Principal Solutions Architect

Company: SVB Financial Group
Location: Tempe
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

When you work with the world’s most innovative companies, you know you’re making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They’re the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and 30+ years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients’ world-changing ideas to life.

Job Description - Principal Solutions Architect (6130)

Principal Solutions Architect - ( 6130 )

Job Description

Make Next Happen Now. For more than 30 years, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB provides targeted financial services and expertise through its offices in innovation centers across the world. With commercial, international and private banking services, SVB helps address the unique needs of innovators.

Our business is undergoing transformation and shift towards using public cloud and we need experienced architects to help us in moving the monolithic systems to modern cloud-based solutions.

As a  Solutions  Architect, you will be responsible for researching and recommending specific systems, applications, data, or process designs for large or complex cloud infrastructure solutions.

In instances where the solution does not exist, you will be relied upon to invent a unique solution. They design, develop, and analyze overall architecture to determine that hardware, software and data architecture solutions meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security needs.

Be a key contributor  on architectural governance, decisions related to projects, and participate as part of a cross functional architecture decision group both collaboratively within Intel and as an externally regarded leader in the space.

About the role:

Design and development of cloud services consumed across device form factors from IoT to mobile to PCs and web.

Research, design and development of next generation Applications supporting users across security, privacy, identity, transactions and data.

Responsible for driving the complete solution end-to-end, including on public cloud PaaS / Serverless technologies, using required SQL/NoSQL data stores with deep understanding of the technologies, the data model and the access patterns.

Research and identify the right tools and technology stack based on scalability, latency and performance needs.

Assess technical feasibility by building rapid  PoCs , find technological solutions for gaps, and create strategic IP as necessary.

Work closely with User Experience designers and product owners to translate specs into consumer facing functionality

Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams, product managers, designers, user researchers, business unit managers, marketing executives, and customers.

Be well versed in taking teams from legacy to modern architecture  in production

Ability to learn & master new business domain to drive the right design

Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment and achieve results amidst constraints.

About you:

Hands-on experience of full stack development of high performing, scalable cloud applications using various cloud development stacks.

Proven experience  in building solution  using  AWS platform.

Deep skills in REST Services based on Serverless  FaaS  or with C#.NET, Golang, Python

Understanding and experience working with  containerization ( Kubernetes  based )  and  orchestration solutions including  OpenShift,  EKS/ Fargate

Deep understanding of best design and software engineering practices – design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security, privacy, identity protection.

Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Architect and design leading solutions with a strong focus on security, performance and scalability. Hands on experience with TDD is a plus.

Experience with Security, Privacy, Identity  concepts  is a plus.

Experience working  in  FinTechs  & with diff erent banking applications is a strong plus

Extraordinary communication & presentation skills.

Experience working with Data assets such as MDM, EDW and Data Lake  is a plus

Ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms for all levels of organization

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Experience working with a distributed team

Your heart at the right place, good sense of humor, live our values, and ability to form connections with the people you work with

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 10 years of software development, solutions architect, or architect experience

• At least 7 years of experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise systems

• At least 7 years of experience in application architecture, design patterns, and cloud patterns

Qualifications

• Masters Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field

• 7+ years of experience with architectural patterns, building APIs and microservices.

• 7+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems including AWS, GCP or Azure

• 7+ years architecting highly scalable and reliable back-end systems in production

• 2+ years experience leveraging DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar

Primary Location : Tempe

Work Locations : Hayden Ferry Hayden Ferry Lakeside I 80 E Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 600 Tempe 85281

Job Full-time

Job Posting : Apr 29, 2020, 7:01:35 PM

For more than 30 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group serves companies in technology-related, life science and healthcare, venture capital and private equity, and premium wine industries. Along with commercial, investment, international and private banking services provided by Silicon Valley Bank, the company offers funds management, business valuation services, broker-dealer transactions, asset management and private wealth management. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., SVB Financial Group operates in centers of innovation in the U.S. and around the world. Learn more at www.svb.com.

SVB Financial Group is an equal opportunity employer.

Silicon Valley Bank is registered in England and Wales at Alphabeta, 14-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1BR, UK under No. FC029579. Silicon Valley Bank is authorised and regulated by the California Department of Business Oversight and the United States Federal Reserve Bank; authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority with number 577295; and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority. Details about the extent of our regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority are available from us on request.

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