job summary: WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY? Senior Solution Architect is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining on-premises and cloud native applications. Participates in improving our SDLC, Engineering, and DevOps practices. Develops both front-end and back-end solutions. Designs, develops and maintains solutions, and provides technical guidance to other Team Members. Participates in creating SDLC, Architecture, Design and Coding standards. Identifies complex business problems and participates in generating solutions. Identifies performance issues, analyzes root causes and participates in performance improvement activities. Participates in remedying compliance issues. Documents and communicates problems, designs and solutions. Technology and Innovation Division As a member of the Technology & Innovation group, you will drive, develop, and maintain solutions for clients and colleagues. This is an exciting time of technology advancement and innovation across the bank, particularly within our technology teams. location: LOS ANGELES, California job type: Permanent salary: $170,000 - 180,000 per year work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors responsibilities: WHAT WILL YOU DO? Lead the solution architecture of cross-functional, multi-platform application systemsWriting great quality code driving towards automated testing and validationsPerform analysis of performance; plan and execute activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production supportCollaborate with business partners, architects and other groups to identify complex technical and functional needs of systemsCollaborate with multiple, enterprise-wide distributed performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applicationsDesign and develop API's for client and colleague facing applicationsLook for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependenciesRecommend rationalization opportunities throughout the portfolio of applications and systemsProvide technical guidance to team members and solution architectsProvide programming expertise and business analysis skills within broad business areas; as a senior member of a project team participate in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applicationsParticipate in solution designs to meet technical specifications - guide team members and solution architectsAnalyze and develop data models, logical database designs and data definitions across multiple computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server, etc.)Comply with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED Must-Have* Bachelor's Degree or equivalentMinimum of 10+ years of software development experience including UI as well as middle tier and backendMinimum of 6+ years of solution architecture Skills and Knowledge Must have Solution Architecture experience leveraging Microsoft Technologies including Windows OS, IIS Web Server, SQL Server Database.Must have experience architecting solutions in a financial services environment. Strongly preferred in banking vertical.Must have 6+ years of experience Cloud Solution Architecture Experience (Azure a plus6+ years of experience designing REST APIs6+ years of experience with databases and data modeling / design (SQL and NoSQL plus4+ years of experience designing in the context of workflows and rules4+ years of experience incorporating security into the application architectureExperience with developing architecture, coding standards and patternsLarge application design and implementation experience including architecture and design of modern web, mobile, and integration (cloud/on-premises) platformsSignificant experience documenting solution designs using a variety of approaches (e.g. using Bizzdesign)Must have experience with Agile development methodology including Scrum, XP, FDD, TDD, and SAFe.Experience integrating systems and applications with CRM systems like SalesforceExperience with following technologies: C#/.Net, Java, Python, JavaScript, CSS, HTML SQL, Azure DevOps, Azure, AWS, Serverless OAuth, SAML.Excellent verbal and written communications, interpersonal, and analytical skills is required.Nice to have 6+ years of experience Microservices ArchitectureNice to have 6+Experience working in fully DevOps enabled environmentNice to have experience designing using containers and container orchestration platform (AKS) plusNice to have 4+year of experience designing asynchronous/ event driven as well as synchronous systemsNice to have proven track record of optimizing the development activities with a strong focus on DevOps and automationNice to have proven track record in generating alternative solution approaches and driving a pragmatic trade-off solutionNice to have proven ability to learn new technologies and evaluate for fitness into a specific business context through POCs and other evaluations qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 10 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors skills: Windows (5 years of experience is required) Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. 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