Senior Architect

Senior Architect reports to the Director of Architecture within the Risk Intelligence team. Risk Intelligence is responsible for developing critical services that support anti-money laundering efforts in the financial markets.

We are looking for a solution architect who has the technical expertise and leadership capability to influence technology strategy within the business.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Put together Logical, Physical, Implementation and Process architecture designs where required.
• Support application development teams with governance, privacy, compliance, and risk analysis process.  
• Providing senior stakeholders with conceptual ideas of how solutions can be designed, at what cost and high-level timescales.
• Own, champion and oversee key quality of service requirements implementation for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity, and compatibility.
• Partner with Application and Cloud Architects to produce where required:
• Domain/business logic model design
• Interoperability design such as API and Messaging
• Data model design
• Cloud and on-prem design
• Pair design with Application Architects and technical leads. Develop their design skills so that they become self-reliant.
• Produce proof of concepts that could be handed over to the Application Architects for full-scale development.
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and architecture councils, lead the development of architectural standards by leading and influencing architecture teams.
• Identifies where technology and partnerships can cause a ground-breaking shift in business and works with key business stakeholders to bring it to realization.
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert on sophisticated technical matters.
• Interprets technical issues for non-technical audiences and vice versa – provides leadership to establish and articulate the vision, strategy and direction of solution architecture based upon business and technical requirements.
• Develops and delivers formal and informal technical training, presentations, and white papers to both internal and external audiences.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• A proven track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services using AWS, Azure or GCP.
• In-depth experience using cloud patterns such as multitenancy, sharding priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP.
• Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions such as Document, Column Family and Key-Value.
• Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or Auth2.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions for large systems that are scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available.
• Experienced in communicating with senior leadership and proven communication skills to work across technical and business teams.
• Experienced in working with vendors.
• Awareness of GDPR, DORA and ISO standards.

THE PERSON:

• Possesses robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities to produce a coherent solution architecture that fits with the rest of the ecosystem.
• Has the ability, under pressure, to rapidly troubleshoot underlying issues and to lead teams to arrive at viable solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with conflicting priorities in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to operate across organizational boundaries, to influence vendors and technology staff and to have an impact on the internal and external technology community.
• Strong interpersonal skills supported by expressive oral and written communication.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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