Enterprise Architect II (Remote)
Join the People Helping PeopleVelera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.The Opportunity:As an Enterprise Architect II, you will take a more advanced role in shaping and evolving our enterprise architecture. You will lead efforts to design and implement comprehensive architecture strategies that align with our business goals and support our complex finance and payments systems. This position requires someone who is skilled in managing multiple priorities, possesses strong analytical problem-solving skills, and hands-on experience with ArchiMate relationships and dependencies around business, application, and technology architectures and artifacts within the context of TOGAF.Day in the Life:Architecture Strategy: Develop and refine enterprise architecture framework for Velera Systems, around business, application, and technology architectures. Able to create TOGAF Artifacts: Matrixes, Diagrams, Building Blocks, and Principles w/ ArchiMate. Willingness to learn and create business architecture: business capability models, gap analysis’s, risk impact assessments, value stream maps, heat maps, and decision matrixes. Business capability score metrics, total cost of ownership metric, and return on investment metric formula understanding is needed, along with roadmap and business case creation. Leadership: Mentor and guide junior architects and technical teams, fostering collaboration and best practices in architecture design and implementation. Providing oversight, consulting, and mentoring on architecture, design, and integration of software across complex system integration with data, security, performance, and scalability in mind is required.Project Oversight: Oversee major architectural projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery of solutions. Reviewing and creating solutions using Architecture Review Board (ARB), Permit to Build (PTB), and Permit to Operation (PTO) artifacts, along with capacity forecasting planning and overseeing /own a technology-based end of support and rationalization program is required.Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with senior stakeholders and business leaders to understand their needs and ensure that architecture solutions effectively address business challenges. Working with Velera’s Business Liaison team to establish leadership roadmaps and business cases is required.Innovation: Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovative solutions to enhance system performance and competitive advantage. Creating solutions and hand...