Solution Architect - Financial Services/Capital Markets Technology

Solution Architect for Financial Services/ Capital Markets technology.

- This Solution Architect will work with our clients and Internal teams to design and develop technology solutions that address the business needs of our clients. (S)he will validate business requirements and will play a key role in the definition of system requirements for the realization of the technology architecture for enterprise level solutions.

- The role will provide overall technology leadership to the project delivery team to estimate, design, build and roll-out the solutions to production, while ensuring that appropriate engineering processes, practices and tools are leveraged for the timely realization of the quality solution. In the process, the role will partner with technology infrastructure teams and third party providers to ensure that the hosting infrastructure (on-premise or cloud) is suitably designed and implemented.

Skills/ Experience:

- 14+ years of experience in a technology leadership role, with a leading IT services or a technology consulting organisation, which specialized focus on the financial services domain. This includes 4+ years of experience as a technology or solutions architect

- Highly proficient in systems and non-functional requirements definition

- Experienced in technology stack selection and the definition of solution, technology and integration architectures for small to mid-sized applications and cloud hosted platforms

- Strong understanding of various design and architecture patterns

- Strong hands-on experience of designing and developing technology frameworks and micro-services, APIs, REST web services, leveraging the Java and open source technology stack (i.e. Java, Javascript, Node.js/ Angular.js/ React.js, Spring Bot, Non-blocking Java, etc)

- Strong design, development and performance tuning skills on atleast two or more databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, NOSQL and NewSQL (e.g. PostgresQL, Cassandra, Mongo DB, Cosmos DB, MySQL etc.).

- Strong business domain understanding in financial services, preferably capital markets i.e. fixed income trading, wealth management and risk

- Experience of implementing and governing software engineering processes, practices, tools and standards for development teams

- Experience of setting up and operating the DevOps and automation infrastructure for continuous integration and delivery

- Full SDLC experience leveraging Agile, TDD and BDD for building and rolling out highly transactional and highly available platforms hosted on-premise and on the cloud

- Proficient in effort estimation techniques; will actively support project managers and scrum masters on planning the implementation and will work with test leads on the definition of an appropriate test strategy for the realization of a quality solution

- Must be - hands on- on technology and able to troubleshoot critical issues in design or code

- Strong leadership, business communication and consulting skills

- Must have led mid-large sized, geographically distributed teams with 30+ people

- Prior experience of working in client facing leadership roles in geographies like US, Canada or UK

- Extensive pre-sales experience as a technology/ engineering subject matter expert i.e. high level solution definition, sizing and RFI/RFP responses

- Aware of latest technology trends, engineering processes, practices and metrics

- Must be a thought leader in one or more areas of technology

- Nice to Have- Skills and Experience:

- Experience on 12-factor applications and event driven architectures

- Architecture experience with PAAS and SAAS platforms hosted on Azure or AWS

- Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)

- Data modelling and design experience

- Infrastructure sizing and design experience for on-premise and cloud hosted platforms

Education:

- Bachelor's / Master's degree in a Software discipline. TOGAF certification is preferred.