Solution Architect/Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivering Engineering Designs and Solution Architecture to meet business requirements, from logical architecture through to physical infrastructure architecture.
• Participating in Architectural Governance processes to ensure that proposed solution designs are strategically aligned to the architecture roadmaps and the Groups Future State Architecture
• Ensuring that deployed system solutions, both vendors supplied, and in-house developments are appropriately hosted (Internally, Externally, Cloud, PaaS, SaaS) including the corresponding governance and relevant approval processes.
• In-depth technical, functional, and non-functional knowledge of:
  - Networking
  - IoT / Edge technologies
  - Protective Security technologies and solutions (EACS, SVS, Biometrics, Video analytics)
  - Server infrastructure and virtualization
  - Cloud infrastructure (particularly Azure)
  - Middleware
  - Databases
• Excellent understanding of the concept of Enterprise Architecture and its relationship to business strategy and target operating models, and how to relate this to an architecture roadmap and a solid understanding of general architectural concepts, principles, governance, and best practices.
• Experience of working with enterprise or global systems and solutions, including Externally Hosted and Cloud based solutions; PaaS, SaaS and the associated governance processes; EHC, ITSA, etc.
• Experience of technologies: AWS, Google GCP, Azure, MuleSoft
• Experience in other architecture disciplines such as data or business architecture.
• Good understanding of the Financial Services industry and building security technology.
• Demonstrable experience as a Specialist Engineer or Lead Architect