We deliver on this mission by empowering our employees by encouraging and recognizing superior performance and innovative solutions, by promoting teamwork and divisional cooperation.
Primary Function
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for supporting the Customer 360 technology roadmap, developing a deep understanding of the current technologies that enable the customer experience, and building a bridge to support digital strategies the future. The Enterprise Architect will partner with Marketing, Sales, Technology and Digital Experience stakeholders to define and execute the Technology roadmap.
Principal Duties
Serve as a key contributor to identify, evaluate, and execute the development and implementation of Technology Roadmaps bridging Marketing, Sales, Digital Experience, Infrastructure and Service/Platform design and delivery:
- Deliver collaborative work products that align with divisional and enterprise stakeholder strategies.
- Define and produce Technology roadmaps spanning multiple stakeholders, business processes, and technology stacks while incorporating principles of product management, design-thinking, and human-centered design.
- Define and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and frameworks for application development, data management, infrastructure, and security across all systems.
- Provide architectural guidance to project teams, reviewing solution designs to ensure compliance with established standards and best practices.
- Develop highly complex research products vetting our current landscape against future trends; while evangelizing the bridge to get there, cultural adoption, and change management necessary to realize the value of investments.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence) and assess their potential impact on the business, recommending new solutions where appropriate.
- Consult with business and technical staff to understand business need and provide thought leadership on solutions during requirements gathering sessions.
- Support critical strategic initiatives and architect simple to moderately complex technology implementation projects.
- Contribute to delivery of multiple large, complex data engineering projects simultaneously.
- Identify potential architectural risks and mitigation strategies, ensuring system resilience and data integrity.
Core Development Stack:
- Frameworks: .NET, Java, SQL, Hadoop, Spark, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, Glue, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, Kinesis, Sagemaker, Snowflake, etc.), T-SQL, etc.
- Tools/Product suites: Campaign Management, CRMs, Contact Centers, AI- Driven Chat, Rules-Based Engines for Next-Best-Actions
- Develop and deliver clear, compelling briefings to internal and external stakeholders on findings, recommendations, and solutions.
- Analyze heterogenous data & systems to determine whether requirements can be met.
- Participate in testing and validating application integrations, data pipelines, transformations, datasets, reports, and dashboards built by delivery team.
- Develop and communicate solutions architectures and present solutions to both business and technical stakeholders.
- Provide end user support to aid change management and cultural adoption.
- Performs related duties as assigned by management.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field.
- Master’s degree in related field, preferred.
- 7-10 years’ experience.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing complex IT systems within the financial services industry.
- Experience with both best of breed platforms, but new and emerging Microservice-based solutions that are gaining traction.
- Experience with legacy and emerging integration, data, & analytics technologies, including SOAP & REST APIs, RDBMS, ETL, and Analytics/BI architectures and workloads.
- Experience with Hadoop or other big data technologies.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud technologies.
- Experience with agile delivery methodologies and/or JIRA.
- Experience working on Linux command-line.
Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements
- Ability to collaborate with all levels.
- Seasoned understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Possess deep technical background balanced with the ability to build trust as a business champion.
- Ability to address technologies that service a broad array of needs.
- Application Lifecycle management knowledge.
- Cloud-based solution design and engineering.
- AWS infrastructure as service, integration, data, and analytics deployments.
- Familiarity with comparable services for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
- Microservice and Micro-application Strategies and Tactical Roadmaps
- Real time streaming data delivery.
- Configuration DevOps experience.
- API-first architectures.
- API Integration technologies, including MuleSoft, Apigee, etc.
Additional Information:
While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.
All employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Okta Verify and Microsoft Authenticator. Employment will be contingent on this requirement.
Company Benefits:
Newrez is a great place to work but we are only as strong as our greatest asset, our employees, so we believe in rewarding them!
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Health Savings Account with employer contribution
401(k) Retirement plan with employer match
Paid Maternity Leave/Parental Bonding Leave
Pet insurance
Adoption Assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Loan Program
The Newrez Employee Emergency and Disaster Fund is a new program to support our team members
Newrez NOW:
Our Corporate Social Responsibility program, Newrez NOW, empowers employees to become leaders in their communities through a robust program that includes volunteering, philanthropy, nonprofit grants, and more
1 Volunteer Time Off (VTO) day, company-paid volunteer day where all eligible employees may participate in a volunteer event with a nonprofit of their choice
Employee Matching Gifts Program: We will match monetary employee donations to eligible non-profit organizations, dollar-for-dollar, up to $1,000 per employee
Newrez Grants Program: Newrez hosts a giving portal where we provide employees an abundance of resources to search for an opportunity to donate their time or monetary contributions
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We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer- and celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.
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Newrez LLC (Newrez) is a leading nationwide mortgage lender and servicer. As a lender, Newrez focuses on offering a breadth of industry-leading products, supported by a loan process that blends both human interaction and the benefits of technology into an unparalleled customer experience. Founded in 2008 and licensed to lend in 50 states, Newrez is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania and operates multiple lending channels, including Correspondent Lending, Wholesale, Direct-to-Consumer, Retail, and a network of joint venture partners. Newrez’s servicing business consists of its performing loan servicing division, Newrez Servicing, and its special servicing division, Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing. Newrez also has several affiliates that perform various services in the mortgage and real estate industries. These include Avenue 365 Lender Services, LLC, a title agency, and E Street Appraisal Management LLC, an appraisal management company. Newrez is member of the New Residential Investment Corp. family. More information is available at www.newrez.com.
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