Job Description
The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we're faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact-in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?
About the team
The Business Solutions Group (BSG) is an industry-leading sales organization driven by a culture of high performance and accountability that delivers sustained growth for FIS. The overall team has a combined 1,500 years of experience supporting over 300 of the solutions that FIS has to offer. As the specialized experts and growth engine supporting our sales executives, it is the team's mission to continually evolve the demands of our industry and clients, growing and retaining business in each of our market segments. The team's purpose is to provide exceptional support to enable our clients' success through partnership and thought leadership, bringing solutions that allow them to meet and exceed their business goals. It is here that you will find teammates that act boldly to articulate the FIS Modernization Journey, deliver a unified value proposition, and demonstrate a personalized user experience by putting clients and employees first.
What you will be doing
This is an advanced professional position that plays an integral role in complex sales opportunities utilizing industry and solution knowledge to provide technical expertise to uncover prospect needs and requirements to construct, develop, recommend, and package the best possible products/solutions and/or services to solve a prospect's evolving business objectives. As the Solution Architect (SA) you will be responsible for creating a set of "enterprise solutions, applications, and processes that integrate with each other in order to address specific client needs and requirements."
The SA possesses a unique set of skills, is the leader of the solutioning process, adaptable, and the trusted advisor for prospects and clients. Key traits of a SA include:

• Expert communicator
• Technical
• Detail-oriented
• Strong analytical and people skills
• Resource management
• Leader who shares best practices and experiences
• Problem solver

As the Solution Architect, you will:

• Partner with the Seller to lead complex, multi-solution sales opportunities for prospects and existing clients
• Take lead in expanding and influencing opportunities
• Participate in pre-RFI/RFP meetings with consultant and/or prospect to pre-qualify prospect and/or provide information
• Be responsible for and effectively manager RFI/RFP, including:
  • Assisting with answering RFI/RFP and determine assignment of questions
  • Conducting final review of RFI/RFP and making appropriate changes

• Understand the competitive market and business/technical landscape to solve business problems
• Architect a solution within complex, multi-solutioned environments
• Create architecture artifacts: solution overview, diagram, and detailed solution matrix

• Assist in answering technical, integration, overall solution, and unique cross-product specific questions
• Conduct discovery sessions and solution specific insight meetings
• Assist with solving complex integration issues between disparate systems while identifying and reducing the threat of risks
• Provide technical consultation and disseminate client/solution information to the sales team as needed

• Present initial solution overview to internal and external clients, answers questions, and pursue follow up items as needed
• Research required third party components to complete the service offering including support of selection processes to procure such components
• Assists in creating prospect/consultant presentations with cross-functional and technical requirements
• Participates in prospect/consultant presentations
• Log estimate requests for development/integration/special conversion methodologies
• Meets sales goals and objectives
• Conduct meetings with development staff to solution client/prospect requirements
• Conduct interim solution reviews with prospects, consultants, and internal as needed
• Assist seller with establishing pricing proposal
• Conduct turn-over solution review meeting with internal clients and participate in implementation meetings post contract signing and provide ongoing internal consultation as necessary
• Assist in making recommendations on products to go to market
• Work with product teams to stay abreast of and influence product roadmaps, enhancements, updates, etc.
  What you bring
• Thought leadership, commitment, passion, and integrity
• Extensive financial industry experience
• Ability to effectively communicate, present and demonstrate solutions to all levels - both within FIS and to external prospects and clients. This includes translating complex problems into simplified solutions both written and verbally.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working trusted technology advisor relationships with prospective clients, clients, and key decision makers, as well as FIS employees at all levels and various representative areas.
• Strong analytical skills to determine client and prospect business needs and requirements
• Good understanding of specific FIS products and services
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs
• Must be detailed-oriented and possess strong leadership skills
• General knowledge of financial and/or payment solutions technology including systems, applications, and banking practices
• Excellent presentation, writing, organizational and project management skills
• Expert communication skills, both written and verbal
• Solid decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Ability to remain calm under various levels of pressure
• Ability to work well in an independent as well as team environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools, specifically PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Visio
• Ability to travel is required
• Other related duties assigned as needed

What we offer you:
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:• Opportunities to innovate in fintech• Tools for personal and professional growth• Inclusive and diverse work environment• Resources to invest in your community• Competitive salary and benefits
Privacy Statement
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EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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