Architect - Bengaluru, India - Empower

Empower

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Grow your career with a growing organization

Whether they're helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better.

When it comes to job satisfaction, that's hard to beat.

And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you'll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment.

Your future starts now.

An Architect within the technology organization will provide thought leadership and direction in aligning projects and solutions to a technology vision they will help evolve.

This role works closely with business partners and technology leadership in the assessment of business initiatives and their impact on current technology, modernization efforts and change management.

The role will entail developing technology strategies, reference architectures, solutions, best practices and guidance across the entire IT development organization, with particular focus on total cost of ownership, stability, scale and performance.

In this rapid paced environment, the person must possess a "can-do" attitude while demonstrating a strong work ethic. This person should have a strong aptitude to help drive decisions. He or she will be actively involved in influencing the strategic direction of technology at Empower Retirement.

There will be collaboration across teams including IT Infrastructure, PMO office, Business, and third-party integrators in reviewing, evaluating, designing, and implementing solutions.

The Architect must understand the available technology options and educate and influence technology teams to leverage them where appropriate. The Architect will recognize and propose alternatives, make recommendations, and describe any necessary trade-offs. In most cases, the Architect will lead the design and implementation of end-to-end solutions directly with the development teams.

Additional Job Description

What you will do

Help define and execute on the business aligned technical strategy and vision. Develop solutions, document, and provide input into the technology roadmap for Empower Retirement.
Create Reference Architectures that demonstrate an understanding of significant components and the relationships between them.
Provide guidance and direction on the use of technologies such as REACT, Java, Spring boot, Serverless, JavaScript, Typescript and other AWS technology stack. Understand existing legacy stacks and come up with solution design for business requirements as well as identify opportunities to modernize the legacy stacks.
Participate in the evaluation of new technologies, integration options, challenge the status quo, create solid business cases, and influence direction while establishing partnerships with key constituencies.
Implement best practices, standards & guidance, then subsequently provide coaching of technology to team members.
Provide strong leadership and direction in development/engineering practices.
Collaborate with other business and technology teams on architecture and design issues. Respond to evolving and changing security conditions. Implement and recommend security guidelines.
Provide thoughtleadership, advocacy, articulation, assurance, and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture discipline.

What you will bring

Technical bachelor's degree (e.g. computer science, IS, engineering, math, etc.)

What will set you apart

Solid handson experience with three or more of the following technology disciplines:

SOA & Microservices design, AWS Solution Architecture, Cloud Architectures, Advanced Programming, Modern Integration Methods (API Gateway/Web Services, Messaging & RESTful architectures), NoSQL, Client-side Development using Web technologies such as React, Java, Spring boot, JavaScript, Typescript.

Expertise in addressing architectural cross cutting concerns and their tradeoffs, including topics such as caching, monitoring, operational surround, high availability, security, etc.
Strong knowledge of data modeling, security patterns and integration methods.
Experience with DevOps processes and tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrates continuous learning of new technologies.
Selfmotivated individual that thrives in a team environment.
Financial industry expertise preferred (Retirement, Investments, Asset Management etc.)

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