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Solutions Architect @ American Express

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 Solutions Architect

Job Description

Transform our business and your career.

Theres no way around it, it takes a consultative approach and IT experience to drive business success. If you have both, heres some of what youll be doing:

  • Ensuring strategic alignment to Platform Blueprint roadmaps and enterprise standards; may be called on to be the Technology Platform Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
  • Focusing on crossplatform integration to leverage and optimize platform capabilities
  • Performing handson architecture design work and participating in design and code reviews
  • Coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture
  • Ensures the engineered environment meets the specification in terms of business requirements, application design and infrastructure requirements, i.e. accountable for the platform integration performance and efficiency
  • Interacts with business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that may affect business solution delivery
  • Provides architectural governance, reviewing projects to ensure alignment to architectural and technical strategy by driving Technology Platform to Platform Architecture Review (PAR) approval level
  • Ensures accurate asset information is documented and recorded in the appropriate repositories for the assigned portfolio


Minimum Qualifications
  • 4-5 years of hands-on programming experience meaningful to the assigned Technology Platform in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

  • Advanced hands-on experience with application solution architecture design and end-to-end software development of complex distributed (multi-tiered) systems

  • Prior experience in multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of architectural concepts (business, data, technical and solution) and track record of implementation

  • Extensive experience using a systems analysis and design methodology that is applicable to an agile product environment

  • Advanced to authoritative level knowledge and understanding of solution architecture, complex application systems design and platform integration via modern approaches (i.e. RESTful APIs)

  • Channel-specific solution architecture skills as required by the assigned platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization techniques

  • Excellent interpersonal skills (verbal and written), as well as effective consultative and influential leadership skills

  • Well versed in current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines

  • Strong business insight with the ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context

  • Bachelors Degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field required; advanced degree preferred

  • Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth environment

  • You know and can admit when something is not great. You can recognize that something youve done needs improvement

Job Classification

Industry: Banking
Functional Area: IT Software - System Programming,
Role Category: Programming & Design
Role: Programming & Design
Employement Type: Full time

Education

Under Graduation: Any Graduate
Post Graduation: Post Graduation Not Required
Doctorate: Ph.D/Doctorate in Any Specialization

Contact Details:

Company: American Express
Location(s): Pune

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Keyskills:   Solution architecture Computer science Product engineering Interpersonal skills Architecture SOA Architectural design Performance optimization Solution delivery Data architecture

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