Lead Solutions Architect
Detroit, Mi, Us
Lead Solutions Architect’s (SA) responsible for planning, coordinating, architecting, and supervising activities related to the development of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions as required to meet the business requirements within the organization. Responsible for helping to define the application architecture for Ally’s leading auto business focusing on the mapping of IT capabilities to business needs. Focused on helping to define the relationships, flows and implementation of business processes/activities/functions/information, applications, data and technology within the organization as well as the transitional process necessary for implementing technology in response to changing business needs. Responsible for creating and maintaining architectural best practices as well as addressing new application/data/technology enhancements in the context of business processes across the division. Responsible for providing leadership direction and accountability for strategic application architecture plans, system design, and implementation. Collaborated with other architects, technology delivery teams and the technology infrastructure teams to define architectural approaches and solutions, conducted business reviews, documented current systems in the portfolio, and recommended how to proceed with specific applications (replace, retire, maintain, etc.). Responsibilities also included developing and maintaining application design patterns, overseeing the development of application components, overseeing performance and security testing of application modules/interfaces as well as helping to identify emerging trends/thought leadership in software development to introduce to the enterprise.