Solutions Architect

Req ID: 74069

Location: Tulsa -TUL, Remote

Areas of Interest: Information Services

Pay Transparency Salary Range: $140,000 - $175,000

BOK Financial (BOKF), Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, BOK Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: BOKF) is a top 25 U.S.-based financial services holding company with operations in ten states - Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas/Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The company began more than 100 years ago in Tulsa and has successfully diversified into a variety of industries, businesses and geographies

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Summary

At BOK Financial, our success starts with our incredible talent. Are you an experienced Solutions Architect who enjoys collaborating with a diverse team of experts to create and shape amazing technical solutions that support the delivery of business strategy? This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help establish a new Solution Architecture group within EA to help unlock business agility. Bring your passion for people, technology, new ways of working, and transforming the way we deliver solutions. It's an exciting time to join us!

Job Description

A Solutions Architect is a strategist and hands-on technical leader that guides the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. Architects are charged with working closely with product management to interpret business needs and translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint. Assessing technology by identifying future state, assessing current state, identifying gaps between the states, and guiding change to reach the future state. Applying technology by managing and developing the architecture for a broad scope of projects and products, developing roadmaps for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio, and acting as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes. Providing enterprise guidance through deliverables like standards and definitions, reference models and architecture designs as well as supporting communities of practice while guiding and helping agile teams align with overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance. Effectively communicating with IT management, project managers, other architects, development teams, and line of business management to provide transparency and properly manage expectations.

Possible Succession Step: Enterprise Architect, IT Team Manager

Peers: Network Architect, Storage Architect, Systems Architect, Data Architect

Team Culture

Our team is committed to delivering the best IT solutions for our lines of business. We collaborate with other IT members, as well as our business partners. It is a fast-paced, ever-changing yet fun environment with a number of new exciting initiatives. The mission of IT is to Enable Business Success and Create Raving fans. We do this through our shared quest to continuously improve, while simultaneously looking at ways to optimize our technologies and processes. We are a determined, smart, and collaborative group that is eager to welcome you to the team.

How You'll Spend Your Time

You will develop and deliver conceptual, logical, and physical architectures and designs that are in direct alignment with the software requirements and business needs, research innovative approaches to solutions and create prototypes to prove out ideas. This position is a strategist and hands-on technical leader for a single project or domain who provides technical leadership to the group and mentoring senior developers.

You will take ownership of a portfolio of solutions and provide strategic, architectural, and technical leadership to technical resources ensuring solutions integrate well with the existing or defined IT architecture and meet defined technical performance requirements. You will also be a strategic partner with IT and LOB management influencing decisions with innovative, and well-supported ideas.

You will develop, test, debug and document high performing multi-platform, distributed applications, provide application support before and during emergencies, performing root cause analysis, designing application disaster recovery processes, and determining metrics of application performance for tracking and remediation. You will encourage development consistency for cleaner code that lowers costs, provides faster development, and smoother deployment.

You will take a mentor role, sharing technical and product knowledge with other development team members, train others in new technologies, especially those identified in prototyping and proof of concepts. You are charged with identifying future state, assessing current state, identifying gaps between the states, and guiding change to reach the future state.

You will help developers learn how to properly architect solutions and to understand and support IT Governance policies and procedures and contribute to IT Governance policies, effectively using these policies when vetting and architecting solutions.

Education & Experience Requirements

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field and 10+ years of technical experience. Additional experience can be used in lieu of a degree. Technology or architecture certifications are preferred. It is also preferred that the candidate have Banking and Financial Service experience. Preferred: TOGAF, Zachman or other formal Architecture framework or process experience. Experience with DevOps, Agile (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc.), Six Sigma, or SDLC methodologies.

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming languages and frameworks e.g., Microsoft .NET, ASP .NET, C#, Java, Python, and others

Deep understanding of clean coding and architecture techniques, SOLID design principles, domain driven design (DDD), and other enterprise architecture concepts

Understanding of functional programming concepts and their application in modern distributed architectures

Experience with successfully navigating large, complex projects

Knowledge and experience with modern system integration techniques and patterns

Knowledge and experience with system modeling and diagramming approaches

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Understand information security and industry security best practices

Understand system performance and how to optimize code and enterprise interactions

Possess expertise in the development of multi-platform, distributed applications

Demonstrated experience consistently delivering high quality work

Experience with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), microservices, and cloud architectures and tools

Working knowledge of complex job scheduling systems and how to create job schedules which run processes for the entire enterprise.

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BOK Financial is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long term careers of our employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, our customers and your own career!

Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!

BOK Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.

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