Enterprise Architect

Company Overview:

One Park Financial (OPF) is a leading Financial Technology company dedicated to empowering small businesses by connecting them with a wide variety of flexible financing and funding options. Our mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the working capital they need to elevate their businesses to new heights. At OPF, we believe in working with high-performing individuals who are ready to play an integral part in our company's expansion. We know that our success hinges on our people, and we strive to enable them to do what they do best.

Why Join Us?

At OPF, we foster a dynamic and inclusive company culture that emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and personal growth. Our team is composed of passionate, driven individuals who are committed to making a difference. Here's what you can expect when you join our team:

• Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and be part of a team that is constantly pushing the boundaries of fintech.
• Professional Growth: We invest in our employees' growth with continuous learning opportunities, training programs, and career advancement paths.
• Supportive Culture: Enjoy a supportive and inclusive work environment where your ideas are valued, and your contributions make a real impact.
• Community Focus: Be part of a company that understands the importance of small and mid-sized businesses to their communities and the nation's financial health.
• High-Performing Team: Join a team of badasses who are committed to excellence and are integral to our company's expansion and success.

Role Overview:

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for managing the transformation and optimization initiatives and serves as a leader in applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the business and operating model of the organization. Enterprise Architects lead Enterprise Architecture practice and its initiatives to enable the organization to better respond to business units and customer needs and the changing environment. The Enterprise Architect will drive the overall enterprise architecture programs, frameworks, guiding principles, and maintain technology standards and design best practices. Ultimately, the Enterprise Architect ensures that solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable, meeting the organization's long-term objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates execution of business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's technology strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Drives enterprise architecture practices, programs, and guiding principles to help IT effectively and efficiently support business strategy.
• Maintains and evangelizes technology standards and guidelines and identify application and technology rationalization opportunities.
• Promotes modern technical and design best practices and trends, and act as a visionary to continue to progress architectural direction for future projects.
• Adapts to changing business and operating models.
• Drives technology, architecture standards, reference architecture and design patterns for enterprise digital applications.
• Conduct architecture reviews ensuring technical, functional and non-functional requirements are covered in solution design and implementation and adheres to technology standards.
• Architect and document technical blueprints for enterprise web and mobile applications, detailing system architecture, data models, integration interfaces, and technical configurations
• Guide and mentor solution architects and technology teams.

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in IT and business/industry including strategic and operations planning,
• 2-5 years conducting focused architecture work; strategic visioning, developing artifacts, road-mapping, continuous improvement, solutioning, influencing and facilitating architecture decisions, coaching teams and people.
• Architecting enterprise scale web and mobile applications, APIs and microservices.
• Experience in DevOps and Agile technology environments.
• Experience with enterprise platforms like Salesforce.

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., agile, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).
• Experience in architecting highly trafficked customers facing web and mobile applications, cloud native, performant and highly Available with minimum RPO & RTO.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, Gen AI, Agentic AI and its applicability in delivering exceptional user experiences.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to communicate with business acumen and work with diverse stakeholders, including those in an outsourced environment.
• Proven ability to support development of teammates by sharing knowledge and experience.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• 401k with Match
• Health insurance
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Monthly events