Job Description

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team:

We design for private and public cloud to create the optimal solution for our clients and align to the business and infrastructure strategies. We are focused to provide an overall comprehensive solution, not just looking at individual components. We strive to be open, transparent and always looking at ways to improve the way we do things.

What you will be doing:

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.

What you bring:

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

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.

Added bonus if you have:

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

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

What we offer you:

A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!

A competitive salary and benefits

A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology