Senior Solutions Architect

Our client a global IT consulting firm is looking to hire a Senior Solutions Architect for one of their operations in the Corporate Banking domain. The desired candidate will be based at their Dubai location & should have strong experience in the corporate banking domain. You will be accountable for architecture & designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements in support of a given portfolio

Your duties & responsibilities will include but not limited to :

Responsibilities Include:

• Represent Technology Strategy & Architecture in programs/initiatives.
  
• Provide technical recommendations and tradeoffs which address business needs and timelines.
  
• Participate in crossfunctional crossdiscipline architecture teams to enhance/set architectural direction for key business initiatives.
  
• Produce conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business financial and technology objectives through documentation of systems architectures and process flows.
  
• Ensure alignment of initiative solutions designs with architecture and technology strategies.
  
• Develop standards patterns and best practices for reuse.
  
• Promote design adherence to bank policies and standards architectural principles and guidelines.
  
• Effectively communicate designs/solutions in multiple forums and to various audiences including technology and business stakeholders
  
• Drive buy vs. build decisions based on reviewing products and capabilities within the enterprise as well as leading industry products and technologies
  
• Sound knowledge and handon experience with designing documenting and implementing RESTful APIs and MicroService Architecture
  
• Experience of PaaS/IaaS; handson experience in any popular cloud service: Azure Amazon AWS Google Cloud
  
• Industry best practices in architectural methodologies and standards (e.g. Zachman TOGAF etc.)
  
• Experience in an Agile environment and coaching others in this approach
  
• Excellent communication / stakeholder skills.
  

Requirements

To be considered for this role:

• At least 12 years of technology experience with 4 years of banking/financial services experience and 2 to 3 years as Solution/Technology architect (Solution design experience)
  
• Experience in the banking domain specifically in Core Banking systems (mandatory)
  
• Broad based IT knowledge and experience (Hardware Financial Software Middleware/Integration Databases)
  
• Handson programming experience with any popular programming languages: Java.NET etc.
  
• Knowledge in various Enterprise integration patterns.
  
• Good understanding of Kafka Platform
  
• Knows Oauth2 and how it works.
  
• Good team working and critical thinking skills.
  
• Competitive Package with Family benefits as per company standard will be provided.
  

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