Digital Systems Architect – Financial Services - Northampton

Onyx-Conseil; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx-Conseil is seeking a Digital Systems Architect in Northampton to drive digital architecture, roadmaps and technical solutions across the business. You will lead architectural discussions with developers, engineers and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment to strategy and standards.

The role involves creating cost estimates, guiding domain-driven and event-driven patterns, and coordinating with enterprise architects to implement a cohesive digital technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience creating digital technology architecture solutions and cost estimates.
• Ability to articulate architecture direction to developers, engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with domain-driven and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman).

Responsibilities

• Define digital architecture, roadmaps and technical solutions to meet business needs.
• Communicate direction and benefits of digital architecture to stakeholders.
• Maintain technology roadmaps for digital capabilities across the company.
• Ensure engineering teams align to the strategy, architecture and standards.

Skills

Digital architecture

Enterprise Integration Patterns

Object-oriented design

Event-driven architecture

Domain-driven design

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

DevOps

Containerization

Job description

Digital Systems Architect - Financial Services - Northampton

We require a Digital Architect to Support in the definition of digital architecture, roadmaps and technical solutions as well as technical consultancy and leading edge technology thinking as required across.

Clearly articulate / communicate direction and benefits of digital architecture to developers / engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Responsible for creating digital technology architecture solutions and cost estimates, to meet business needs, in line with strategy and architecture.

Work with supply chain (including external) as appropriate.

Working with the relevant enterprise wide architects and digital business aligned strategy leads, supports the creation of an appropriate digital technology strategy for the relevant business area.

Maintain technology roadmaps for digital capabilities across the Company.

Responsible for ensuring the digital engineering / development teams are aligned to the technical strategy, architecture, quality standards and policies.

Work collaboratively with the relevant technology colleagues, project managers, architects, business analysts and developers to ensure that the digital outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original technical solution specified.

Able to challenge stakeholders creatively and professionally to create architectural solutions which meet the business need (including budgetary / time constraints) whilst being aligned to Company architectural blueprint, principles and standards.

Can describe existing / emerging digital technology and technology strategy to developers and non-technical stakeholders both verbally and via appropriate documentation.

Experience of application client and server architecture in the web and/or mobile domain, application frameworks and architecture patterns

Experience of Object-Oriented design and Enterprise Integration Patterns, of presenting technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Specific experience of domain driven and event driven architecture

Nice to have:

• Experience of operating in an Agile delivery environment, microservices and refactoring to microservices
• Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman).
• Experience of DevOps and containerization
• Past and/or current experience of Java / JavaScript software development in an agile development environment

This is a contract assignment between 3 to 6 months initially.

Based in Northampton.