Senior Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Architect. As a Lead Architect, you will be responsible for rapidly understanding business requirements through regular interactions with the CIB Chief Data Office (CDO), business users and other subject matter experts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translating business requirements into solution designs and functional requirements.
• Building technical and logical designs.
• Communication of functional solutions to the development team plus ongoing support of the developers as needed.
• Working closely with the production support team to ensure all new software is well understood and readily supported.
• Active promotion of solution architecture, best practice techniques, standards and tools.
• Providing recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions.
• Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions.
• Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
• Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Developing proof-of-concept projects to validate your proposed solutions.
• Reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members.
• Managing and defining the detailed end-to-end solution design for products and features in a way that supports the execution of the technology strategy and roadmap, articulating and addressing associated architectural risks, issues and technical debt.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years’ experience of working within a large, complex and geographically dispersed organisation (including matrix management structure and across time zones) as a Solution Architect.
• Ability to think logically and abstract the architectural patterns from the technical solutions.
• Strong leadership and an ability to articulate, present and obtain approval for solutions at the right level for a wide audience (IT and Business).
• Experience with Streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
• Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices.
• Knowledge of database technologies: SQL / NoSQL.
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing & ETL / data integration aspects.
• Operating Systems & Scripting: Linux, Shell Scripting (Bash, AWK), PowerShell.
• Experience with any cloud platform: GCP, Azure, AWS.
• Experience with Big Data platforms: BQ, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks.
• Knowledge of containerization concepts: Docker, Kubernetes (IKP, GKE).
• Experience in designing with good understanding on abstraction techniques.
• Proven analysis skills with the ability to challenge designs / decisions.
• Experience in managing and resolving complex issues using proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to quickly get up to speed with the current data landscape and apply acquired analysis and data skills to new contexts and approaches.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Strong planning, organisation and time management skills with a demonstrated ability to work to deadlines.
• Commercial acumen and ability to apply this to Business and IT data requirements.
• Self-awareness and with the confidence to work independently.