FIS

IT Architect Specialist

Posted on: 28 Feb 2021

Jacksonville, FL

Job Description

Who Are We:

FIS connects consumers to their money through leading-edge payments solutions. Weu2019re the development engine of FIS: the largest,u00A0Fortune 500, Fintech company in the world. Our solution is branded by our customersu00A0u2014 banks and retailersu00A0u2014 so you might not have heard of us. But, if youu2019ve used a mobile banking app, interacted with an ATM, or used a debit card to complete a financial transaction, youu2019re most likely using FIS software. Our product is one that touches the average consumer on a regular basis, and makes the financial world go u2018round.

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries, and our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company, ranked 392 on the Fortune 500 list and is a member of Standard & Pooru2019s 500u00AE Index.u00A0 Named a 2016 u201CWorldu2019s Most Admired Companyu201D by Fortune Magazine.

Job Description:

Business/Solution Architect u2013 define, maintain and extend functional product architecture for FISu2019 suite of Financial Services Applications. Application Architect u2013 guide application development team through development process. Ensure development is done right the first time and has an understanding of how products relate with other products and ensures interdependencies are in focus. Software Technology Architect u2013 define and maintain architecture principles and standards for FIS application development based on FIS business requirements. Infrastructure Technology Architect u2013 focus is primarily on disciplines of selection, operation and administration of u201Ccommercial-off-the-shelfu201D (COTS) systems and system software that make up underlying operating environment in support of business processes.

u2022 Focused on Voice and Video platforms. (Video Conferencing, On-Prem phone systems, 8x8 and NiCe SAS/Cloud offerings)u2022 Documents and publishes appropriate architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns and frameworks.
u2022 Defines, constructs, supports and provides training for enterprise frameworks.
u2022 Defines and maintains a library of functional component models within and across FIS product lines.
u2022 Documents functional product solutions for key FIS product strategy and product management initiatives leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.
u2022 Documents functional product solutions for key FIS financial services sales opportunities leveraging defined functional component model libraries and the defined product line architecture roadmap.
u2022 Maintains a catalogue of reusable functional application components consumable across applications and product lines.
u2022 Reviews functional and technical designs to identify areas of risk and/or missing requirements.
u2022 Acts as tie breaker on design decisions.
u2022 Documents and communicates opportunities to leverage inter-project synergies, application and enterprise software or infrastructure asset re-use and opportunities to expose application assets for enterprise consumption.
u2022 Communicates system architecture to technical and business audiences.
u2022 Other related duties assigned as needed.

Education Requirements:

Bacheloru2019s degree in computer science or engineering or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. Post-graduate education desired.

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

u00A0u2022 Must have led technology direction for multiple projects and led or presented architecture concepts outside realm of immediate workgroup
u2022 Demonstrated experience as application development system designer or technical lead on many u201Cvery largeu201D, i.e., 10,000 hours or more spanning more than 6 months projects
u2022 May also require one or more of the following experience requirements:
u2022 Five or more years working in a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment (ZOS, UNIX, Windows)
u2022 Five or more years demonstrated experience in working with relational (and/or hierarchical) databases
u2022 Five or more years demonstrated experience in modern software application technologies
u2022 Successful design and implementation of applications in a shared service bureau environment
u2022 Experience in building On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), batch and reporting systems
u2022 Experience in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) for Object Modeling
u2022 Experience in building robust and scalable infrastructure architectures (telephony systems, network services, web farms, multiple-node systems, etc.

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FIS

Jacksonville, FL

FIS is a leader in technology and services that helps businesses and communities thrive by advancing commerce and the financial world.

For over 50 years, FIS has continued to drive growth for clients around the world by creating tomorrow’s technology, solutions and services to modernize today’s businesses and customer experiences. By connecting merchants, banks and capital markets, we use our scale, apply our deep expertise and data-driven insights, innovate with purpose to solve for our clients’ future, and deliver experiences that are more simple, seamless and secure to advance the way the world pays, banks and invests.

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS employs more than 55,000 people across 50+ countries, dedicated to helping our clients be ahead of what’s next. FIS offers more than 450 solutions and processes over $75b of transactions around the planet. FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.

For a better understanding of how FIS evolved into a world-renowned financial services technology leader, one needs to look back at the company's history.

The company was founded in 1968 as Systematics™, which was later acquired by ALLTEL Information Services, and then bought by title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial® in 2003, who renamed it Fidelity Information Services (FIS). Over the course of the next few years, FIS acquired several other financial technology firms, including Certegy® in 2006, eFunds® in 2007 and Metavante® in 2009.

These acquisitions broadened its reach across the globe, earned FIS a place on the Fortune 500 listing, and positioned the company as the largest technology provider to the global financial industry.

In 2015, FIS acquired SunGard, whose complementary offerings brought FIS into new markets for financial technology services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, treasurers, third-party administrators and clearing agents.

In Q3 2019, FIS acquired Worldpay, a global leader in e-commerce and payments, greatly expanding FIS’ capabilities by enhancing its acquiring and payment offerings and significantly increasing Worldpay’s distribution footprint.

This combination of organic and external growth has positioned FIS among the world's leading technology providers to the capital markets, retail banking and merchant industries. We connect the value chain and use our scale to develop solutions that enable our clients to grow confidently. We help our clients seamlessly adapt to innovations. We share insights and data with one another. We shape better experiences for clients and their customers alike. And we do all of this because at FIS we’re out to lift economies and communities across the world by relentlessly advancing the interests of commerce and the financial world.

 

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