Infrastructure Solution Architect

Job Description
An Infrastructure Solution Architect assists the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture to drive, ensure alignment and promote the company's technology strategy and roadmap in partnership with the Enterprise Architects, IT leadership, and the business to enable business strategies to meet the needs of the member base now and well into the future. An Infrastructure Solution Architect is responsible for creating technology solutions in support of the long-term technology strategy of the company and the needs of the business, including solution architecture diagrams, architecture definitions, research notes, reports on industry best practices, and presentations. Provides indirect leadership over solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation. Communicates the architecture to stakeholders. Collaborates and coordinates with existing technical architects in the solution ideation and design phases. Applies IT standards to technology solutions and follows IT processes. Assists in the development of an architecture program including roadmaps for IT systems architecture. Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions to ensure systems are designed to ensure maximum uptime, appropriate monitoring, automated resiliency, appropriate security, and enterprise performance.
Essential Functions
Strategic Direction of IT Solutions and Processes:
Create solution architecture artifacts in alignment with Ent technology roadmap. Ensure architectures are flexible, scalable, and account for directional changes taking place across the enterprise. Review architecture artifacts with business and technology stakeholders to ensure compliance with policies, standards, technology strategy and roadmaps. Advise on tools and technologies that will help better position the company for higher scale, efficiency, and performance. Research industry best-practice, market-leading technologies to advise business partners and to help shape the opinion and direction of the company. Ensure security and operational integrity is sustainable. Leverage best of breed technology design. Follow architectural standards and governance in line with enterprise technology roadmap, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
IT Collaboration:
Create solution architecture artifacts and collaborate to ensure solution alignment with business and technology strategies and roadmaps. Review solution architecture artifacts with Enterprise Architecture, IT and business stakeholders at the Architecture Review Board. Recommend and assist with the build-out of new processes within IT in support of enterprise architecture functions Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to incorporate solution architecture artifacts into modeling software to ensure that an accurate picture of the people, process and technology aspects of solutions are well-documented and usable by enterprise architecture stakeholders.
Business Leadership Collaboration:
Work with line-of-business leaders to understand their technology needs and business strategy.
Cost Analysis / Vendor Management:
Evaluate solutions that will drive down cost of IT. Work with key vendors / partners as needed to meet timelines. Engage vendors for cost saving solutions.
Bank Secrecy Act:
Remains cognizant of and adheres to Ent policies and procedures, and regulations pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act.