Solutions Architect Jobs

Our client in the Financial Services sector is actively looking for a Solutions Architect on a full-time permanent basis. The role is HYBRID, and you will be required to go into the office two days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement
• Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.
• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Supports product managers in end of life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps) and ITSM/ITIL
• Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
• 2+ years experience architecting solutions on cloud hosting providers, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS.
• Knowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, NoSQL,MongoDB and Oracle
• 3-5+ years of IT architecture and solution integration experience
• 3+ years of experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs and building complex systems using microservices
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like React, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.