About TSR:

TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.

For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.

Mission & Vision

We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;

Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.

We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.

Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.

Solutions Architect

Job Description

• Location: Irving, Texas
• Type: Contract
• Job #79602

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Solutions Architect on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 79602

Work Location:
Irving, TX
Summary:
The Senior Solutions Architect candidate requires a strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems. The role will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders such as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM), Retail Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Internal Audit, O&T Business Risk Control and Chief Administrative Office. The candidate is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate.
Responsibilities:

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape
• Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on requirements.
• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions.
• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state.
• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market.
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis.
• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams.
• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.
• This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of overall relevant banking, financial services experience.
• At least 10 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Banking/Financial/Payment experience is a plus.
• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions.
• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures.
• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles.
• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools.
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate.
• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Passion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve products.
• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits.
• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
• Consistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communication.
• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plus.
• Demonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teams.
• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations.
• Ability to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetings.

Education:

• Bachelors/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Potentially Master's degree/MBA.