Enterprise Architect (Cloud Apps and Security)

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Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

The Enterprise and Solution Architecture focuses on 3 key pillars to drive positive disruption and push innovation:

• Modernize to Transform
  • Drive and define technology strategy, target state IT architecture and patterns for enterprise initiatives
  • Collaborate with Product, Tech Dev and align with shared services teams such as Infrastructure, Security and Data in delivering organizational goals and consistent alignment with engineering
  • Identify opportunities and corresponding solutions to enhance customer/colleague experience via simplification, unifying systems, data or processes
• Rationalize to Simplify
  • Proactively surface legacy technology modernization opportunities to minimize complexity, drive cost savings, lower TCO and mitigate operational risks
  • Identify business and technology capability rationalization/consolidation opportunities across the enterprise and domains
  • Drive new business enablement / solving operational challenges
• Govern to De-Risk & Enable the business
  • Drive technology standards, common reusable components, and policies across the organization to ensure consistent use of technology and optimize costs
  • Govern the introduction of new technology or vendor platforms across the organization to identify and remediate architecture risks, eliminate capability overlaps and ensure alignment with corporate direction
  • Responsible for technology lifecycle management risks, certification and compliance requirements

What you will be doing

A short summary of the position would be helpful as an intro to the position.

Enterprise Architect (Cloud Apps) performs the necessary leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks related to the development of an enterprise technical architecture based on cloud computing. Defines, designs and delivers cloud architecture for products and platforms operating in a hybrid cloud environment. Provides technology direction and guidance for strategic projects/initiatives aligned with enterprise architecture principles and considerations.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Infrastructure teams on defining, designing and delivering cloud specific technical architectures, patterns, technical quality, risks and operability of cloud architecture solutions.
• Create the conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-based solutions for infrastructure and platforms
• Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches to address challenging development and integration problems with cloud environments.
• Perform research activities to identify emerging technologies and trends that may affect the enterprise
• Maintain awareness of vendor/product industry developments, regulations and trends and identify potential impacts to the enterprise
• Assist in vendor product selection activities including the development of vendor/product evaluation models
• Design and oversee efforts in building effective FIS specific Proof of Concept demonstrations and socialize the results throughout the enterprise and all levels of management
• Provide technical/business consulting to internal FIS organizations and client-sponsored activities outside of FIS
• Support the modernization and transformation of our products and platforms, including rearchitecting our assets based on legacy technologies.
• Ensure that solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment
• Develop proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
• Lead architecture governance team discussions and provide a strong voice on critical decisions.
• Utilize advanced leadership skills especially in the areas of persuasion, influence, conceptualizing solutions, and problem solving.
• Communicate complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.

What you bring:

• Seasoned enterprise architect with hands-on experience in cloud-based application and security architecture, target state architecture definition, strategic roadmap development for large transformation initiatives/programs.
• Seasoned enterprise architect with hands-on experience in architecting and designing modern cloud-based applications serving thousands of concurrent users.
• Must be well versed in contemporary applications patterns and practices (e.g., 12-factor apps).
• Serve as the senior-most cloud expert to lead app modernization discussions and solutioning based on private/public/hybrid cloud deployment models. Deeply experienced in modern DevSecOps practices, pipelines and tools.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting DMZ-based applications and security practices for risk mitigation (e.g., DDoS attacks, threat detection and response etc.).
• Have prior experience in designing high availability and cross-geo disaster recovery options for mission-critical apps.

Added bonus if you have:

• Cloud Computing certifications
• Hands-on experience in building reusable components, frameworks and enterprise assets.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed organizational structure
• Leading architecture reviews and technology assessments

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