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Western Alliance Bank Corporate Solutions Enterprise Architect in Grove City, Ohio
Job Title: Corporate Solutions Enterprise Architect Location: Block 23 What you'll do: Architect III What we are looking for: The Corporate Solutions Enterprise Architect is accountable for solution design, architecture strategy and approach for providing solutions that support our shared services functions (e.g. HR, Finance, AML/Fraud, Risk Management, Legal & Compliance). This challenging role requires an ability to understand critical internal business functions supporting the enterprise & translates those needs in to designs that develop, orchestrate, and consume domain specific or enterprise wide capabilities. Additionally, strong strategic & critical thinking skills, as well as communication and collaboration skills, are required to develop relationships with multiple business partners & engineering teams to enable value add capabilities and services for our business partners that support our growth trajectory. This position is onsite only (4 days onsite and 1 remote day) located in either of the following locations: Phoenix, AZ / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH Understands business drivers and business capabilities across our Corporate Systems domains to provide innovative solutions leveraging technology to realize business value. Develop architecture strategy, roadmap, & architecture designs for products & services supporting Corporate Systems platforms & capabilities. Develop artifacts, such as standards & patterns, that can be leveraged to optimize buy vs. build decisions & make best use of modern technology offerings from SaaS & Public Cloud providers. Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to support & achieve business growth objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise - both in new product development and cost/capability optimization. Participates in M&A efforts to assess use of cloud capabilities & develops integration approaches to optimize the holistic environment & leverage the best IP across the whole of the business. Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations. Works closely with the Corporate Systems Application Engineering & Support teams to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements. Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application. Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of solution designs. Evangelizes & supports efforts to drive delivery functions towards Agile & DevOps/FinOps delivery models. Qualifications: 15 years of related experience, with 5+ years leading IT architecture and/or architecting & designing enterprise scale applications, & 5+ years working in Financial Services. Have a technology upbringing with strong software development and design background. Full stack development experience is a definite plus. Knowledge and experience with Cloud technologies; experience with Azure technologies is preferred. Minimum of five years of experience working with an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions. Deep understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to n