Solution Architect

Role & responsibilities

Architecture/ Design Decisions & Technology Evaluations

- Industry Trends, Research, POC, Tools

- Test Plan Reviews

- Production Support Transition Reviews

- Contribute to our architecture community by attending and

participating in Architecture & Design Roundtables, Architecture

Review Boards, and Solution Architecture Guild meetings.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information

Systems, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture and engineering, with a

strong focus on financial services.

• Proven experience with lake house platforms and cloud-native data

ecosystems

• Strong understanding of wealth management and insurance data

domains.

• Hands-on experience with MDM platforms (e.g., Informatica MDM,

Reltio, Semarchy).

• Expertise in API design and enablement (REST, GraphQL,

OpenAPI).

• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and distributed data processing

frameworks.

• Familiarity with data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation) and

metadata management.

• Familiarity with one or more industry standard data transmissions

(DTCC, NFS, DST, etc.) 

• 2+ years of experience in sales & distribution related business

processes and technologies, including at least one of the following

sub-domains: Distribution Management, Incentive Management

(compensation, recognition), Broker Dealer Administration, Insurance

Distribution.

• Skilled leading and/or participating in system design and architectural

activities including technical requirement writing experience and

ability to lead collaboration sessions for important design reviews and

decisions.

• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team-based

environment including employees, vendors, and third-party

contractors.

• Excellent mentoring skills and the desire to contribute to efforts

beyond the scope of the day-to-day project work.

• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to less

experienced team members.

• Experience in AWS cloud application design, development, and

deployment.

• Experience with event streaming and web service protocols like

SOAP, REST, JSON, or Kafka 

• Experience with data development, including database design,

modeling, ETL and scheduling.

• General working knowledge of insurance data, investment data and

/or financial data

• Experience in working with and enabling integrations with vendor /

SaaS platforms

Preferred candidate profile

- Strong partnership & collaboration with Enterprise Architecture

- Creation and/or contributing to governed architecture artifacts,

including Solution, Decisions, Strategies and Roadmaps.

- Hands-on collaboration with Development teams

- Project Team Meetings, status, planning, requirement reviews, etc.

- Design & Code Reviews