Staff Solution Architect

How This Role Impacts Live Oak and Its People

What You'll Do at Live Oak

Solution Design & Architecture

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for major projects involving complex, multi-system environments and cross-functional business units.

• Conduct architectural evaluations and analyze the existing technology environment to inform solution design decisions.

• Define solution prototypes, reference architectures, and integration patterns that ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability.

• Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and vendors, balancing innovation with pragmatism and long-term sustainability.

• Ensure all solution designs comply with enterprise architecture standards, principles, and strategic guidelines.

Cross-Functional Orchestration & Collaboration

• Serve as the connective thread between internal software engineering, data, IT, and infrastructure teams and external vendors, ensuring all parties are aligned on the solution vision.

• Define collaboration frameworks that bring the right people together at the right time to resolve technical questions and design challenges.

• Facilitate solution design sessions, technical reviews, and architecture discussions that drive toward clear, well-documented outcomes.

• Partner closely with project management to align integration strategies with project objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Documentation & Communication

• Tell the story of how individual components come together into a cohesive solution—translating complex technical architectures into clear narratives for diverse audiences including executive leadership, business partners, and engineering teams.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive solution documentation including architecture diagrams, integration maps, decision records, and technical specifications.

• Communicate technical aspects, risks, trade-offs, and progress with clarity and confidence to stakeholders at all levels.

Delivery & Risk Management

• Define procedures and processes that ensure successful solution delivery from design through implementation.

• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate technical risks across the solution lifecycle, including performance, security, and user experience considerations.

• Oversee solution development to ensure adherence to architectural intent, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Analyze and address technical and business requirements, ensuring solutions are right-sized for the problem at hand.

How You’ll Do It

• By orchestrating—not dictating. You pull the right people into the room, facilitate productive discussions, and synthesize diverse inputs into a clear path forward.

• By communicating with precision and empathy. You translate technical complexity into language that resonates with engineers, business leaders, and vendors alike, using influence and negotiation to drive alignment.

• By taking responsibility for projects from inception to completion, managing expectations across a broad set of stakeholders and influencing outcomes without direct authority.

• By developing innovative problem-framing approaches that enhance efficiency and help teams see challenges from new angles.

• By maintaining a relentless focus on detail—understanding that the success of a complex solution depends on constant, consistent evaluation of every component, no matter how small.

• By staying current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural best practices in financial services, and recommending adoption where it creates genuine value.

• By executing and adapting established processes through cross-functional collaboration to achieve organizational goals, and identifying gaps that need to be addressed for continuous improvement.

• By building trust and credibility through deep technical knowledge, strong people skills, and a track record of delivering well-managed, well-documented solutions.

• Maintain a high standard of regulatory awareness including BSA, AML, CIP, and OFAC

Required Experience

Preferred Experience

• Experience with emerging technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and advanced data platforms.

• Familiarity with industry standards and compliance in Service Integration & Management (SIAM).

• Experience with architecture governance frameworks, technology radar processes, and architectural decision records (ADRs).

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or ITIL.

• Fintech or digital banking experience with exposure to modern lending, payments, or deposit platforms.