Solutions Architect (Digital Payments)

Solutions Architect (Digital Payments)

Apex Systems is a world class technology services business that incorporates industry insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients' digital visions.

Position

Solutions Architect (Digital Payments)

Location

Hybrid onsite in Quincy, MA

Rate

$75.00 - $90.00 per hour

Duration

6+ months; strong potential for extension / full-time hire

Overview

Our client in the Banking industry a Solution Architect for Digital Consumer Banking, the architect utilizes his/her expertise to recommend operational strategies and plans for the Solutions Architecture function with direct impact on company and IT results. S/he manages most strategic Digital Consumer Banking Architecture accounts and communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance; influencing business decision made by leadership. In addition s/he evaluates and takes in care of the compliance with the organizations technology standards and works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.

Responsibilities

Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segments

Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs

Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department

Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance

Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations

Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps

Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, allowing individual business units to innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage

Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners

Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization.

Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines

Influences business decisions made by leadership

Leads, guides, and mentors best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies

Candidate will perform comprehensive discovery analysis and definition of client issues and documents implementation in the form of a technical ("blue-print") solution.

Determine how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs

Act as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases, throughout the entire life cycle of the product.

Complete current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.

Combine exceptional interpersonal skills, technical aptitude and creative thinking to consult with prospective and existing clients to understand their business needs, map those needs to Santander solutions, requirements.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of experience

Solution Architect and Digital Banking experience

Restful APIs, API-led design

Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, Payments, Billpay, monetary movements, Zelle, FundNow, TransferNow

Integration design experience

Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram

Desired Experience

Cybersecurity concepts: MFA, best practices, encryption standards, device biometrics

Cybersecurity risk assessment

Solution Architect to spearhead the development of the online and mobile banking application

Experience working with applications with significant traffic, AWS, APIs, Events (Kafka / MQ / Event Bridge), ReactJS / Java

Excellent communication, team player, proactive

Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Business owners

Demonstrated experience of tightly collaboration with Technical owners

Fluency in Spanish is not required but nice to have

Additional Benefits

For this opportunity, you will also be eligible for benefits through Apex for the contract period, 401K, medical/health benefits options, a W2 hourly rate, weekly pay, and direct deposit!