My client a multinational financial services company are looking for an experienced Technical Architect to join their team on an initial 6 month contract with view for extension.
The Job:
- Contribute to the creation of the architecture roadmap
- Work across business and technology to create the solution design and architecture and evolve it based on an emerging backlog
- Provide technical thought leadership based on experience building multiple software solutions
- Contribute to the development of design and technology implementation best practices
- Look for better ways to solve technical problems and design solutions
- Ensure architecture is flexible, modular and designed to adapt easily
- Facilitate solution-driven discussions and lead the design, finding creative solutions
- Clarify the architecture and assist with system design (where needed) for the development teams to support implementation and resolve any architectural impediments
- Perform design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (e.g. security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
- Support the Engineering team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions
- Educate team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies and best practices
- Build business-technology relationship through aligning business goals and strategy with technology implementation
- Identifies risks/dependencies that are not easily evident and defines controls needed to resolve/mitigate.
- Proven track record in solution architecture and design across multiple technologies
- Ability to build strong knowledge of products and services at functional and data level
- Excellent technical skills (key technologies used: Oracle, PL/SQL, Informatica, Angular, Java, Spring, Autosys) and good knowledge of emerging technologies
- Experience with data technologies and understanding of metadata and data lineage concepts
- Experience of interfacing with 3rd party vendor platforms
- Exposure to Cloud technologies
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- Ability to create reusable components that can be leveraged across the enterprise
- Strong leader, capable of guiding the technology team to implement technical designs
- Ability to face off to and build strong relationships with business and technology partners
- Experience of working within a large organization or financial services company
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