Description
Solution Architect: LNG TradingA World Leading Energy Company has an exciting opportunity for a Solution Architect to help design and build a complex application landscape for fundamental modelling. Build best in class fundamental market analysis across all geographies and time horizons to underpin decision making for LNG and the voluntary carbon market, this team aims to improve the data available for trading analytics to support decision making.
This Leading European Energy Company is looking for an experienced solution architect to work with the Fundamental Analysis teams supporting the business.
Alongside the solution architect skills the domain knowledge that the ideal candidate has will include:
Experience designing solutions in an API-first, microservice landscapes, including rearchitecting Legacy solutions to modern cloud-native application patterns
Significant experience working with landscapes for complex data activities using Azure toolsets - AzureML, Databricks, ADF, ADLS etc.
Strong knowledge of trading and market drivers for one or more of our key commodities - LNG, gas, power, or carbon/environmental products, including the importance of fundamentals (supply/demand/capacity/inventory/prices/trades/etc.) in market price movements
knowledge of fundamental modelling and curve trading, including the use of statistical analysis in predictive models for supply/demand and price forecasting
Working understanding of settlements and accounting associated to renewable generation
Working understanding of how Risk and P&L is captured and represented for assets including interfacing with the ETRM
Solution Architect Core Job Description:
Solution Architect is responsible for delivering solution designs to projects. These solutions need to be fit for purpose within the portfolio, have technical integrity, the right TCO (total cost of ownership) through its life cycle and a good fit with the IT technology direction of the company. The resultant High Level Design have a measurable impact on the effectiveness and profitability of the business.
Responsibilities include:
1. Provide solution architecture development, consultancy and assurance to projects, making sure applications are well designed and conform to company standards and reference/segment architectures. The Solution Architect is accountable to the Project Manager for the architecture of a solution being developed and implemented until the successful deployment of the solution.
This includes:
a. Being the point of call for all architecture aspects of an IT Project.
b. Being able to address and integrate the: Business Process, Data, Application, Technical and Information Security aspects of an IT Solution.
c. Ensure projects solution architecture is documented using the relevant templates, tooling and conforms to standards.
d. Coach detailed designers and business analysts in projects during their design work.
e. Reviewing and accepting the detailed design of an IT solution.
f. Support Segment Architects and reviews through the Architecture Review Board as required.
2. Take an active role in documenting, improving & maintaining the Reference Models in Systems Architect. Lifting project deliverables to the Conceptual and Logical levels.
3. Follow IT Technology developments in the market and leverage this knowledge in architecting solutions in the company. Ensure solutions are 'future-proof'
4. Stay in touch with development of standards and standard services in IT at the company. To ensure the latest service developments are taken into account.
5. Pro-actively contribute to the development of the Architecture community and be an ambassador for Architecture. Interact with stakeholders on architecture issues and strategic improvements where such expertise is required.
6. Maintain knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements, including data privacy regulations (eg GDPR), and ensure that those are included in architecture design decisions.
7. Responsible for championing and embedding Security by Design and Privacy by Design in projects, and to ensure that the appropriate design decisions are made, documented and implemented.
8. Work with IRM and DPO/SECO in case of unclarity around L&R requirements
This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi-cultural environment. You also need to be a self-starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely. We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age. Specialising within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and TV & Entertainment, Eaglecliff Recruitment is ISO accredited, a Member of REC and listed within the top 4% for Financial stability by Dun & Bradstreet. Please telephone for an immediate response or email your CV for a reply within one hour. Eaglecliff Ltd is acting in the capacity of an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for contractor resourcing