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Blankfactor lists this AWS Devops Engineer opportunity in bismarck, North Dakota. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Solutions Architect – Wire Payments Modernization
About Blankfactor – What We Do
At Blankfactor, we specialize in delivering high-impact technology solutions for global enterprises in highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services. Our teams partner with leading financial institutions to design, build, and modernize mission-critical platforms using cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices.
We combine deep domain expertise with strong engineering culture to solve complex technology challenges and support large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead governance-aligned architecture for a Finacle-based wire transfers modernization program within a highly regulated banking environment .
This role is responsible for defining and operationalizing hybrid cloud solution architecture spanning AWS and on-premises Red Hat OpenShift , ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and internal risk frameworks .
The architect will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams (Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering), infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure architecture artifacts are audit-ready and aligned with the Permit to Operate lifecycle .
This position requires a balance of deep technical expertise, architecture leadership, and regulatory awareness to support mission-critical, high-volume wire transfer platforms .
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture Leadership
Own end-to-end solution architecture across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security layers.
Lead the modernization and re-architecture strategy for Finacle-integrated wire platforms, including legacy decomposition, API enablement, and hybrid cloud adoption .
Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures aligned with enterprise resiliency standards, including clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives .
Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Lead architecture design across Amazon EKS and on-premises Red Hat OpenShift , ensuring secure connectivity and workload portability.
Define secure hybrid networking, DNS resolution, and cross-environment routing strategies aligned with enterprise governance.
Establish secure service-to-service communication patterns , including mTLS and service mesh strategies where appropriate.
Security, Compliance & Governance
Ensure architecture supports regulatory reporting, transaction monitoring, AML, and sanctions integration requirements .
Produce and guide architecture artifacts through Architecture Review Board, Risk, Security, and Control governance forums .
Develop and maintain regulatory traceability matrices mapping business requirements, control objectives, regulatory obligations, and technical implementations.
Support regulatory exams, audits, and remediation programs when required.
Platform Reliability & DevSecOps
Provide architectural oversight of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps controls .
Ensure transaction integrity and data consistency in distributed environments using idempotent processing, resilient workflow orchestration, and failure recovery patterns .
Oversee documentation of end-to-end wire transaction flows, data lineage, integration points, and operational readiness artifacts .
Stakeholder Leadership
Act as a senior technical advisor , translating complex architectural and regulatory requirements into clear technical strategies.
Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Required Experience
10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture or Enterprise Architecture within regulated financial environments.
Proven experience leading modernization initiatives for wire payments or mission-critical financial platforms .
Strong expertise in AWS cloud services , including EKS, encryption, key management, and secure hybrid integration patterns .
Hands-on architectural experience with Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments.
Experience designing hybrid cloud architectures balancing security, compliance, performance, and resiliency .
Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures with clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives .
Familiarity with wire payment ecosystems such as Fedwire, SWIFT, and CHIPS .
Strong experience in architecture governance, regulatory control mapping, risk integration, and audit support .
Experience guiding architecture through structured stage-gate governance and Permit to Operate processes .
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as OCC , Federal Reserve , and Sarbanes-Oxley Act .
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Finacle 11.x or similar core banking platforms supporting wire payments.
Experience supporting **ISO 20022 transformation initiatives.
Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency financial transaction platforms .
TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
Who can apply
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