Description
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
6 Month Contract
Croydon OR Dublin
£pd
*Must be willing to travel approx. 25% as the Project is to deploy an Underwriting System in South Africa.*
Job Purpose:
* As a member of the EMEA CTO Architecture team, the candidate will articulate architecture strategy throughout the region to support systems delivery.
* Design component/service-based systems architectures to meet objectives for business processing needs.
* As an individual contributor, this position has no direct line management responsibilities but is a major contributor to the success of mission critical, complex, typically large, often enterprise-wide major systems projects and innovations.
Skills & Experience:
* Degree in a related technical discipline
* Experience in insurance or financial services systems development including in the design of component - and/or service-based systems/applications.
* Ability to interact with multiple projects concurrently.
* Ability to lead technology evaluation efforts, including the definition of the evaluation criteria, identification of technologies to be evaluated, and the actual evaluation
* Ability to create and deliver technical presentations to technical and non-technical staff, as appropriate to the target audience.
* Ability to engage with project teams in a leadership role, advocating on behalf of architectural principles and standards, and making compromises where appropriate.
* Experience of performance testing strategies to validate non-functional requirements.
* Experience of data integration patterns (ETL, EII, MDM) and tools (IBM InfoSphere, IBM MDM).
Desired:
* Prior experience in an International environment.
* Ability to manage team meetings and presentations and coordinate with off-site teams and or vendors.
* Prior experience of TOGAF.
* Experience in the definition and delivery of a Service Based Architecture via ESB technology
* Experience of the following technologies is desirable;
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- SiteMinder
- IBM Content Manager, IBM FileNet
- Cognos, Qlikview
- ACTURIS
- Citrix Enablement to support the offshoring of Business Processes.
Please apply online. Shortlisted applicants will be provided with a full job specification.
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