Description
We are looking for a highly technical architect to join a large bank project.This role will be based out of Dublin. Travel & accommodation expenses from London can be claimed for this role.
This position focuses on defining a container based architecture that can respond to current and future digital business requirements, business systems, and business processes evolving in the Integrated PaaS (iPaaS) journey.
Essential skills:
- Strong Cloud platform experience and knowledge around automation, ie DevOps and automated deployment.
- Experience with most of the following: Java stack (J2EE, Spring), SOA architecture, REST API development, relational and no-SQL databases, Jenkins, test automation tools (eg: Cucumber, Protractor), Chef, AWS stack, Docker, web-development languages (eg: Angular) and DevOps tooling like Jira, Confluence, Stash Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory...etc.
- Integration skills
- Experience of designing a cloud platform which hosts multiple, integrated applications
- 12+ years overall IT system architecture, design, development, deployment experience with proven credentials of developing, designing & architecting solutions for enterprise firms
- Experience working in the banking sector
Role responsibilities:
* Lead efforts to define future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
* Demonstrate leadership role in ensuring that new systems are aligned to architectural guidelines
* Identify, deliver, and document the required artifacts to make solutions available, including strategy collateral, technical roadmaps, position statements, policies, standards, concepts, and logical specifications.
* After the architecture phase, the Architect actively consults throughout the execution phases, including design, engineering, migration, implementation, and operations. They feed implementation and operational challenges back into architectural opportunities.
* The client are using IBM's Bluemix cloud solution to host the T24 core banking platform and the various other systems which integrate with it, so this role will involve designing a cloud platform which hosts multiple, integrated applications.