Trust Solution Architect

Comerica is excited to be enhancing our architecture team and is looking for a qualified Solution Architect that will focus on developing solutions within our Trust business leveraging inhouse developed solutions, AWS Cloud Native services, and other vendor solutions.
Solution architects will need to provide deep expertise of the overall systems architecture across all layers including web, application, database, operating system, network, and security. Thorough understanding of the business and application inter-dependencies across the business domains will be key to long term success in the role. The ideal candidate will have experience in Trust and Wealth business which is highly preferred.

Daily activities you can expect to complete:

• Coordinating project technical activities
• Translate the technical architecture design into functional deliverables
• Oversee and mentor project engineers
• Ensure technological risks are accounted for and solutions meet requirements
• Code and develop application software to be effectively designed, built, and tested to design specifications
• Assisting with the evaluation and recommendation of relevant technology, tools and practices aligned with the business strategy and priorities

Deliverables you will be accountable for include:

• Owning the low-level technical design document
• Owning the system integration design
• Assigning team code development tasks
• Code reviews for development team
• Functional proof of concepts to validate solution as appropriate
• Creating reusable patterns from projects for enterprise reuse

Position Responsibilities:
Innovation

• Perform research activities to identify emerging technologies and trends that may affect the enterprise.
• Maintain awareness of vendor/product industry developments, regulations and trends and identify potential impacts to the enterprise.
• Assist in vendor/product selection activities including the development of vendor/product evaluation models used in Requests for Proposal (RFP's).
• Design and oversee efforts in building effective bank specific Proof of Concept demonstrations and socialize the results throughout the enterprise and all levels of management.

Strategy

• Lead or support enterprise capability definition aligned with business strategy.
• Provide technical/business consulting to internal IS organizations and client-sponsored activities outside of IS.
• Acquire and maintain deep understanding of Comerica's business domain specific business processes, supporting applications, integrations & dependencies, security model, technology constraints & limitations.
• Analyze the business drivers that determine key architecture requirements.
• Highly engaged and drive strategic domain specific initiatives and programs from a technology perspective.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with business domain leadership to keep track of changing business needs and priorities.

Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Perform technical architecture planning activities.
• Facilitate and develop architectural standards for key technologies.
• Mentor Agile/DevOps practices and procedures among domain teams.
• Facilitate the development and evolution of the architecture and global governance processes.
• Define and facilitate the process for approving architecture principles and standards.
• Develop, collect and analyze Enterprise Architecture metrics to identify continual improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or in a technology related field, OR equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience, OR 12 years of technology experience
• 7 years of experience identifying technical solutions for complex business problems
• 6 years of Architect experience
• 6 years of experience leading large complex technology projects
• 5 years of experience mentoring other technologists
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.