Senior Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect, it’s your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, you are equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations. Having earned your stripes in designing web-based architectures, you have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.

To the development team, you are the vital mainstay during processes of implementation. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen feel for their needs. So besides being a great technician, you are also a considerate companion who delivers remarkable results on a continuous basis.

You will be part of the development team in which you will fulfill a leading role only gained by excellent performance. Talking highly specific technical details as well as discussing general business outcomes, you comfortably translate customer requirements into a distinguished design. You dedicate yourself to security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability and serviceability.

You know our projects are to be delivered according to briefing, time and budget, but you also know our technicians need their space to build the solutions you’ve defined. By creating structure and clear explanations, you provide guidance and oversight to your team.

Also part of the job is creating technical architecture documentation; working with the QA lead to define the test strategy; leading DevOps to define and implement CI/CD pipelines; ensuring that implementations meet non-functional requirements, and you will be traveling a significant amount of the time, spending time on-site during the inception phase and when providing training and workshops.

• You have 10+ years of work experience as a solutions architect for a leading product/platform in the financial services industry. However, a can-do mentality is of more importance than many years of the perfect experience;
• You have experience with Spring, Maven and Jenkins;
• You have a demonstrable understanding of Micro-Services Architecture and are familiar with architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, and event sourcing;
• You know JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns, and principles of REST APIs;
• You know popular Mobile technologies including Swift and Kotlin.
• You have a strong knowledge of containerisation platforms including Docker and Kubernetes;
• You have a great knowledge of security best practices and technologies such as Identity and Access Control platforms.
• Ideally you have worked professionally with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks;
• And let’s not forget your broad, operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment;
• You have experience with server virtualization and container technology such as Docker, VMWare, and HyperV;
• You have professionally used Integration Platforms, Enterprise Service Busses, API Gateways, etc.
• You have experience and knowledge working with major cloud vendors, especially Azure and AWS.
• You are smart and digital savvy. A true team player with a sense of humor, hands-on and self-motivated, able to drive progress and hit deadlines;
• Your strong interpersonal and communication skills ensure successful customer engagements across multiple teams & cultures

You have excellent English speaking, writing, and presentation skills, as well as a strong ability to persuade, inspire, and motivate others;

• You’re happy to distill complex ideas into digestible formats for varied audiences, either prepared or ad-hoc at the white-board.
• You see opportunity in problems rather than roadblocks and thrive on problem solving internally as well as with customers;
• You have the ability to prioritize and plan effectively with a demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and in ambiguity. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and stay flexible and adaptable to growth and change.
• You are as comfortable speaking with developers and architects as you are with business executives.