Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: Remote, NY
Employment: Temp (6 months)
Industry: Banking
Compensation: $80.00/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity:
- Supports an assigned portfolio through architecting and designing comprehensive solutions to meet product needs.
- Works collaboratively with other Solution Architects to assist in the creation of solutions that align to architecture standards and principles, leveraging common solutions and services, while meeting financial targets.
- We are seeking a skilled Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of proprietary crypto coin infrastructure within our financial organization.
- The architect will work closely with engineering, product, and compliance teams to build secure, scalable, and regulatory-compliant solutions for native crypto coins, supporting the bank's expansion into digital assets and decentralized finance.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Actively participate and collaborate on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs with the assigned Agile teams.
- Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding solution designs.
- Assist domain decision-making by working with domain subject matter experts to articulate the value and tradeoffs of the solution options.
- Participate in the creation of enterprise architecture standards and evaluate the quality and compliance of delivered solutions to ensure alignment with those standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives in Agile team ceremonies.
- Produce, enhance, and refine conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture for strategic initiatives that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision.
- Contribute to the research and identification of potential impacts of existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends within a domain.
- Participate in governance activities as needed.
- Objectively contribute to the evaluation and resolution of domain specific architecture problems in partnership with domain subject matter experts.
- Assist other enterprise and solution architects to manage and design architecture for dependent products.
- Harness existing technology resources through collaboration to benefit solutioning efforts.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client's brand.
- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
- Solution Design: Translate business requirements into technical solutions for crypto coin interoperability, ensuring compliance and performance.
- Crypto Coin Platform Architecture: Architect and oversee the development of proprietary crypto coin systems, including consensus mechanisms, tokenomics, and smart contract frameworks.
- Blockchain Network Operations: Design and manage blockchain node infrastructure, validator networks, and cross-chain interoperability for native crypto coins.
- Technical Architecture: Design detailed architecture for coin issuance, transaction processing, wallet management, and blockchain network management with focus on scalability and security.
- Technology Stack Oversight: Recommend decisions on blockchain protocols (e.g., Ethereum, Hyperledger, Solana), cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), APIs, and databases.
- Integration: Implement integration strategies for legacy financial systems and third-party services (e.g., KYC/AML, custodians).
- Digital Asset Security: Implement advanced cryptographic protocols, key management solutions (HSMs, MPC), and penetration testing for all digital asset platforms.
- Compliance: Ensure system designs meet regulatory standards (e.g., SEC, NYDFS, MiCA, GDPR, FATF Travel Rule) and conduct risk assessments.
- Integration with DeFi and Web3: Evaluate and integrate DeFi protocols, decentralized exchanges, and Web3 services to expand the utility and reach of proprietary coins.
- Delivery Oversight: Guide implementation teams to ensure timely and successful project delivery.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate technical concepts effectively to stakeholders and support decision-making.
- Technology Evaluation: Assess emerging technologies (DeFi, CBDCs, NFTs, DAOs) to enhance solution capabilities.
- Ecosystem Partnerships: Collaborate with external partners, open-source communities, and vendors to accelerate adoption and interoperability of the client's crypto solutions.
- Documentation: Produce technical documentation including architecture diagrams, data flows, and security protocols.
- Reference Architectures & Best Practices: Develop reusable reference architectures and best practices for crypto infrastructure, sharing insights with engineering and product teams.
- Design scalable, compliant endtoend solution architectures.
- Clear stakeholder communication across business, tech, and risk.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Minimum of 9+ years of experience in software or service engineering and delivery.
- Minimum of 9+ years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns.
- Minimum of 9+ years of hands-on experience in blockchain technology, digital asset platforms, and financial systems integration.
- Minimum of 9+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), containerization (Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.
- Minimum of 9+ years of experience architecting and deploying crypto coin platforms or digital asset infrastructure at scale.
- Minimum of 9+ years of experience in stablecoin and fintech.
- Minimum of 9+ years of experience in solution architecture or technical implementation.
What Sets You Apart:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design.
- Experience in delivering technology and enterprise level presentations.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Industry recognized certification in programming languages or cloud technologies.
- Experience working in the financial services industry.
- Ability to work and communicate with various stakeholders at differing levels of the organization.
- Ability to research and apply modern technology trends related to technology initiatives.
- Ability to research, evaluate and articulate multiple approaches to solving technical problems.
- Foundational Understanding: Wallet & key management, transaction orchestration, smart contract lifecycle management, on-chain analytics and forensics, asset onboarding, monitoring, and offboarding, and node infrastructure.
- Blockchain: Token standards, decentralized governance, and cross-chain interoperability.
- Crypto Coins: In-depth knowledge of coin lifecycle management, including minting, burning, staking, and governance.
- Financial Systems: Payment networks (e.g., ACH), liquidity management, and settlement processes.
- Regulatory Landscape: Global regulations (e.g., SEC, MiCA, NYDFS) and compliance tools (e.g., Chainalysis).
- Security: Cryptography, HSMs, and penetration testing methodologies.
- Awareness of emerging trends in digital assets, such as CBDCs, programmable money, and decentralized identity.
- Certifications: AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Blockchain Architect, or crypto security/digital asset compliance certifications.
- Proficient in system design, integration, and implementation across multiple technology domains.
- Proven track record in deploying scalable financial systems (e.g., payment gateways, digital wallets, cryptocurrency systems preferred).
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.
- Understanding of financial regulations, compliance, and security standards.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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May 14, 2026