Sr. Solution Architect – FedCash Services

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the San Francisco Fed, public servants with a congressionally mandated mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and we are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, diverse people of the Twelfth District. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. When you join the SF Fed, you become part of a team united in its purpose to promote an economy that works for everyone. We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.

Sr. Solution Architect – FedCash Services

Come and join the Strategic Operations Team for Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) FedCash Services (FCS), helping advance our Cash Application Suite that supports the next generation of cash operations technology. FCS provides critical support and strategic direction to the 28 Cash offices across 12 districts which provide currency and coin services to thousands of financial institutions across the United States. This role is focused on our FedCash platform architecture, which supports ongoing technical services to the FedCash Technical Services (FTS), Currency Technology and Support (CTS), and FRFS Technology with production and operational support for any issues, development, testing, deployment for any updates and enhancements to FCS applications and automation solutions.

What we do:
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. In 2020, we undertook a strategic effort to transform FRFS from a product and support office framework to a national, enterprise-focused organization. The enterprise structure integrated the prior retail, wholesale, cash, and customer relations product and support offices into a new organization, which was further joined by the FedNow team in early 2024. Our North Star strategy, with the new structure, is to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

Job Summary

The Sr Solution Architect is a leader responsible for researching, analyzing, proposing, and designing products and solutions that align with the business and technology needs of the FedCash Services enterprise. Individuals collaborate with business stakeholders, technology providers, and other architects to develop technology and information architectures, strategies, and roadmaps. The level of work required is advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This job does not have any direct reports.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as consultant with developers, Product Owners, Testers, Training, Implementation and Support staff, regarding the interpretation and execution of the FedCash Suite of Applications including the triage of application defects.

• Provide direction, leadership and guidance in the design, development and ongoing support of automation solutions associated with the Cash business line.

• Contributes to the definition and analysis of requirements for the enterprise to support tactical and strategic business objectives.

• Develops an understanding of the enterprise's IT systems and architectures.

• Influences and communicates with all levels of the FRFS, FCS and cash offices on business, information, and complex technical subjects.

• The individual may be assigned to multiple projects within a Program. Position requires ab