Iris's client , a leading financial institution is looking to hire a Solutions Architect for a long term role.Senior Solutions ArchitectJob DescriptionThe Senior Solutions Architect candidate requires a strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems. The role will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders such as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM), Retail Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Internal Audit, O&T Business Risk Control and Citi Chief Administrative Office.Responsibilities:The candidate is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiateCreate solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscapeInterfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutionsConduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target stateDesign common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to marketOwn and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysisCommunicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teamsProvide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.Qualification10+ years of overall relevant banking, financial services experienceAt least 10 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.Excellent communication skillsBanking/Financial/Payment experience is a plusExpertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutionsExperience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architecturesExpertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principlesExpertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and toolsExpertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplinesAwareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriateExperience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teamsPassion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve productsExperience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and auditsAbility to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levelsConsistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communicationCloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plusDemonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teamsAbility to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizationsAbility to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetingsEducation:Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree/MBAThanksRashi AgarwalIRIS Software