Roles and Responsibilities:
" Solution, design and review specific to software development
" Up Front analysis design oriented activates
" Disseminating architecture into low level designs inside the delivery cruise.
Must Have Technical Skills: 3-5 yrs experience
" Requirements analysis & solution scoping (translate business goals into clear functional + non-functional requirements; define scope boundaries and assumptions)
" Solution design using standards & governance (produce designs that align to architecture vision/principles/standards; prepare for architecture council review and compliance).
" Architecture documentation & artifacts (create/maintain architecture deliverables using required templates/boilerplate; ensure completeness before review)
" Process & workflow modeling (model business and system workflows; identify handoffs, failure points, and optimization opportunities)
" System interaction + integration design (conceptual) (understand system interactions and data flows; design integrations across apps and services)
" API / event / file integration literacy (ability to reason about integration options such as APIs, file sharing, and streaming/eventing; capture interface requirements and constraints)
" Omni-channel experience awareness (customer + employee) (design with both customer-facing and employee-facing channel needs in mind; consider branch/care center and digital channels)
" Tool proficiency for architecture intake & governance workflow Jira (Kanban intake, tracking review status, action items) Confluence (boilerplate pages, documentation, job aids) Diagramming (e.g., Gliffy or equivalent for solution models).
Flex Skills/Nice to Have:
" Basic cloud and migration awareness (familiarity with modernizing architectures and cloud preference/migration concepts)
" Familiarity with modern architecture patterns (microservices, containers, streaming platforms) at a conceptual level enough to document impacts and integration needs
" Data flow & master data concepts (comfortable discussing customer/master data impacts and how distributed apps integrate with shared data services/APIs and batch patterns)
" Vendor/third-party assessment support (help evaluate vendor fit, integration approach, and constraints during selection / RFP phases.
Soft Skills:
" Clear written communication (produce concise, complete architecture docs and decision records; write for both technical and non-technical audiences)
" Stakeholder collaboration & cross-team coordination (partner with product, engineering, security, and architecture peers; work through dependencies)
" Facilitation & meeting readiness (support/participate in peer reviews, prep sessions, and council reviews; capture action items and drive closure)
" Analytical thinking & structured problem solving (break down ambiguous problems into requirements, options, risks, and recommendations)
" Organization & follow-through (track intake tickets, statuses, and action items to completion)
" Comfort with feedback & iterative refinement (incorporate review comments and re-submit artifacts; operate in a facilitated consensus environment)
Education/Certifications: Minimum bachelor's degree