Description
Solutions Architect/Software Design/Systems Architecture/ETL
Location: Hampshire
Duration: 3 months [with option to extend]
Steria Recruitment Ltd (a Steria company) provides recruitment and resourcing solutions to Steria, a leading European IT service provider.
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY:
- This assignment will offer you potential long-term prospects, working with one of Steria's most prestigious Government Clients. Steria Recruitment is part of Steria, the UK's leading Outsourcing and Technology Company.
- This is an exclusive and exciting new contract opportunity for a Solutions Architect working an initial three month period providing technical leadership and innovation in the development of Systems and Software Architecture.
- The solution will be implemented as a master data store, incorporating the Extract, Transform and Load processes, graphical user interface and batch processes.
- The solution is required to maintain interfaces with many data sources and repositories, both internal and external to the client.
- The technology stack of the solution is a blend of Talend, PL/SQL and Java.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leads development of systems architectures for complex systems or an entire corporate suite of systems. Takes full responsibility for ensuring that systems architectures balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements as indicated by the business requirement.
- Establishes policy for the selection of systems architecture components, and takes responsibility for the strategy and methods used in implementing a systems architecture in a significant organisation.
- Co-ordinates design activity between the systems architecture, application development and service delivery functions and promotes the discipline to ensure consistency.
- Maintains a detailed knowledge of current practice and an awareness of current developments within own area(s) of expertise. Keeps up to date on relevant emerging technologies
- Produces detailed component specifications from systems architectures, taking into consideration the intended uses of the architectures as a whole.
- Takes a leading and visible role in the development and promotion of the technical specialism.
- Takes responsibility for the provision of quality assurance of activities involving the technical specialism, which is carried out by others.
- Optional: Develops new techniques for use in systems architecture. Promotes the systems architecture discipline within the wider ICT community. Takes an active role in the development of other staff
- Optional: Manages or coordinate's the systems architecture function within an organisation
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
- Enterprise integration technologies
- Enterprise applications (preferably Oracle E-business suite)
- Java and J2EE (preferably Oracle Application Server)
- Relational Databases (preferably Oracle)
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- SAS
- IBM Rational tools (for modelling, configuration management, change management, requirements management, testing and modelling)
- AGILE
- RUP
- DSDM
- Visual Architecting Process
- Structured architecture review techniques (preferably ATAM)
Desirable:
- Educated to degree standard (or equivalent)
- Be familiar with the structure and configuration of operating infrastructures (hardware, operating systems, networks) and their significance in defining an application architecture
- Considerable experience in software development (ie coding) including some OO software development
The successful candidate must be willing to go through required security clearance process. No agencies, so contact me.
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