IT Architect Senior - (Remote - US)

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The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we’re faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact–in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

About the role:
As an IT Architect, you’ll help design the foundation for how our global fintech platforms perform and scale. Your expertise will influence selecting, operating and administering systems and software for our environment that supports vital business processes.

What you will be doing:

• Documents and publishes appropriate architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns and frameworks.

• Defines, constructs, supports and provides training for enterprise frameworks.

• Defines and maintains a library of functional component models within and across FIS product lines.

• Documents functional product solutions for key FIS product strategy and product management initiatives leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.

• Documents functional product solutions for key FIS financial services sales opportunities leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.

• Maintains a catalogue of reusable functional application components consumable across applications and product lines.

• Reviews functional and technical designs to identify areas of risk and/or missing requirements.

• Acts as tie breaker on design decisions.

• Documents and communicates opportunities to leverage inter-project synergies, application and enterprise software or infrastructure asset re-use and opportunities to expose application assets for enterprise consumption.

• Communicates system architecture to technical and business audiences.

What you will need:

• Knowledge of FIS products and services

• Knowledge of financial services industry

• In-depth knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles including waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development

• Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design-based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process models, use cases, etc.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors

• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team and time management skills

• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

• Ability to estimate work effort for project sub-plans or small projects and ensure the project is successfully completed

• Positive outlook, strong work ethic and responsive to internal and external customers and contacts

• Willingly and successfully fulfills the role of teacher, mentor and coach

• Technical skill set ideally would include Java, JEE concepts, Spring/Springboot, Apache Maven/Ant, Jenkens build pipeline, UI development with RUF/Angular and associated build tools (nodejs, npm)

• May require a thorough understanding of design patterns and their application

• May require a thorough understanding of Model-View-Controller design patterns for web applications

• May require a fluency in developing and understanding sequence diagrams, class models, etc.

• May require in-depth knowledge of networking, computing platform, storage, database, security, middleware, network and systems management, and related infrastructure technologies and practices

• Expertise with end-to-end systems development life cycles and a background leading large projects.

• Five or more years in a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment, working with relational or hierarchical databases.

• Experience designing and implementing applications in a shared service bureau environment.

• Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design-based tools and techniques.

• A bachelor’s in computer science or engineering, or the equivalent experience – post-graduate education desired.

What we offer you:
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:
Opportunities to innovate in fintech

• Tools for personal and professional growth

• Inclusive and diverse work environment

• Resources to invest in your community

• Competitive salary and benefits

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

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