Job Description
Full stack Solution Architect with total of 10+ years experience will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and designing digital products solution and services to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology.
As Solution Architect, you will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Engineers to co-develop the digital products.
Key Accountailities
- Responsible for creating HLD and LLD for mobile application platform including backend and integrated services.
- Work closely with Head of Cross Business Unit as well as different IT teams to drive secure architecture design both high level and low level (HLD/LLD) and technology decisions.
- Ownership and fully accountable about solution design and translating business requirements to technical requirements.
- Introduce and maintain best practice and technologies to ensure the product stays on the leading edge of technology.
- Utilize a mix of open Source and commercial technologies to create the foundation for rapid and cost-effective implementation of systems that maximize value from day one in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures and in alignment with different teams within the bank.
- Lead multiple development teams while delivering best in class enterprise grade software solutions across a breadth of different platform and technologies.
- Collaborate and facilitate integration with other teams and products within the bank including risk , security and compliance.
- Manage and mentor agile teams through motivation, engagement and leading.
- Foster a digital culture of knowledge sharing, job pride and collaboration
- Develop the team's capability by suggesting improvements and providing honest and instant feedback
- Define and update the skillset and responsibilities required for each of the roles in the team
- Contribute to the recruitment process, technical interviews, RFP and ARB bank process.
- Advice the business on the implications of utilizing particular technologies including the advantages and disadvantages
Technical Advocacy
- Lead the technical solution within the technical team through knowledge sharing sessions and Geek-Talks.
- Be a technology thought leader within the digital team and the bank, suggesting and advocating new technologies to deliver business benefit.
Qualifications
Minimum Experience
- Solution Architect should be coming from development background and role with minimum of 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle holding roles such as Senior Developer.
- Minimum of 5+ years experience as Solution Architect in digital platform specially microservices architecture
- Minimum 5+ years of product development using Agile SCRUM methodology
- Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks, such as Java Node.JS,
- Strong knowledge and experience of the following technologies: SOA, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Oracle, MySQL, REST APIs and AWS EC2, S3, Cloud direct connect, could front, could direct connect, VPCs, AZ, firewalls/ security groups, IAM, SQL and Non-SQL DB.
- Infrastructure knowledge including Single Sign On, LDAP, LAMP, Search & Authentication Technologies
- Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, Dev-Ops, building highly scalable applications, application security.
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Being a participant in technical communities such as external/internal meetups e.g., speak at conferences, author books and blog posts is an advantage
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Masters preferred
- Architecture certification (architecture certification from any of AWS, Microsoft, Google, etc.) preferred
