Solution Architecture Manager

Location:

4910 Tiedeman Road - Brooklyn, Ohio 44144

The Solution Architecture Manager provides strategic leadership to guide technology decisions at Key across technology and business domains. The individual will lead a team of architects in day-to-day operations and will work with both technology and business teams to help define technology strategy and assuring cross-portfolio alignment.  They will assist in the review and approval of the solution architecture for the delivery of projects. They will help develop and communicate the Bank's technology architecture plan and the infrastructure components required to support it.The Business Architecture Manager provides strategic leadership to guide technology decisions at Key across business architecture areas. The individual will lead a team of business architects in day-to-day operations and will work with both technology and business teams to help define business-technology strategy and assuring cross-portfolio alignment.  They will assist in the review and approval of the solution architecture for the delivery projects.

Essential Job Functions

• Ability to think strategically and align to the organizational readiness
• Ability to influence decisions based on merit
• Independent thinker and self-starter
• Collaborate with solution business architects (SBAs) and domain architects (DAs) to develop more strategic EA guidance for projects.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure that solutions are integrated and aligned with overall enterprise architecture.
• Ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of team initiatives that align the business solution architecture team to Key strategic efforts and goals
• Change agent with business stake holders
• Evaluate short-term business needs required to support key business goals and establish priorities. Consult with business, information and technical subject matter experts to identify how a given business architecture can support these goals.
• Create future state enterprise business architecture models (business capability models and value chain models)
• Maintain and continually evaluate current state business capability models
• Assist in developing technology roadmaps and overall technology strategy with business capability pain point discovery and analysis Identify process improvements, opportunities and trends and introduce them into the strategic planning cycle
• Understanding of bank, LOB, and I.T. Economics; financial analysis
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Industry and competitor research
• Deep business knowledge
• Broad technology knowledge
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.
• Core and Strategic business process knowledge
• Business Transformation and Change management Methodology Skills
• Excellent interpersonal, verbalverbal, and written communication
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills
• Strategic planning, leadership and relationship management
• Understanding of organizational structure and culture
• Ability to manage ambiguity
• Ability to provide conflict resolution
• Risk management

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Master's Degree in Technology or Business desirable
• 7+ years of experience in solution architecture
• At least 3 years in a leadership role desirable
• Experience in architecting enterprise applications across the application, data, and infrastructure domains
• Experience in managing and driving enterprise architecture capabilities within a large corporation
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is pref