Job Description

About Raymond James:

Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial, Inc. is a Fortune 500 diversified holding company providing financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through its subsidiary companies engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to capital markets and asset management. Headquartered in Florida, Raymond James Financial has approximately 8,000 financial advisors in 3,000 locations throughout the United States, Canada and overseas. With over 130 consecutive quarters of growth and Service 1st culture, Raymond James Financial aims to be the premier alternative to Wall Street.

Job Summary:

Specific Focus: The Solution Architect for our Corporate Technologies Area will help lead technology transformation initiatives across HR, Finance and Corp. Real Estate/ Security. This includes driving the architectural roadmaps for these areas and researching innovative capabilities/ vendor solutions that will help modernize our business platforms. This role requires strategic thinking and the ability to translate advance technical concepts into meaningful business value for our business partners in these areas. This role must have a strong functional understanding of the HR, Finance and Corporate Real Estate/ Physical Security business processes and able to work effectively with both the business and IT areas. Providing technical direction and ensuring that solutions meet the needs of the business, while conforming to architecture standards.

General Duties: Under general direction with a high level of autonomy, uses extensive knowledge and skills obtained through education and experience to perform the necessary analysis and design tasks related to the development of a solution architecture aligned with a set of competencies. Enables the development of a collection of integrated application systems required to satisfy business information needs. Influences strategic direction, develops tactical plans, and completes complex assignments with substantial latitude for actions or decisions. Provides comprehensive solutions to complex issues and problems. Defines, oversees, and maintains architectural integrity of the overall technology solution of a project, product, or system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Addresses architecturally significant concerns related to hardware, operating system, middleware, DBMS, and 3rd party COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf), plus the interoperability / integration of all architectural layers.
Leads conceptual architecture design for process and integrations across all architecturally defined layers.
Review application and project high-level architectural design to assess impact to overall solution architecture.
Participates in technical design and code reviews as needed.
Designs solutions within defined architectural standards, principles and guidelines.
Provides breadth and depth of knowledge in areas involving infrastructure and operational interfacing across applications; does deep dive on technical issues.
Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the business services and processes.
Designs and participates in the implementation of an enterprise architecture based on business requirements and information technology strategies and trends.
Designs and participates in the governance activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise technical and/or solutions architecture.
Consults with application development projects to fit systems to the enterprise technical and/or solution architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the application to accommodate new technology and/or solution and application trends or visa versa.
Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

HR Platforms and processes including Human Capital Management Systems, Learning Management, Talent Acquisition, Payroll/ Compensation and Benefits Administration.
Financial systems and processes is also preferred: Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Procurement/Sourcing, Treasury/ Cash Management, GL and Enterprise Performance Management (Planning, Budgeting & Consolidations).
Corporate Real Estate/ Facilities Management and Physical Security Systems and processes preferred.
Basic financial models and budgeting.
The perspectives, interests, and agendas of others in the organization.
General Knowledge of all components of the enterprise technical architecture and process. With exposure to Portal technologies, RPA, Machine Learning and Chat-Bots preferred.
System Development Life Cycle and Principles of Project Management.

Skill in:

Promoting the benefits of change and developing systems and/or procedures to effectively implement change.
Applying effective questioning and listening techniques to determine each party's position. Looks for common ground and builds on areas of agreement. Ensures that the agreed-upon alternatives have the support of all parties involved.
Technical and analytical leadership with ability to translate complex technical solutions in terms that our business partners can understand.

Ability to:

Understand the organization's working structure, politics, mission, and strategies.
Work well with all levels of management and associates.
Use effective communication and interpersonal skills to convince others to accept ideas or goals (with or without the formal authority of a higher position.)
Convey information clearly and effectively through both formal and informal documents and/or verbal communications.
Establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the team's knowledge of and concern for the customer requirements.
Gain agreement and commitment from others to support and implement methods or processes.
See the big picture and be future-oriented. Able to anticipate future trends and consequences accurately.
Translate business needs into requirements for technical alternatives.
Apply multiple information technology solutions to business problems.
Estimate financial impact of the technical and/or solution architecture alternatives.
Learn and apply new information, skills, and processes, quickly.
Promote team cohesiveness, cooperation, and effectiveness.
Do what is right and in the overall best interest of the work group and the company.
Demonstrate uncompromising adherence to ethical operating and technical procedures.

Education/Previous Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Ccience, Systems Analysis, or a related study.
A minimum of three (3) years experience required in at least two (2) Information Technology disciplines in a client/server environment, including, but not limited to, technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, operations OR an equivalent combination of education, experience and training.
A minimum of seven (7) years experience required supporting Human Resources and/ or Financial Systems including Payroll/ Compensation.

Licenses/Certifications:

None required.