Solution Architect

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

We are seeking a solution architect for our Public Affairs and Local Solutions Delivery teams to set vision, strategy, design, values, and priorities that enable us to achieve our mission.

Our architects play a crucial leadership role and must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, security, collaboration, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.

They also serve as a mentor to our engineers providing guidance through new and complex experiences in a collaborative environment.

Public Affairs focuses on sharing the Bank's mission with the public and engaging with employees.

The Public Affairs portfolio supports the Bank's efforts to share information with the public on its external website as well as the Bank's intranet, along with custom and SaaS products for high-level external engagement.

The development team supporting them works in a fast paced, agile environment with exciting opportunities to innovate and drive high priority delivery initiatives through to completion.

As a solution architect, you will have accountability for technology choices, security and design solutions across the portfolio.

You will be a technical leader responsible for researching, analyzing, proposing, and architecting requirements-based products and solutions that align with the business and technology needs by acting as a trusted partner to the business.

You will collaborate with partners, technology providers, security, and other architects to develop technology and information architectures, solution designs, strategies, and roadmaps.

Key Activities


* Partner with senior leadership, Public Affairs, infrastructure providers and peers to help identify business needs and shape IT vision by offering appropriate strategic and tactical technical solutions to the business along with a transition roadmap & plan for realizing it.


* Define strategic direction in terms of the technologies, standards, processes, and current/target state architectures.


* Ensure product level solutions adhere to strategic direction in terms of the technologies, standards, processes, and current/target state architectures across the enterprise.


* Work across technology, organization, and business to outline large transformation programs and work with program leads and business lines to deliver on them.


* Partner with other Enterprise, Platform, Security, Data, and Infrastructure Architects to deliver best in class solutions.


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