DescriptionLocation: On site at Memphis, TN. Maryville, TN. Birmingham, AL, Lafayette, LA. New Orleans, LA. Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC.Job Summary:The Enterprise Architect delivers as a thought leader and visionary. You’ll find yourself delivering standards, patterns, and designs to First Horizon’s technology organization, as well as diligent engagement with stakeholders and business leaders! Your scope of influence will include but is not limited to stability, observability, portability, SDLC management, producing strategic roadmaps and solution designs that align to business strategies. You will join the frontline in ensuring we can meet the bank’s business needs while producing a modern, digital stack.Primary Responsibilities
Manage solution design from conception to delivery
Collaboratively manage a playbook of patterns, standards, and principles that guide the Architecture COP (Center of Practice) and its operations
Collaboratively manage a catalog of business applications, capabilities, and other attributes and designations as benefit a holistic, enriched purview of the Enterprise’s technology landscape for executive leadership
Guide and mentor other architects
Primarily responsible for producing architecture documentation for business applications as assigned and as projects and programs of work dictate
Partners with line of business, delivery teams, Solution Architects and SMEs to produce and refine technical requirements
Designs both the components and interactions of solution architectures that will deliver intended business outcomes
Collaborates with architects in other domains (Data, Security, Infra, Cloud, DevOps) to produce consensus and governance
Leads solution design workshops and emerging technology POC workshops
Validates 3rd Party/Vendor Solutions and help author RFx content
Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines
Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap
Provides consultation on complex projects
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field
(Preferred) Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field
(5+) years of solutions architecture experience
(10+) years of application development or software engineering experience
Experience with n-tier application architecture and cloud native solution architecture
Experience with technical documentation like interaction diagrams, process diagrams, network topologies and other architectural content
Experience with Agile and Waterfall methods
Experience with TOGAF or BIAN Frameworks
Certifications/Licensures
AWS Certified Solution Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Skills And Competencies
Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
Hands-on-the-keyboard depth of knowledge in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Python, Typescript, etc.
Knowledge of application security design principles and techniques
Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
Understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure) services and platforms like API Gateways, Serverless, Virtual Private Networks, Elastic RDBMS, NoSQL, Key Managers, Load Balancers, Blob Stores, Indexing Services, etc.
Kubernetes & Docker
Experience with Queueing/Streaming platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
