Enterprise Architect - Banking (Wilmington)

Enterprise Architect

Are you ready to join a growing team? CTG is seeking to fill an Enterprise Architect opening for our client based in Buffalo, New York. Duration : 6 months, with potential for extension or hire Location : Buffalo, NY OR Wilmington, DE OR Remote Must have : + 7+ years in cloud architecture, with 3+ years focused on Azure hybrid environments. + Knowledge of institutional banking products and services including capital markets, investment management, structured finance, and M&A. + Technologies : Main tech, Loan IQ, Appian.

Position Responsibilities : + Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Senior Technology leaders of various domains to support strategic decision making. + Provide consultation services to improve domain technology delivery and operational efficiency. + Own and drive the Enterprise Architecture governance process and influence decision making for senior technology leaders by leveraging research and fact-based recommendations for various domains. + Influence senior technology leadership's decision making by synthesizing research and fact-based recommendations from Enterprise Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process. + Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate current state, target state and roadmap of a given domain. + Participate in Agile ceremonies to lead the partnership with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud / infrastructure, security, integration, operations and support, in preparation for S3 / S4 meetings and Architectural Review Board meetings. + Research, understand and apply existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains. + Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals. + Identify and communicate opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements to domain leadership. + Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise level architecture patterns. + Participate in the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture guidance.

Nature and Scope : This position will interface with senior leaders and will require excellent communication skills along with a strong knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use.

Qualifications Required : + Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year's higher education and / or relevant work experience + 7 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patters + Working knowledge of architectural frameworks + Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools + Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and / or solution architecture

Qualifications Preferred : + Graduate degree in business or technical discipline + Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors + Experience working in an Agile environment + Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks + Experience working in the financial services industry + Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services for this role.

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