Description
Job Purpose and primary objectives:Department/Practice: Banking & Financial Services
Prepare SOW for SOA implementation guidelines for enterprise. Deliver SOA strategy and guidelines which are fit for purpose and aligned with relevant strategic architecture direction and principles.
Key responsibilities
Through expert architectural skills translate high level business requirements into technology architectures that align to Divisional strategic architecture.
Deliver guidelines (SOA and ESB)
Finalize the architecture guidelines (patterns & anti-patterns, naming conventions, atomic and aggregated services, metadata to transport in all situations (security context and caller context)
define how the services will be model-driven and not DB-driven: details needed in the information conceptual model, link between DB and services, isolation between DB changes and exposed services, coherence of concepts (eg no mix of dates, weeks and periods)
Rules for throttling
Automated non-regression testing - approach
Guidelines for designers and developers (rules for XML conversion (Mainframe or not), toolbox to use)
Guidelines for performance, traceability and monitoring at run time
Governance - Definition and management of the Service Catalogue
Governance principles (eg one service belongs to a domain; analysis are done by the analyst of that domain; projects notify service owners of the services the project will re-use; versioning; building permits; roles and responsibilities
Communication kit and training material
Key Skills/Knowledge:
Must Have:
Domain experience:
Banking experience in one or more of the following:
oCredits
oRetail Banking
oCore Banking
oCredits
oCommercial Banking
Technology:Working experience on multiple application technologies and databases
Should be capable of understanding concepts of various technologies and able to provide technology guidance to application development teams
Familiarity on various Architectural Patterns
Knowledge on Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF
Stakeholder management: Ability to work with Business and Technology teams to design solutions
Desirable:
Experience in designing SOA, BPM solutions for large organizations
Certification on TOGAF is highly desirable