We’re looking for talented professionals, anywhere in the United States, to join us in bringing smart money management and payment solutions to everyone’s fingertips.
At Green Dot, we are evolving to a new and permanent “Work from Anywhere” model designed to maximize the benefits of remote work, promote and enable a strong culture of performance and connectedness, and attract the best and brightest talent who align with our entrepreneurial spirit and mission.
JOB DESCRIPTION
What does a Solution Architect do at Green Dot?
You will be responsible for defining, designing, and documenting Green Dot’s banking platform capabilities in partnership with our business partners, product owners, and technical SME’s. You will be responsible for assessing our vendor & partners technical offerings and integration requirements and bring these integrations to life through the evaluation and design phases and supporting the engineering team through the implementation phases. You will also provide technical leadership, mentoring and problem solving/risk mitigation to the engineering teams aligned with delivering solutions for the business domains.
You will join our Tailfin Product Development team and will be our principal solution architect for this team and manage all facets of Green Dot’s endeavors for expansion of services as part of the Tailfin Joint Venture.
As a Solution Architect, you can look forward to:
Support for Product and Sales teams
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Act as a Subject Matter Expert to our Product and Business Development teams versed on our Platform capabilities and multiple technology stacks in support of the Tailfin Joint Venture.
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Analyze complex financial products and integrations and propose a range of meaningful recommendations and customer-centric technical solutions
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Support business development teams to scope, design and plan work needed to integrate new and existing partners including speaking/meeting with prospective clients.
Solution Design & Delivery
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Responsible for combining information from business, internal functions and technology through ideation, design, and implementation to solve business requirements and problems
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Project and solution effort estimation and team structure definition
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Ensure implemented applications, technologies and services fit for the intended purpose
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Create, coordinate, and maintain High Level Design and LLD Low Level Design, and own E2E process flows. Manage technical design and planning process with relevant technical SMEs
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Support the SW Engineering teams through guidance, research and removing blockers
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Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
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Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.
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Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
Change Catalyst
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Define, coordinate, and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision, strategic direction, and framework
Ready to join us in our mission? These are the qualifications we are looking for:
Required:
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Minimum 10 years of total technology experience, preferably in software development
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Minimum 5 years of Solution Architecture / Technical Product Management Experience
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Minimum 5 years of experience in FinTech, Financial Products and Payment Processing
- Leadership skills; experience providing mentoring and support to SW Engineers
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Excellent analytical skills, ability to understand complex business issues and translate to solutions based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis
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Proven ability to Partner with Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations and other stakeholders to effective design the solution, and support the technical effort estimation and timeline activities.
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Proven ability to Partner with Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations and other stakeholders to successfully launch and maintain complex products
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Hands on experience and ability to develop and maintain end to end solution process flows at both high and detailed levels
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Proven ability to understand what the technology needs to do and zero in on and mitigate risks that may inhibit the technology delivering what the business needs.
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Experience implementing event- or message-driven distributed architectures
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Experience planning and shipping complex software releases in an agile software development lifecycle
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Excellent communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation settings with a range of audiences both business and technical, individual contributor and leadership
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Work effectively remotely and with remote teams using collaboration technology
POSITION TYPE
Regular
PAY RANGE
The targeted base salary for this position is $147,500 to $225,400 per year. The final compensation will be determined by a number of factors such as qualifications, expertise, and the candidate’s geographical location.
Green Dot promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Green Dot provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.
Top Skills
What We Do
Green Dot is a financial technology and registered bank holding company committed to delivering trusted, best-in-class money management and payment solutions to customers and partners, seamlessly connecting people to their money. Green Dot’s proprietary technology enables it to build products and features that address the most pressing financial challenges of consumers and businesses, transforming the way they manage and move money and making financial empowerment more accessible for all.
Green Dot offers a broad set of financial services to consumers and businesses including debit, checking, credit, prepaid, and payroll cards, as well as robust money processing services, tax refunds, cash deposits and disbursements. Its flagship digital banking platform GO2bank offers consumers simple and accessible mobile banking designed to help improve financial health over time. The company’s banking platform services business enables a growing list of the world’s largest and most trusted consumer and technology brands to deploy customized, seamless, value-driven money management solutions for their customers.
Founded in 1999, Green Dot has served more than 33 million customers directly and many millions more through its partners. The Green Dot Network of more than 90,000 retail distribution locations nationwide, more than all remaining bank branches in the U.S. combined, enables it to operate primarily as a “branchless bank.” Green Dot Bank is a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation and member of the FDIC . For more information about Green Dot’s products and services, please visit www.greendot.com.
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The Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland will accept all questions or complaints from Maryland residents regarding Green Dot Corporation, NMLS ID #914924 at 1100 North Eutaw Street, Suite 611; Baltimore, MD 21201, phone 888-784-0136. NMLS Consumer Access: https://nmlsconsumeraccess.org/
