Staff Solutions Architect

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Candescent

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2024

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Marketing • Fintech

Candescent is a digital-first, intelligence-driven banking platform that helps banks and credit unions modernize account opening, digital banking, branch interactions and operations. It provides cloud-native onboarding and sales tools, fraud and security management, unified data and analytics, marketing/communications, card and money management, developer tools, and a curated marketplace of partner solutions to improve engagement, compliance, and financial wellness for consumer and business customers.

📋 Description

• Define and govern Client Operations architecture principles, technical standards, implementation patterns, and support models across Candescent platform services • Establish technical frameworks and decision criteria for complex implementation, integration, migration, and support approaches • Represent Client Operations in enterprise architecture and platform decisions affecting scalability, serviceability, upgradeability, resiliency, and operating cost • Identify systemic technical risks and capability gaps, recommend enterprise-level solutions, and drive cross-functional resolution • Serve as senior Client Operations technical authority and DI platform subject matter expert • Lead technical strategy for high-risk or high-value client situations spanning architecture, product, engineering, implementation, and support • Partner with Client Engagement, Professional Services, Development Services, Product, and Engineering on scalable platform and service approaches • Define architecture and operating-model strategy for migrating clients from DI to Votiv at scale • Develop repeatable upgrade paths, migration patterns, readiness criteria, implementation architectures, and post-migration support structures • Convert migration lessons into reusable standards, playbooks, automation opportunities, and platform recommendations • Drive architectural simplification and standardization to reduce migration complexity and support burden • Lead technical strategy, architecture, scope, delivery model, assumptions, dependencies, and risk for strategic Candescent Advantage pursuits • Advise the COO and executive leadership on platform architecture, technology risk, implementation strategy, Votiv readiness, and services opportunities • Influence senior Product and Engineering leaders on platform priorities and design decisions • Lead cross-functional technical decision-making across Client Operations, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Development Services, and Client Engagement • Raise technical capability through architecture guidance, mentoring, reusable standards, and coaching • Communicate architecture, technology, risk, and business tradeoffs with executive clarity

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline; equivalent senior-level technical experience may be considered • 15+ years of progressive experience spanning software engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, technical consulting, platform implementation, and/or development leadership • Demonstrated career progression from hands-on engineering or development into architecture and senior technical leadership roles • Deep expertise in digital banking, fintech, or enterprise SaaS architectures, including APIs, integrations, distributed systems, platform services, and complex enterprise implementations • Proven experience setting technical direction and architecture standards across multiple teams, products, client environments, or enterprise initiatives • Demonstrated success leading highly complex technical decisions and client situations with material business, operational, or commercial impact • Strong executive presence and ability to advise C-suite leaders, client executives, architects, engineering leaders, and delivery teams with credibility • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority • Experience translating technical strategy into scalable implementation, migration, support, and commercial service models • Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Full-time employment