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First Horizon Bank

Solution Architect

First Horizon Bank, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 27601

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Location & Schedule Location:

Raleigh, NC

Weekly Schedule:

Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Job Description The Banking Application Architect delivers as a hands‑on practitioner. You’ll find yourself delivering standards, patterns, and designs to First Horizon’s technology organization, as well as diligent engagement with those teams of developers implementing them! Your scope of influence will include but is not limited to stability, observability, portability, SDLC management, producing technical requirements and solution designs that align to business requirements. You will join the frontline in ensuring we can meet the bank’s business needs while producing a modern, digital stack.

Primary Responsibilities

Manages solution design from conception, through ARB, to delivery

Primarily responsible for producing architecture documentation for digital banking applications as assigned and as projects and programs of work dictate

Maintains First Horizon’s Solution Inventory as a member of the Core Enterprise Architecture Team

Partners with line of business partners, delivery teams, and SMEs to produce and refine product requirements

Designs both the components and interactions of solution architectures that will deliver intended business outcomes

Collaborates with architects in other domains (Data, Security, Infra, Cloud, DevOps) to produce consensus and governance

Leads solution design workshops and emerging technology POC workshops

Validates 3rd Party/Vendor Solutions

Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives

Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows

Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies

Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology

Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions as delivered align with Enterprise Architecture Standards & Patterns

Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap

Provides consultation on complex projects

May lead the work of others and contribute feature work and code reviews as needed

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field

(4+) years of solutions architecture experience

(7+) years of full‑stack mobile and web application development

Experience with n‑tier application architecture and cloud‑native/cloud‑hybrid solution architecture

Experience with technical documentation like interaction diagrams, process diagrams, network topologies and other architectural content

Experience with Agile/SAFe methodologies

Certifications / Licensures

AWS Certified Solution Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Skills And Competencies

Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Stay up-to-date on React Native developments and best practices

Understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise‑wide technical strategies

Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})

Hands‑on‑the‑keyboard depth of knowledge in web/mobile application languages and frameworks (iOS Native, Android Native, ReactJS/React Native preferred)

Hands‑on‑the‑keyboard depth of knowledge in web/mobile CI and CD techniques using modern, shift‑left methodologies

Knowledge of application security design principles and techniques

Understanding of enterprise middleware application languages and frameworks (e.g. .NET, Java, Apigee, IBM ESB, Kafka etc.)

Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)

Understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure) services and platforms like API Gateways, Serverless, Virtual Private Networks, Elastic RDBMS, NoSQL, Key Managers, Load Balancers, Blob Stores, Indexing Services, etc.

Kubernetes & Docker

About Us First Horizon Corporation is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.

Benefit Highlights • Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision

• HSA with company match

• Maternity and parental leave

• Tuition reimbursement

• Mentor program

• 401(k) with 6% match

• More -- FirstHorizon.com/First-Horizon-National-Corporation/Careers/Our-Benefits

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