Solutions Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by Insight Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
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London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Solutions Architect involves designing solutions for transformational and operational risk initiatives within the Engineering Division, focusing on the Index Platform estate. The candidate will specialize in web applications, middleware/API layers, and AWS, providing technical expertise and overseeing end-to-end IT project delivery. Responsibilities include producing high-quality solution designs, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring others in best practices. A strong background in enterprise-level web applications and cloud solutions is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce and promote high quality solution designs and application architectures aligned with the Group's architecture principles and strategy.
- Work with business and technology stakeholders to produce current state/target state, drive transition plans and roadmap creation.
- Specialize in designing enterprise-level web applications on multiple technology stacks - Angular, Java/C#.net, Python.
- Demonstrate strong experience on AWS Stack, SQL/No-SQL implementations.
- Champion policies, procedures, and best practice design principles.
- Analyze business requirements to identify flexible and pragmatic design changes to development and production architecture.
- Act as a technical consultant providing technical knowledge, coaching/mentoring, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
- Participate in vendor selection exercises and gap analysis activities, influencing their roadmaps to support strategic objectives.
- Understand the balance between business drivers and purity of design.
- Facilitate and develop PoCs to demonstrate new concepts or technology choices.
- Work closely with group functions such as infrastructure and information security, building relationships and becoming a trusted point of contact.
- Prior experience of BPM Implementation is advantageous.
Key Skills:
- Degree qualified in a science or IT based discipline.
- Proven technical architecture experience covering common design patterns and platforms such as UIs, micro-services, data lakes, APIs, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases.
- Strong familiarity with formal design and SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile/SAFe.
- Significant experience designing solutions in distributed highly resilient environments (Microservices Architecture/EDD-Event Driven Architecture/SOA/DDD-Domain Driven Design).
- Significant experience integrating enterprise application solutions.
- Significant understanding of information security concerns and best practices.
- Cloud solution design and architecture experience, ideally on AWS.
- Experience handling design dependencies in a highly complicated matrix structured organization.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
The ideal candidate will work as a Senior Solutions Architect in Engineering Divison, the individual will be responsible for designing solutions for varied trasnformational and operational risk iniatives across all the Index Platform estate. The candidate will hold specialization in designing web applications, middleware/API layer and AWS. The selected candidate is required to provide technical expertise, perform PoCs, take ownership, and responsibilities in end-to-end IT project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Produce and promote high quality solution designs and application architectures that are aligned with the Group's architecture principles and strategy
- Work with business and technology stakeholders to produce current state / target state, drive transition plans and roadmap creation
- One needs to have Specialisation on designing enterprise level web applications on multiple technology stacks - Angular, Java/C#.net, Python
- Strong experience on AWS Stack, SQL/No-SQL implementations
- Champion policies, procedures, and best practice design principles
- Analysis of business requirements to identify flexible and pragmatic design changes to development and production architecture
- Act as a technical consultant providing technical knowledge, coaching/mentoring, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and best practices
- Participate in vendor selection exercises and gap analysis activities, and where required work with them to understand influence their roadmaps to support strategic objectives
- Understand the balance between business drivers and purity of design
- Where required facilitate and develop Pocks to demonstrate new concepts or technology choices
- Work closely with group functions such as infrastructure, information security building relationships and becoming a trusted point of contact
- Prior experience of BPM Implementation is hugely advantageous
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a science or IT based discipline
- Proven technical architecture experience covering common design patterns and platforms such as UIs, micro-services, data lakes, APIs, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases
- Strong familiarity of formal design and SDLC methodologies, in particular Agile/SAFe
- Significant experience of designing solutions in distributed highly resilient environments (Microservices Architecture/EDD-Event Driven Architecture/SOA/DDD-Doman Driven Design)
- Significant experience of integrating enterprise application solutions
- Significant understanding of information security concerns and best practices
- Cloud solution design and architecture – both native and IaaS ideally on AWS
- Experience in handling design dependencies on a highly complicated matrix structured organization