Associate Lead Architect

Key Skills: Solution Architect, Docker, Kubernetes

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business, technology and architecture stakeholders
• Own and deliver solutions across a broad spectrum of the project delivery and liaising with many geographically dispersed teams to coordinate solution design
• Contributing to the target architecture definition and delivery, including identification of opportunities for simplification
• Serve as an active participant in architecture groups and forums communicating solution strategy and design in conversation, documentation, and presentations
• Have a strong understanding of technology concepts, roles, and terminology and familiar with coding to work more collaboratively with our engineering colleagues.
• Understanding the business and organizational context of Regulatory Compliance and using this knowledge to reduce risks
• Producing both written and verbal knowledge transfer documentation in preparation for transitioning the solution to BAU ownership

Skills Required:

• A demonstrable track record in senior Solution Architecture roles (preferably in Financial Services)
• Strong design experience with event based architectures and in service based solution patterns utilising APIs, containerisation (Docker) & container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience working in a hybrid environments with on-prem and multiple cloud service providers
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of Data Architecture principles
• Ability to understand, articulate and translate customer journeys into technical design
• Experience in architectural transformation programmes
• Experience in decomposing monolithic solutions and reducing technical debt.
• Strong written and verbal communication (examples of solution design work would be helpful)  
• Strong presentation skills and evidence of collaborative working with senior IT specialists and business stakeholders with varying levels of technical knowledge  
• Ability to work independently and adapting to changing priorities and challenges  
• Problem Solving and critical thinking 

Education :  Bachelor's Degree in related field