Architect - Architecture and Design Engineering

Company: Federal Reserve Bank
Location: Satsuma
Posted on: January 24, 2023

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve-the nation's central bank-you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth-along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The National IT Architecture and Design Engineering team has an immediate opening for two Architects to provide support for architecture and design activities across the Federal Reserve System. In this role, you will work with business areas to develop solution and target architectures; provide guidance on cloud migrations; and provide architecture leadership for solution development.

What You Will Do:

* Document current and future-state Business Line needs, and translate them into underlying IT Capabilities
* Designs varying levels of complex frameworks to support system-wide technical and business architecture requirements.
* Identify cross-business and enterprise-wide opportunities for common technology solutions.
* Develop solution architecture blueprints and engineering designs for large projects or programs
* Develop frameworks, patterns and processes to facilitate the migration of applications and data environments to cloud environments
* Serve as a hands-on lead or technical expert to project teams.
* Provide strategic foresight and long-term development planning for future technology adoption

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or software engineering
* 3-5 years of software development experience
* 1 or more years of experience performing in an architecture role
* One of more cloud certifications from AWS, Azure or Google
* Demonstrated expertise with IT solution delivery in the cloud, including serving as an architect, engineer or technical lead working on design, implementation, and operations for distributed applications.
* Experience with Agile Development and Practices
* Understanding of API, SOA, or microservice concepts, design patterns and best practices
* Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to drive issue resolution
* Strong influence and negotiation skills; ability to facilitate discussions around complex issues and bring them to resolution
* Excellent leadership skills and abilities
* Strong oral and written communications skills and attention to detail.
* Ability to work effectively in a large, geographically distributed work environment.
* Ability to work independently in an environment with some ambiguity.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you'll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

* Great medical benefits
* Pension and 401(k) with employer match
* Paid time off
* Tuition reimbursement
* Employee resource networks
* Paid volunteer leave
* Flexible work options
* Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

* A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
* Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
* Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident Status (Green Card).
* Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.

The hiring range for these positions is:

* Experienced: 94,600 - 130,130
* Senior: 110,300 - 151,690
* This is a National range; certain locations/states ranges may vary.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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