Solution Architect

Job Description
As a Hands-on Solution Architect in Banking & Capital Markets area, you will participate in various streams of banking platforms projects, collaborate with team members to achieve project goals and be a part of Business Transformation.
Your key responsibilities:

• Partner with product owners and other functional leaders to understand client's business needs and build a technology roadmap to support the product roadmap
• Work with architecture governance teams and understand the architecture standards applicable for technical solutions
• Build product architecture and present it to stakeholders like senior technical Client Directors, Architecture board, and get it approved
• Contribute towards design and development of the platforms
• Plan and monitor the project deliverables
• Mentor the project team to achieve project goals.

Skills and attributes for success

• Excellent business communication.
• 10+ years of experience in development and designing of software architecture.
• Experience in Java, J2EE, REST, Database development.
• Experience with designing microservices in large scale.
• Experience in another programming language is a plus.
• Maintain and improve code quality using static & dynamic code analyses, security vulnerability scans, code coverage and CI/CD pipeline gating
• Hands-on experience in one of the market leading integration platform and message brokers (Kafka etc.) (good to have-e.g. Tibco, WebMethods, IBM AppConnect, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, )
• Experience with designing and implementing cloud native solutions (GCP or Azure).
• Experience in agile / scrum approach.
• Ability to facilitate design discussions and clearly communicate architectural decisions.
• Ability to communicate technical matters clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, win supporters and spur people to action.
• Experience in creating reliable solution plans in a cooperation with business and multi-disciplinary teams: costs estimation, delivery approaches.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking through a proven ability to research client inquiries and emerging issues related to regulations, industry practice and new application technologies.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Science, other Technical qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in the system and/or solution design area.
• Very good communication skills.
• Client management experience (Technical Stakeholder management).