Description
A leader in Financial Services is looking for a Solution Architect to deliver end-to-end solutions and strategic business outcomes.
You will create roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state solutions for initiatives, and work across engineering teams to ensure implementation. You will also be able to pro-actively identify and resolve issues that are inefficient or hindering
Responsibilities include:
- Producing and owning the end-to-end design of solutions spanning multiple software components
- Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design
- Working with Senior Architects to ensure data and functional architectures adhere to high-level architecture principles and supports target state vision
- Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms
- Working with the IT Infrastructure team to make sure planned infrastructure supports the solution software components
- Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative
- Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing software components
- Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers/Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into system requirements
- Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews
Key skills and experience:
- Software and application development
- Designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives
- Working on Investment Management Front Office systems
- Large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning
- Implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of solutions
- Agile delivery methodologies (working knowledge of SAFe is a plus)
- A practical understanding of CI/CD
- Cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. (Red Hat OpenShift and AWS are desirable)
- Defining, designing and implementing Microservices
- Understanding of IBOR and ABOR fundamentals
- Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques - ideally using Pega and Camunda
- Modern enterprise application integration technologies, such as Apache Camel and MuleSoft
Desirable Skills:
- Enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka Big Data technology stacks, such as Cloudera CDH/CDP
- Charles River product and interfaces
- Data management and data quality tools
London based, immediate start, industry-leading rates.
If the above sounds like you and you have a solid background in financial services, please get in touch today.