Job Description

Senior Architect
Permanent
Competitive
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.
PCD300008

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
A proven track record of delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
Extensive experience selecting and implementing Cloud services using public cloud platform or public cloud platform.
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.

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.

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.