Lead Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture

Raymond James Financial, Inc.
Memphis, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/11/2024
Lead Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture-2304038

Description

Job Summary
Hands-on, senior full-stack engineer who will lead the Solutions Architecture function for the enterprise. This involves both proactive definition of business-appropriate architecture patterns and assessing designs that application development teams produce for both on-prem as well as cloud ecosystems. You will be the go-to person in the enterprise when it comes to designing solutions whether they are in-house or vendor or hybrid.
You will also help development teams come up with cloud migration strategies in alignment with the overall strategy and priorities established by senior Architecture leadership. You will actively drive and evolve best practices and communicate them across the enterprise partnering with domain architects and lead engineers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable.
  • As needed work through all aspects of solutioning from requirements, design, and build through deployment and evolution.
  • Occasionally you may be asked to augment critical projects through direct involvement and hands-on contributions such as prototyping and developing critical modules.
  • Translates business requirements into working foundational components for platform thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met.
  • Defines strategic direction and develops tactical plans. Works with application and infrastructure teams to provision platform components.
  • Effectively identifies opportunities for change, implements change and introduces new concepts, procedures, policies and tools while providing a clear explanation of benefits and purpose.
  • Involved in working with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and leading by example to other application development groups.
  • Documenting architectural standards, best practices and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient and responsive applications.

Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of
  • Expert knowledge/experience in the following strongly preferred:
  • Full-stack solution design and implementation
  • Designing and implementing high performance enterprise scale distributed systems.
  • Distributed Caching patterns
  • Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures
  • RDBMS Data modeling and optimization
  • Profiling and performance optimization - threading, memory management, JVM optimization etc.
  • Working in an Agile, Continuous Integration/Delivery environment
  • Experience building and implementing solutions for Containerized environments
  • Designing and building Low Latency applications
  • Microservices architecture including defining application boundaries
  • Java, Spring, Spring Boot, ORMs, APIs, Messaging
  • .NET experience (nice to have)
  • NoSQL models and when to use them
  • Modern DevOps practices
  • Test-driven development
  • Domain modelling and Design / Integration patterns
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Industry knowledge - Financial Industry (Capital Markets, Wealth Management) background preferred
Skill and Ability in
  • 12 yr of overall experience
  • Java 8 yr
  • Full-stack systems design and development –10 yr
  • Microservices - 3 yr
Educational/Previous Experience Requirements
Education/Previous Experience
  • Minimum of a B.S. in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and five (5) years of related experience or a combination of education, training and experience as approved by Human Resources.
Licenses/Certifications
  • AWS Solutions Architect preferred.

Raymond James Guiding Behaviors

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
We expect our associates at all levels to:
  • Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
  • Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
  • Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
  • Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
  • Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.
Job Technology
Primary Location US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
Other Locations US-MI-Southfield-Southfield, US-TN-Memphis-Memphis, US-FL-Clearwater-Clearwater, US-FL-Tampa-Tampa, US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
Organization Technology
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Travel No

Eligible for Discretionary Bonus Yes
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