Senior Solutions Architect

SOLUTIONS SENIOR ARCHITECT (LA/NY/NJ Hybrid)

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

Senior Solution Architect is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining on-premises and cloud native applications. Participates in improving our SDLC, Engineering, and DevOps practices. Develops both front-end and back-end solutions. Designs, develops and maintains solutions, and provides technical guidance to other Team Members. Participates in creating SDLC, Architecture, Design and Coding standards. Identifies complex business problems and participates in generating solutions. Identifies performance issues, analyzes root causes and participates in performance improvement activities. Participates in remedying compliance issues. Documents and communicates problems, designs and solutions.

Technology and Innovation Division

As a member of City National's Technology & Innovation group, you will drive, develop, and maintain solutions for clients and colleagues. This is an exciting time of technology advancement and innovation across the bank, particularly within our technology teams.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Lead the solution architecture of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems
• Writing great quality code driving towards automated testing and validations
• Perform analysis of performance; plan and execute activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production support
• Collaborate with business partners, architects and other groups to identify complex technical and functional needs of systems
• Collaborate with multiple, enterprise-wide distributed performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications
• Design and develop API's for client and colleague facing applications
• Look for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
• Recommend rationalization opportunities throughout the portfolio of applications and systems
• Provide technical guidance to team members and solution architects
• Provide programming expertise and business analysis skills within broad business areas; as a senior member of a project team participate in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applications
• Participate in solution designs to meet technical specifications – guide team members and solution architects
• Analyze and develop data models, logical database designs and data definitions across multiple computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server, etc.)
• Comply with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Must-Have*

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 10+ years of software development experience including UI as well as middle tier and backend
• Minimum of 6+ years of solution architecture

Skills and Knowledge

• Must have Solution Architecture experience leveraging Microsoft Technologies including Windows OS, IIS Web Server, SQL Server Database.
• Must have experience architecting solutions in a financial services environment. Strongly preferred in banking vertical. 
• Must have 6+ years of experience Cloud Solution Architecture Experience (Azure a plus
• 6+ years of experience designing REST APIs
• 6+ years of experience with databases and data modeling / design (SQL and NoSQL plus
• 4+ years of experience designing in the context of workflows and rules
• 4+ years of experience incorporating security into the application architecture
• Experience with developing architecture, coding standards and patterns
• Large application design and implementation experience including architecture and design of modern web, mobile, and integration (cloud/on-premises) platforms
• Significant experience documenting solution designs using a variety of approaches (e.g. using Bizzdesign)
• Must have experience with Agile development methodology including Scrum, XP, FDD, TDD, and SAFe.
• Experience integrating systems and applications with CRM systems like Salesforce
• Experience with following technologies: C#/.Net, Java, Python, JavaScript, CSS, HTML SQL, Azure DevOps, Azure, AWS, Serverless OAuth, SAML.
• Excellent verbal and written communications, interpersonal, and analytical skills is required.
• Nice to have 6+ years of experience Microservices Architecture
• Nice to have 6+Experience working in fully DevOps enabled environment
• Nice to have experience designing using containers and container orchestration platform (AKS) plus
• Nice to have 4+year of experience designing asynchronous/ event driven as well as synchronous systems
• Nice to have proven track record of optimizing the development activities with a strong focus on DevOps and automation
• Nice to have proven track record in generating alternative solution approaches and driving a pragmatic trade-off solution
• Nice to have proven ability to learn new technologies and evaluate for fitness into a specific business context through POCs and other evaluations

Compensation

Starting base salary: $122,535 - $208,715 per year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This job is eligible for bonus and/or commissions.

*To be considered for this position you must meet at least these basic qualifications

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Benefits and Perks

At City National, we strive to be the best at whatever we do, including the benefits and perks we offer our colleagues. Get an inside look at our Benefits and Perks.

INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT

City National Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.

ABOUT CITY NATIONAL

We start with a basic premise: Business is personal. Since day one we've always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and community flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and that legacy of integrity, community and unparalleled client relationships continues to drive phenomenal growth today. City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies.

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