AVP III, Solution Architecture

Description

Position Summary

AVP, Solution Architecture is responsible for managing the capabilities and solutions landscape of the organization by creating and maintaining techno-functional solutions compliant with the target state architecture to drive business outcomes. Solutions include systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information) and shared application services.

The AVP, Solution Architecture is expected to build strong relationships in IT, with a focus on collaboration and direct communication. This position will aid the department in meeting the company's strategic goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Design and lead the implementation of solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements, IT supportability, and solution resiliency.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Recommend solutions for improvement.
• Define the future-state solution portfolio leveraging current architecture, business strategy, and new technologies.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyze the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Design governance activities regarding solution architecture to ensure internal and external compliance.
• Collaborate with other compliance and risk teams to ensure solution architecture is designed to meet compliance requirements and to support risk mitigation.
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Keep current with trends and issues in the IT industry, including current technologies and delivery models.
• Actively promotes the mission of the company within the organization.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management and operations.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Understands how to drive and implement strategic technology solutions in support of critical business functions.
• Knowledge of all components of an enterprise technical architecture
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture.
• Organizationally savvy, with a good understanding of the enterprise and how to navigate, influence and persuade.
• Ability to communicate, influence and persuade peers.
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5-8+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Technology architecture and/or Process Engineering
• Experience working with large-scale mission critical systems is preferred.

Credit One Bank, N.A. is a data-driven financial services company based in Las Vegas. Founded in 1984, Credit One Bank offers a spectrum of credit card products for people in all stages of financial life. Credit One Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin. Reasonable accommodations can be made for those who require them, including access to job applications and workplace accommodations. Employment at Credit One Bank is based on mutual consent (also known as at-will). This means that employees and the Bank may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. Please contact the recruiter for this position to learn more. Credit One Bank does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and is not responsible for related fees.