Title: ATM/Mobile Banking Architect
Type: Contract
Duration: 1 year
Locations: Charlotte, NC - Concord, CA - Jacksonville, FL

Our client, a leading financial institution is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect with Financial Services - ATM & Mobile Banking background.

The job holder leads the overall design and oversees the development of cross-functional, multi-platform applications systems.  He/She develops application architecture and blueprints and defines application components, platforms, interfaces, and development tools.  He/She also provides technical guidance to application development teams, consults on integration and conversion issues and participates in mapping technology-independent applications architecture to the chosen technology platform.  The architect makes high-level design choices and may sometimes dictate technical standards, including coding standards, tools, or platforms, so as to advance business goals rather than to place arbitrary restrictions on the choices of developers.

Specific Job Description/Responsibilities:

Contribute to the development, socialization and delivery of the strategic Self-Service and ATM Architecture for the Consumer and Small Business Bank.  Provide strategic direction and self-service architecture for individual initiatives related to Customer Management and related functions, and channels.  Utilize in-depth knowledge of data, devices, and transaction processing/management capabilities and business system requirements to recommend innovations that enhance and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.

?Provide Self-Service and ATM architecture direction for individual initiatives by working with the TDM to ensure that designs for transaction and payments transactions, and sourcing and information consumption and delivery conform to the strategic Self-Service architecture direction of the department.
?Java or .NET Development experience.
?Implement architecture processes following standards, policies, and guidelines.
?Collaborate with other domain specific (application, integration and infrastructure) Architects, System Design Engineers and technologists to complete architecture deliverables.
?Participate in vendor identification and assessment/research.
?Own the initiative?s data and transaction processing architecture.
?Participate in cost estimation.
?Contribute to Enterprise initiatives addressing data integrity and information alignment, consolidation and integration opportunities.
?Provide leadership in the development of data and information provisioning, application and delivery patterns that incorporate data consistency and quality assurance.
?Contribute to the delivery of processes and capabilities to create and manage an asset inventory of Consumer Banking information and data .
?Maintain architecture traceability throughout the process lifecycle.
?Contribute to architecture process improvement and make recommendations for improvement to the standards.
?Contribute to the documentation and rationalization of existing data and information architectures.

WORK SITE EXPECTATIONS - Must sit in one of the following 3 locations: Concord, CA, Charlotte, NC, or Jacksonville, FL.

*** W2 only; No third party or 1099 candidates ***