives
Preferred
Experience in Payment platforms and good understanding of products supporting real time payments preferred
Familiarity with Fiserv Portfolio or an equivalent preferred
Experience implementing and/or integrating with Plaid, Venmo, and/or Zelle preferred
Experience with SCRUM and preferably SAFe frameworks
Experience with the following architectures and patterns: preferred
REST APIs, SOAP, Pub-Sub messaging
Data ingestion and integration
Microservices & containers
Cloud native application architecture and design preferably on Amazon AWS
Relational and NoSQL databases
OLAP and OLTP capabilities and workload planning
Single page application architecture and design
Integration with Commercial Off The Shelf applications
Experience with UML, BPMN, or preferably Archimate modeling notations preferred
Experience in defining and executing Stress, Performance, Load tests and Systems Capacity planning preferred
Experience in designing and implementing HA architectures preferred
ISC2's CISSP, ISACA's CISA, The Open Group's TOGAF, SANS' GAIC, ISACA's CISM preferred
Company
BankUnited
BankUnited, Inc. (BKU) is a bank holding company with three wholly owned subsidiaries:
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Chief Executive Officer
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