Senior Solution Architect

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

What we Do:
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. 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
As a Senior Solution Architect you will be part of the Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) Solution Architecture team. The Architecture team has accountability for technology choices and solution design across multiple payment systems. You will be a technical leader responsible for researching, analyzing, proposing, and architecting requirements-based products and solutions that align with the business and technology needs of the enterprise by acting as a trusted partner to business. You will collaborate with partners, technology providers, security, and other architects to develop technology and information architectures, solution designs, strategies, and roadmaps for payment systems.
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Your Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership of internal business lines, customer entities, Infrastructure provider and peers to help identify business needs and shapes IT vision by offering appropriate strategic and tactical technical solutions to the business along with a transition roadmap & plan for realizing it.
• Define strategic direction in terms of the technologies, standards, processes, and current/target state architectures across the enterprise.
• Ensure product level solutions adhere to strategic direction in terms of the technologies, standards, processes, and current/target state architectures across the enterprise.
• Work across technology, organization, and business to outline large transformation programs and work with program leads and business lines to deliver on them.
• Partner with other Enterprise, Platform, Security, Data, and Infrastructure Architects to deliver best in class solutions.
• Guide the organization to incorporate architecture design patterns, system best practices and standards in architecture, security, and infrastructure.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendors that might be beneficial to the business line along with conducting vendor evaluation, proof of concepts, MVP definition, and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward.
• Demonstrate leadership and agility when responding to change or when working with ambiguity.

Your Background

• 8+ years of architecture experience in a complex, multi-platform distributed environment.
• Strong problem solving, oral and written communication skills including experience with executive presentations.
• In-depth knowledge of current technology, industry standards and frameworks, information management & emerging technology trends and industry developments.
• Ability to relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs.
• Strong organizational skills to lead competing and dynamic priorities, and multiple concurrent activities.
• Desirable to have banking, financial or payment processing experience.
• Experience defining future state strategy and architecture principles in support of business roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies including Agile and product centric execution models
• Experience developing reference architecture, principles, and standards.
• Ability to drive ideas and influence stakeholders.
• Ability in confident presentation and in writing for a variety of audiences.
• Desirable to have Cloud certifications or experience.
• Desirable to have strategic Data experience.
• Bachelor’s in computer science, Information System, Systems Analysis or related experience

What we offer

• Comprehensive benefits package include medical, d