Global Analytics - Chief Architect

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Analytics Holdings is an analytics-driven fintech company with an intense focus on serving the under banked consumer and assisting businesses reach the underbanked consumer. We use world class analytics, software, and a deep understanding of data to provide a range of financial services products to under banked consumers that do not have adequate access to credit and banking services. Our primary market is currently the UK and our development and production facilities are in Chennai, India.

POSITION FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

At Global Analytics, our positions are clustered around four major job dimensions. We expect each job to problem solve through influencing people and adapting their approaches to drive success at workplace. Each job family has a well-defined career path that spans across our organization grades from Grade 1 to Grade 9. Our position framework is a result of deep research and benchmarking of the Industry practices.

Organization Grade: 7

Position Title: Chief Architect

Department: Engineering

Reporting Relationships: VP of Engineering/ GM India operations

Cross Functional Relationships: IT, Product Management, UX, Marketing, Analytics and Operations

Location: Chennai

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief Architect is an exciting technical leadership position that is responsible for providing vision, developing technical strategies, architecture and supporting the development of solutions across all Global Analytics product portfolios. This position is to help engineering and product teams to architect and deliver high-quality, innovative, scalable, high performing customer focused applications and services. This position entails successfully working with a cross-functional team including business stakeholders and product management.

CRITICAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

- Lead the architectural activities for multiple product and platform teams to create, maintain, and enhance diverse software systems supporting online financial services portfolios.

- Serve as key member of senior staff providing technical and managerial input to the leadership group.

- Actively develop and maintain the technology roadmap to support the product roadmap.

- Manage technical debt actively through design and technology adoption as required by the roadmap.

- Design solutions within the context of the available infrastructure, taking into account scalability, availability, reliability, stability, security and performance.

- Research, review, analyse and recommend technical frameworks, standards, architectures and governance for existing and new processes that solves business cases and develop implementation plans.

- Direct and mentor architects and technical leads and perform hands-on support as necessary to ensure success of the deliverables.

COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Skills and Experience

- Bachelor- s/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical degree.

- 10+ years of work experience with 6+ years hands-on experience in architecting, designing, developing and implementing complex systems and technical architectures.

- Strong command of architectural patterns, reusable frameworks, best practices and standards related to application development, network design, database design, security and testing.

- Deep experience programming with one or more languages such as C, C++, JAVA, Python, Perl.

- Data design and scaling experience with one or more databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSql.

- Broad and deep technology experience to include web and cloud services, RESTful APIs, microservices.

- Experience in implementing solutions for traditional, virtualized environments, and for use in AWS.

- Experience with BigData management tools like HBase, Spark, Cassandra, ZooKeeper is a plus.

- Experience in developing systems in Fin-Tech domain and supporting multiple tenancy is a plus.

Competencies

- Execution: Ability to identify critical paths and drive the plans to support one or more complex product and platform deliverables with a commitment to quality and time.

- Management: A true - roll up the sleeves and get it done- working approach; demonstrated success as a problem solver, operating as a result-oriented, self-starter.

- Communication: Superior communication skills with the ability to present technical topics to non-technical audiences and build partnerships with business area leaders and external solution providers.

- Leadership: Ability to maintain high morale, both within the architecture group, and externally as well by inspiring trust and sense of achievement. Shape opinions and build confidence in the teams while facilitating new tool and technology evaluations and introducing new processes and practices.

- Judgement: Be able to manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture and make sound decisions with limited and incomplete data.