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Job order - J0817-1065 - Contract
Title IT Solution Architect
Category Architecture
City New York, New York, United States

Job Description IT Solution Architect

Position Description
CGI is seeking to hire an IT Solution Architect in support of our Strategic Investment Banking client in New York City.


Your future duties and responsibilities
• Define solution architectures and high-level software designs by creating architectural models and the documentation required by the SDLC.
• Responsible for all aspects of the solution architecture (i.e. maintainability, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption, etc.) with the objective to drive the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership.
• Responsible for discovering, promoting and reusing reusable software components and SOA services.
• Undertake peer reviews, and have reviewed solution architectures and designs, taking into consideration specific business and technical constraints, requirements and dependencies.
• Ensures that architectures of solutions conform to the defined principles, blueprints, standards, patterns, etc., for solution architecture as well as for enterprise architecture.
• Carries out reviews of software designs and documentation within IT teams and business stakeholders.
• Assists the business in defining data requirements.
• Supports the implementation of processes and procedures that enhance the overall performance and productivity of Data Architecture.
• Ensure conformance to defined SDLC processes and reuse of shared enterprise assets where possible.



Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• 15+ years experience with SOA Architecture and Microservices Implementation
• Hands-on with Java and ESB, BPM, BAM, BigData and RPA
• Experience with Application Composition for Cloud/Container based Infrastructure
• Have experience delivering PAD, Architecture diagrams, Best Practices, etc.
• Must interact with business and attend architecture meetings
• Work and follow up with different teams and help them in on boarding/migration to the new architecture
• Experience in working in accordance to defined SDLCs for waterfall, iterative and agile models of development.
• Experience and a track record of leading software development teams as Solution Architect.
• Experience in contributing to thought leadership in Solution Architecture practices and ability to lead design and development teams in defining, building and delivering industrial-strength software solutions.
• Proven ability to influence the strategic direction of IT solutions across one or more areas.
• Experience within the financial services industry is preferred.

Education:
University Bachelor's Degree



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