City National Bank ยท 3 weeks ago
Solutions Architect- Commercial Lending
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$111K/yr - $190K/yr
6+ years expCity National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, founded in 1954, focusing on helping clients, colleagues, and communities flourish. They are seeking a Solutions Architect to drive the design and implementation of Commercial Lending transformation, collaborating with various teams and ensuring compliance with architectural standards.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Participate in RFIs/RFPs for software and technology evaluations
Participate in the design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems
Participate in POCs to evaluate technologies, patterns, vendor solutions, products etc
Work with direct team members explaining the technical and functional needs of business
Collaborate with multiple enterprise-wide distributed teams to deliver new capabilities
Look for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
Recommend rationalization opportunities throughout the portfolio of applications and systems
Design and develop APIs for Omni-channel, experience, process and system APIs
Prepare design, development and architecture specifications based on NFRs
Develop conceptual and physical solution design artifacts
Prepare and deliver artifacts supporting the SDLC
Analyze and develop data models, logical database designs and data definitions
Comply with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices. Ensure solution architecture is in line with enterprise conceptual architecture
Evaluates application software packages and makes recommendations to management
Participates with other colleagues in new product reviews, tests, and pilots
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
Minimum of 6+ years of software development experience including UI as well as middle tier and backend
Minimum of 4 years of solution architecture
Preferred
Experience in Commercial Lending domain and leading large scale Bank transformation initiatives
Experience with CRM systems like Salesforce
Experience with Loan Origination Systems like nCino
Experience with Servicing platforms like ACBS and AFS
Minimum of 5 years of experience with databases and data modeling / design (SQL and NoSQL plus)
Minimum of 5 years of experience incorporating security into the application architecture
Large application design and implementation experience including architecture and design of modern web, mobile, and integration (cloud/on-premises) platforms
Experience with Agile development methodology including Scrum, XP, FDD, TDD, and SAFe
Enterprise experience with API management toolsets, DevOps, server infrastructure, network infrastructure, caching methodologies, information security, and database technologies
Ability to document solution designs using a variety of approaches (e.g. using UML)
Experience with DDD, TDD and BDD
Ability to quickly learn new technologies and evaluate for fitness into a specific business context through POCs and other evaluations
Experience with reviewing code and suggesting any re-factorings for performance, quality and maintainability and other attributes
Experienced in designing APIs, scale and secure them. Ability to integrate with internal and external systems and secure those integrations
Experience with following technologies: C#/.Net, Java, Python, JavaScript, Angular/REACT, CSS, HTML SQL, AKS, Azure DevOps, NoSQL, Azure, AWS, Serverless OAuth, SAML, APIM
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement
Company
City National Bank
City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services. It is a sub-organization of City National.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Howard Hammond
CEO City National Bank
Fiyaz Khan
Senior Vice President, Structured Products
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