Senior Solution Architect

Backbase Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the development team. In this role, you will translate customer requirements into technical designs, ensuring solutions meet high standards of security and performance. You will also create documentation, guide the team, and travel for client engagements. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in web architectures, CI/CD practices, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks.
• Demonstrable understanding of SOA and Micro-Services Architecture.
• Broad knowledge of application servers and databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development team and provide guidance during implementation.
• Create technical architecture documentation and define test strategy.
• Travel on-site for training and workshops.

Skills

Communication

Presentation

Self-sufficiency

Tools

Docker

VMWare

HyperV

Job description

As a Solution Architect, it’s your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, you are equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations. Having earned your stripes in designing web-based architectures, you have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.

To the development team, you are the vital mainstay during processes of implementation. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen feel for their needs. So besides being a great technician, you are also a considerate companion who delivers remarkable results on a continuous basis.

What you'll do

You will be part of the development team in which you will fulfill a leading role only gained by excellent performance. Talking highly specific technical details as well as discussing general business outcomes, you comfortably translate customer requirements into a distinguished design. You dedicate yourself to security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability and serviceability.

You know our projects are to be delivered according to briefing, time and budget, but you also know our technicians need their space to build the solutions you’ve defined. By creating structure and clear explanations, you provide guidance and oversight to your team.

Also part of the job is creating technical architecture documentation; working with the QA lead to define the test strategy; leading DevOps to define and implement CI / CD pipelines; ensuring that implementations meet non-functional requirements, and you will be traveling a significant amount of the time, spending time on-site during the inception phase and when providing training and workshops.

Who you are

• You have professionally worked with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks;
• When we ask you about architectural frameworks, you easily dig up your knowledge and best practices;
• You have experience with CI / CD practices and platforms
• You have a demonstrable understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), as well as Micro-Services Architecture;
• Your knowledge of the Java platform exceeds our expectations;
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills in English;
• You are self sufficient as a Solutions Architect and able to manage clients / stakeholders;
• And let’s not forget your broad, operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment.

We will be extra happy if you :

• You have created solutions for financial services (especially banking);
• You have experience with scalable Web application development as well as Mobile App delivery
• You are familiar with architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, event sourcing;
• You have experience with server virtualization and containers technology such as Docker, VMWare, HyperV;
• You have professionally used Integration Platforms, API Gateway, etc.

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