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Insight Global Solutions Architect in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Solutions Architect to join a team with one of our top financial services clients. The Solutions Architect is responsible for providing support, guidance, and expertise to IT programs and projects from ideation to closure, performs research, identifies business and information technology trends and best practices, and recommends appropriate solutions, methodologies, and strategies for achieving organizational goals. This position will work closely with the Enterprise Architecture team plus bring together business requirements with innovative technologies and guide the strategic solution definition.

The candidate should bring in top-level skills in enterprise systems and collaborate to transform technical debt into innovation opportunities. The ideal candidate will have a broad range of knowledge, but also be able to become an expert in key areas.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

Serve in the role of a Solution Architect within the enterprise technology organization. We are seeking an experienced architect who can communicate technology solutions to leaders, technical peers and business partners via roadmaps, conceptual diagrams, and solution documents. You should be thoughtful and possesses both technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to partner with internal and external teams to develop scalable, flexible, and cutting-edge solutions. You will be expected to collaborate with peers within the company to define and execute the organizations technical vision.

Ensures the solution is fit for purpose and use by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers, and evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions

Analyze current technologies used within the company and develop steps and processes to improve

Influence, Negotiate and Lead technology alternative evaluations and implementations across the Technology and Line of Business organizations

Ability to work across a variety of third-party applications and internal built solutions

Consults the business to clearly understand the business problems and technology to understand the technology challenges of the solution and finds creative solutions through practical experiments and POCs.

Ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily.

Verify conformance to architectural patterns, practices, and enterprise/departmental procedures and policies

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .

   

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Skills and Requirements

Able to understand business problem and then carefully spell out solutions that everyone in the organization can understand

8+ years delivering enterprise-wide Data Architecture, with strong understanding of platforms, integration (sourcing and provisioning) and governance

10+ years delivering enterprise-wide technology solutions across multiple business units within large organizations

Experience implementing Big Data solutions (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, etc.)

Extensive experience with architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications

Experienced in developing or architecting IT solutions

Ability to create and drive the implementation of enterprise-level technology strategies

Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with the following programming languages: .NET, C++, Java, JSON

Comfortable challenging the status-quo

Strong written and verbal communication skills Knowledge of architecture frameworks i.e., TOGAF

Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Curious and skilled at analysis

Previous work experience within Financial Services/Banking null

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.

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