I am looking to speak with talented Hands on solution architects within Financial Services. I have a very exciting opportunity in wealth management, 6-month inside contract with rolling renewals. Hybrid working up to £650PD

You must have strong knowledge and experience of financial organisation business and processes, as well as strong technical knowledge to apply to solution designs. You will focus on application design, produce architecture design documents and breakdown development tasks and have the ability to review and translate business requirements (functional and non-functional) into technical requirements and architectural designs.

Key responsibilities:

• Defining roadmaps that outline the implementation or decommissioning of key applications or technologies,
• Focus on application design, produce architecture design documents and breakdown development tasks
• Ability to review and translate business requirements (functional and non-functional) into technical requirements and architectural designs
• Drive development quality (eg, code review, architecture review)
• Manage and maintain requests for comments (RFCs), architectural decision records (ADRs) and risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAIDs)
• Must have strong knowledge and experience of financial organisation (ideally WM) business and processes, as well as strong technical knowledge to apply to solution design.
• Hands-on development essential to keep updated on technology.
• Proposes and designs technology required to solve a given business problem, including framework, platform, tech-stack, features, modules and interactions.
• Provides a vision and technical roadmap for enterprise applications.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to adapt to different audiences accordingly.
• Works with multiple scrum teams to ensure technical integrity and consistency of solutions across full life cycle of solution delivery.
• Provide guidance and technical leadership (including software engineering best practice) to solution architects, developers and other scrum team members.

Your experience and skills

• ability to quickly understand business problems and provide high quality solution options, based on your vast experience.
• deep knowledge and experience of different tech-stacks.
• development knowledge and skills (SQL, Oracle DB, ETL tool (Informatica), Data Warehouse model, Shell Scripts, PostgreSql, Java)
• knowledge of technologies such as [MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, C#, Java, ETL (Informatica), Tableau, PostgreSql]
• leading the solution architecture for large, complex, enterprise-level programs.
• level experience migrating Monolithic Architectures to Cloud & Microservice Architectures, RESTful Web Services, API Gateways, Realtime Transaction Processing.
• communication and interpersonal skills, experience managing senior business and IT stakeholders.
• passion for learning and leveraging new tech when appropriate to the problem space.
• A strong understanding of the SDLC (Software Development LifeCycle) and agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework.