Lead Enterprise Solution Architect-Banking

• To be a single point of contact (SPOC) as solution lead in engaging stakeholders (Internal to the bank), understanding their requirements, managing their demand and delivering an economically well assessed solution to the business problem in a timely manner. 
• Contribute in the development of architectural policies, principals, guidelines, strategies and best practices for the solution architecture practice by participating in management meetings along with varied direct contributions. 
• Develop and maintain strong customer (internal) relations ensuring ''Customers for Life'' relationship with “Go Extra Mile” attitude. 
• Work with multiple stakeholders; both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets. The role is to take this knowledge and ensure that the business and IT are in alignment.  
• Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as change requirements in other Enterprise Architecture (EA) viewpoints, to derive the future state for the specified domain area by considering the entire application portfolio covering the domain and defining a roadmap for the optimization. This includes defining the technology domains (covering servers, storage, network, OS, Database, Application Servers, Web Servers, Application Development Environment, Testing, etc.,), standards, principals, guidelines and design patterns & models that guide technology decisions for the given business problems for the enterprise. 
• Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state of business capabilities, technology, application and data across the enterprise, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes to assess viabilities of initiatives. 
• Lead the analysis of the current business capabilities (enabled through applications), technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, lead the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the technology. 
• Provide leadership role and guidance to solution team in assessing various solution options innovatively and facilitate in recommending most economical solution for the given business problem. 
• Provide leadership guidance with designing the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture compliance. 
• Oversee or consult on technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects), particularly for new or shared application/infrastructure solutions. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure and identify when it is necessary to modify the EA to accommodate immediate or future project needs. 
• Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation and selection of business applications, hardware (servers, storage and network) and software technology and product standards (like OS, Database, Application servers, Web servers, etc.), as well as the design of standard configurations. 
• Conduct market research and provide high-level capabilities, solution approach (Build / Buy decision) and costing (mostly through leveraging industry & technology research & RFI/RFP/RFQ process). 
• Conduct various assessment like Solutions options, Normalization of functions & features (Like license, etc., Off-premise vs On-premise, etc.), articulate key functional, technical, IT operational, vendor support, etc., among the solution providers. 
• Deliver solution design and costing for the bank level new initiatives (mostly through RFP process) for an optimal solution to enable stakeholders to prepare a viable business case to seek funding from ITC. 
• Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the EA. 
• Document necessary EA design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection. 
• Define metrics to measure and demonstrate value of solution architect function in specific and EA in general. 
• Understand, advocate and augment the business and IT strategies — and, more specifically, EA development and service delivery. Be prepared to "sell" the EA process (overall, not just for Technology), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure EA & solution architect practice success and use. 
• Conduct technical peer review. 

Primary Work Arrangements 

• This role may lead/influence and manage a team of enterprise solution architecture technical architects (covering Infrastructure, Application and Data), while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any needed technical area. 
• This role will collaborate with business constituents, other EA team members like Business Architect, project teams, infrastructure management team and staff in various IT functional areas (like Infrastructure/Service Management, Application Management, IT Security, etc., ) as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.