Job#: 2081820
Job Description:
Apex Systems is a world class technology services business that incorporates industry insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients’ digital visions.
Position: Solution Architect (Digital Banking)
Location: Hybrid 2-3 days in Quincy, MA
Duration: 6+ Months; Strong potential for extension / full-time hire
Overview:
Our client in the Banking industry a Solution Architect for Digital Consumer Banking, the architect utilizes his/her expertise to recommend operational strategies and plans for the Solutions Architecture function with direct impact on company and IT results. S/he manages most strategic Digital Consumer Banking Architecture accounts and communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance; influencing business decision made by leadership. In addition s/he evaluates and takes in care of the compliance with the organizations technology standards and works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.
Responsibilities:
• Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segments
• Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs
• Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department
• Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance
• Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations
• Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps
• Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, allowing individual business units to innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage
• Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners
• Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization.
• Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines
• Influences business decisions made by leadership
• Leads, guides, and mentors best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies
• Candidate will perform comprehensive discovery analysis and definition of client issues and documents implementation in the form of a technical ("blue-print") solution.
• Determine how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs
• Act as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases, throughout the entire life cycle of the product.
• Complete current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.
• Combine exceptional interpersonal skills, technical aptitude and creative thinking to consult with prospective and existing clients to understand their business needs, map those needs to Santander solutions, requirements.
Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years of experience
• Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience
• Restful APIs, API-led design
• Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, Payments, Billpay, monetary movements, Zelle, FundNow, TransferNow
• Integration design experience
• Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram
Desired Experience:
• Cybersecurity concepts: MFA, best practices, encryption standards, device biometrics
• Cybersecurity risk assessment
• Solution Architect to spearhead the development of the online and mobile banking application
• Experience working with applications with significant traffic, AWS, APIs, Events (Kafka / MQ / Event Bridge), ReactJS / Java
• Excellent communication, team player, proactive
• Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Business owners
• Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Technical owners
• Fluency in Spanish is not required but nice to have
Additional Benefits:
For this opportunity, you will also be eligible for benefits through Apex for the contract period, 401K, medical/health benefits options, a W2 hourly rate, weekly pay, and direct deposit.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
