Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Location: London
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Responsibilities:
A strong technical and solution architecture background built upon software engineering experiences
A track record of owning and delivering solutions across a broad spectrum of the project delivery lifecycle in involving mixed shore resources
The ability to communicate efficiently upwards (to business), downwards (to IT teams) and laterally (to peers, vendors, and client side staff)
Familiarity with technology concepts, roles, and terminology, and the ability to work closely with application architects and modellers
Familiarity with API design and an awareness of microservice architectures
The ability to serve as an active participant in architecture groups and forums communicating solution strategy and design in conversation, documentation and presentations
In addition to the above, the following background experience would be highly beneficial:
Consultancy / customer facing experiences within a software vendor or enterprise scale services environment
Financial Services domain knowledge with practical experience of mobilising technology to meet the market dynamics effecting the financial services domain (Risk / Cost / Customer)
A track record of successful refactoring / tech-debt remediation projects
Proficiency in interrogating codebases to ascertain behaviour, particularly with Java and Spring Boot
Required Skills:
Experience in digital and broader architectural transformation, applying solutions from experience in decomposing monolithic solutions and methods to manage technical debt.
Ability to understand, articulate and translate customer journeys into technical design, leveraging API and micro-service architecture techniques.
Experience, knowledge and understanding of enterprise level software development and API based integration e.g. Mulesoft, Kong
Participate in technical design and oversee all technology related issues of cloud native product development, building a micro-services based architecture, promoting
API reuse and managing down technical debt across the enterprise.
Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding