Solutions Architect - Financial Markets & Clearing

McGregor Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services business is seeking a Solution Architect to lead a transformation project. The role requires extensive experience in solutions architecture, particularly within financial markets, and strong technical skills in modern architecture and Java programming.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solution architecture experience.
• Experience with EDA technology - Kafka.
• Financial Markets experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Defining options for migration from legacy to new architecture.
• Delivering end-to-end IT solutions that meet requirements.
• Ensuring alignment with enterprise engineering standards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kafka

Java

Oracle

SQL Server

OpenShift

Job description

Global Financial Services Business is at the start of a new transformation and migration project and seeks a Solution Architect. The ideal candidate will have proven solutions architecture skills and experience alongside strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development, covering inception, budgeting, architecture, design, development, testing, live implementation, and post-implementation support.

Technical skills required:

• Experience in implementing Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) and modern architecture (for example, service-oriented architecture, microservices architecture)
• Experience leading the implementation of platform-independent and database-independent applications
• 5+ years of solution architecture experience
• Experience working on Financial Markets Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments

• Analytical and systems architecture/design skills
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, etc.
• Experience with EDA technology - Kafka
• Knowledge of commodity platforms like OpenShift and containerisation skills
• Hands-on Object-Oriented Design and Java programming skills
• Financial Markets experience is essential
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management abilities
• Strong knowledge of Java application programming

Further elements of the role:

• Defining options and providing recommendations for migration from legacy to new event-driven and service-focused architecture, working in collaboration with the Global Enterprise Architecture team
• Delivering a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensuring the IT solution fully aligns with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards
• Maintaining end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams, for example, by organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on any grounds.