
Lead Architect - Market Expansion Solution Architect
- Bournemouth
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
- Builds trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership
- Identify opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
- Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
- Supports the definition of the target state of their product and achievement of the strategy
- Provides creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Supports evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information
- Participates in architecture governance bodies
- Embrace a culture of inclusive decision making with proactive and thoughtful engagement across Technology, Business and Operations
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Working experience in financial services technology or similar industry where technology is at the core
- Technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Hands-on experience designing, delivering, optimizing, and modernizing complex distributed systems low-latency systems, from the backend to the UI
- Ability to understand business requirements and complex systems and provide pragmatic and actionable recommendations, solutions, technical delivery roadmaps, etc. with little to no oversight.
- Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
- Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
- Adept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams
- Effective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audience
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Experience in Treasury Services, Cash Management or Global Transaction Banking would be an advantage
- Experience in risk and risk control compliance
- Experience in networking, security concepts and design and vendor software package evaluations using assessment frameworks
- Experience in complex software package integrations and data migrations
- Experience with public cloud and infrastructure as code
- Experience with Java or JVM oriented languages
- Experience with various data technologies including NoSQL, distributed caching, RDBMS, messaging, and streaming, CockroachDB or similar distributed SQL databases
- Experience building applications making use of Kubernetes native features