Senior Associate Director, Solution Architecture

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Associate Director, Solution Architecture.

In this role, you will:

• Work with Senior Business and IT Stakeholders to evaluate various technical products and solution options, demonstrating excellent stakeholder management.
• Partner with Architects within and outside the team to define interim and target state solutions in alignment with strategic architecture for the department.
• Guide developers in implementing best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry-standard development patterns and methodologies.
• Guide Product Owners and Engineers in implementing strategically aligned data solutions based on agreed data architecture, modelling, and adopting industry-standard and bank-wide data patterns and methodologies.
• Guide the team on the adoption of Design patterns, Best Practices, and Guidelines.
• Participate in Production Support and Production Incident Management on a need basis.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Strong Knowledge of Application-level Security and Infrastructure design Patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of Application Containerisation design.
• Excellent knowledge of front-end and back-end technology. ReactJS and Java server-side development experience is essential.
• Excellent knowledge of microservice architecture and ability to write and document REST APIs.
• Good Knowledge of database schema design. Experience of SQL and relational databases, preferably PostGreSQL is essential.
• Excellent Knowledge on Architecture Documentation and usage of tooling like Visual Paradigm, Bizz Design.
• Strong knowledge of at least Google or AWS Cloud and Security Architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Integration Patterns and Data Modelling Concepts.
• Must be able to debug existing code, extend functionality, and/or fix issues if any.

The successful candidate will also meet the following requirements:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A flexible approach to delivery responsibility.
• Exposure to Machine Learning and AI concepts.
• Exposure to Network and Infrastructure Security.