Executive Job Description | Financial Services IT Architect
Leading Global Management Consulting Firm
Position Description
Client Overview
Our client is one of the top 4 global management consulting firms with a prestigious market and top quality employment reputation. They serve leading firms with integrated business, operations, and information technology strategy consulting services. They seek to help clients solve their toughest problems working on a collaborative basis to help them achieve their objectives and deliver results that endure.
They are rapidly growing their Financial Services Practice and are seeking proven financial services information technology architects with top tier or boutique strategy consulting as well as leading business process reengineering or Big 4 consulting organizations to join their team. We are seeking financial service architects at a number of levels that wish to further enhance their consulting careers working on critical and high impact assignments with major financial service organizations and have the full support of a top quality consulting organization. These positions will be based in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, or San Francisco.
Role Description
A Financial Services IT Architect at the Senior Associate level serves as a comprehensive Project Manager including Planning, organizing, and driving project execution along with guiding and directing junior team members. They provide thought leadership and creative insights to help identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to clients strategic success. In addition, they serve as the functional IT expert on strategic transformation assignments developing integration strategies and plans for enterprise IT applications, developing key hypotheses and insights; defining and managing all data collection initiatives, structuring sophisticated analyses and managing daily interaction with clients to establish requirements and to ensure assignment progress. They are responsible for interpreting results from multiple project components and translating these findings into clear and compelling recommendations and solutions; ensuring integration of multiple pieces against project goals. A Senior Associate works closely with client team members to generate practical solutions and ensuring clients assume the ownership required for successful implementation as well as developing long-term relationships with existing clients at a senior level; participating in client presentations and proposal writing
Position Qualifications
A Senior Associate needs to have the following qualifications:
Over 5 years of relevant functional experience in post-graduate work in a consulting environment including a major strategy firm or boutique, business process reengineering or Big 4 consulting firm, or in an internal consulting capacity showing progressive advancement and a record of achievement
Deep industry or consulting domain knowledge of financial services, including banking, capital markets, and/or payment products
Experience in enterprise level process analysis and design, large program management experience, multi project/program Business Case Development in Architecture programs, metrics and performance management (business and technology KPIs, SLAs, operationalization of metrics etc), and roadmap design
Experience with managing various teams at all project phases as well as in sales support
Bachelors degree is required with an advanced degree (MBA, MS) from a leading institution being a plus
In addition, the following technology qualifications would be valuable for this role:
Significant experience in designing and architecting solutions across a wide range of target platforms, M/F, Open Systems, Microsoft using modern architecture principles
Conversant with current enterprise architecture paradigms TOGAF, Zachman, etc.
Development languages experience (i.e. C++ , Java )
Development Methodologies: such as Waterfall Model, RUP, and Agile Methodologies such as Extreme Programming & Scrum.
Extensive SOA and Web Services experience on different technology stacks.(Java, Web services, SOAP and Ajax; J2EE Platforms, JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic, AquaLogic and WebSphere)
Extensive database design and architecture experience across multiple database management systems
Large scale database expertise, RAC, partitioning, replication, etc.
Large scale systems expertise i.e. MPP, Clustering, Load Balancing, etc.
Cloud & SaaS Platforms: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Force.com, Workday, Concur, ServiceNow etc.
Open Source and Collaboration Platforms such as LAMP.
Performance engineering skills
Capacity planning and performance monitoring
Data center and network architecture skills
Server Class OS and Web Hosting
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