System Architect

Company: FIS
Location: Austin
Posted on: October 16, 2020

Job Description:

Position Type :

Full time Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Education Desired :

Bachelor of Computer Science Travel Percentage :

25% Job Description

GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Documents and publishes appropriate architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns and frameworks.

• Defines, constructs, supports and provides training for enterprise frameworks.

• Defines and maintains a library of functional component models within and across FIS product lines.

• Documents functional product solutions for key FIS product strategy and product management initiatives leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.

• Documents functional product solutions for key FIS financial services sales opportunities leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.

• Maintains a catalogue of reusable functional application components consumable across applications and product lines.

• Reviews functional and technical designs to identify areas of risk and/or missing requirements.

• Acts as tie breaker on design decisions.

• Documents and communicates opportunities to leverage inter-project synergies, application and enterprise software or infrastructure asset re-use and opportunities to expose application assets for enterprise consumption.

• Communicates system architecture to technical and business audiences.

• Other related duties assigned as needed.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. Post-graduate education desired.

Requires the following experience or equivalent combination of education and experience as a minimum to enter any level of IT Architect job:

• Must have led technology direction for multiple projects and led or presented architecture concepts outside realm of immediate workgroup

• Demonstrated experience as application development system designer or technical lead on many “very large”, i.e., 10,000 hours or more spanning more than 6 months projects

• May also require one or more of the following experience requirements:

• Five or more years working in a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment (ZOS, UNIX, Windows)

• Five or more years demonstrated experience in working with relational (and/or hierarchical) databases

• Five or more years demonstrated experience in modern software application technologies

• Successful design and implementation of applications in a shared service bureau environment

• Experience in building On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), batch and reporting systems

• Experience in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) for Object Modeling

• Experience in building robust and scalable infrastructure architectures (telephony systems, network services, web farms, multiple-node systems, etc.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Knowledge of FIS products and services

• Knowledge of financial services industry

• In-depth knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles including waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development

• Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process models, use cases, etc.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors

• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team and time management skills

• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

• Ability to estimate work effort for project sub-plans or small projects and ensure the project is successfully completed

• Positive outlook, strong work ethic and responsive to internal and external customers and contacts

• Willingly and successfully fulfills the role of teacher, mentor and coach

• May require a thorough understanding of design patterns and their application

• May require a thorough understanding of Model-View-Controller design patterns for web applications

• May require a fluency in developing and understanding sequence diagrams, class models, etc.

• May require in-depth knowledge of networking, computing platform, storage, database, security, middleware, network and systems management, and related infrastructure technologies and practices

FIS JOB LEVEL DESCRIPTION

Advanced professional role. Highly skilled with extensive proficiency. Focuses primarily on one of the four architecture disciplines typically within a single business group. Uses best practices and knowledge of technologies and processes that are appropriate for the architecture discipline the incumbent is assigned to improve FIS products and/or services. Works independently and receives minimal guidance. Serves as a resource for less experienced peers. Wide latitude for independent judgment. Represents a job level at which career may stabilize for many years or potentially until retirement. Typically requires twelve or more years of systems development experience with five or more years as an engineer or systems specialist.

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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