Senior Solutions Architect Full Time

T. Rowe Price’s Global Investment and Client Operations Technology organization provides strategic business capabilities and technology solutions development in support of Global Investment Operations, Global Client Onboarding, and Global Client Administration. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Solutions Architect to join our team in Owings Mills, MD. This position offers a hybrid work model with the option for two days in the office and 3 days remote.

In this dynamic role, you will design and develop IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. You will perform technical planning, architecture development, and modification of specifications as well as develop specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings. This opportunity will also require that you assess the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies. Are you a go-to resource for colleagues with less experience who are also capable of leading projects or work streams? If this describes you, we encourage you to apply!

Role summary and job responsibilities:

• Practicing accountability for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialization

• Understanding and advocating Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles and articulating value proposition of architecture to technology partners

• Managing and continuously improving the design and implementation of architecture processes and artifacts

• Ensuring our firm’s projects engage architecture early and often on architecturally significant projects

• Reviewing key design decisions with departmental architecture review boards

• Ensuring decisions around architecture are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed, and communicated. Raises issues to the Principal Architects and Senior Managers as necessary

• Participating and leading reviews of projects that are in flight. Works closely with technical leads of projects contributing solutions to the project’s most challenging problems and able to be hands on as needed

• Ensuring that all individual solution architecture artifacts and changes are documented as per process standards and stored in T. Rowe Price’s EA Library to facilitate compliance, organization, and access

• Coordinating with other enterprise architects as necessary for solution architecture

• Taking control of complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way.

• Balancing tactical vs. strategic trade-offs when making decisions or proposing solutions

• Flexibility in your thinking; you excel at providing solutions when additional information or ideas are presented.

• Mentoring junior members of the team

• Identifying when junior engineers need help and providing support in a positive way that promotes confidence.

• Dedicated to helping team members/makes suggestions to improve practices

• Leading a small team on a specific project or task

Business knowledge:

• Ability to partner directly with business partners and key stakeholders

• Decisions demonstrate a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility

• Ability to articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions

• Demonstrated experience in identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions and ability to get buy-in

• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of relevant solutions architecture experience

• Act as a single point of contact for architectural support for a Business Unit

• Strong experience in Architecture Strategy and roadmap definition

• Strong experience in Solution architecture definition

• Vendor product evaluations & recommendations

• Understanding of common architecture frameworks and models

• Business and technology stakeholders’ communication & ability to get their buy-in

• Understanding of and experience with application of AWS (new development and migration experience)

• Experience with Java, Python and open source JavaScript frameworks such as NodeJS, Angular, React, etc.