Application Architect

Summary:

The Application Architect provides the technical vision and direction within an application domain.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.
• Design, document, develop and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.
• Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, its alignment with the Huntington Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community.
• Communicate and govern use of architectural trends and best practice within the application domain.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication in line with HNB’s federated architect program.
• Conduct product/solution evaluations for architectural domain.
• May mentor technical delivery staff. ​
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Experience working in a consumer-centric company and with teams of technical professionals in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes
• Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity
• Hands on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution
• Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with in-depth understanding of the business requirements
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration
• Experience in consumer/retail and commercial/business banking – branch and digital (online/direct) banking
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems
• Experience with SDLC, waterfall and agile delivery; DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud
• Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence

Areas of Accountability

• Apply expert knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines, and integrate expert knowledge of technical principles & methods of multiple disciplines with knowledge of products/services and internal operations
• Lead contributor on the design of critical path/technology initiatives. Develop enterprise-wide integrated solutions based on business needs/outcomes.
• Able to design and drive complex and innovative business solutions to achieve strategic objectives for the product and business line.
• Solve complex, critical problems related to significant and unique issues. Use extensive research and interpretative thinking. Utilize innovative methods in developing solutions. Work on abstract problems requiring evaluation of intangible variables
• Lead product group with designing, developing, documenting, and analyzing overall architecture of systems, including hardware and software. Provide leadership, coaching, and broad technical expertise to other architects across the team. Make project recommendation based on duration and SDLC, and/or Agile team structure
• Coach and mentor team members as appropriate and support/enhance Agile delivery models
• Lead the design and integration of total system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems, including meeting with outside vendors to learn about cutting-edge technologies available in the industry