Application Architect

Job Description - Application Architect (250000QM)

Responsibilities

• Possess good understanding of architecture strategy and roadmap and able to align design towards them interpedently.
• Able to produce design blueprints for a complete application as well as end-to-end design covering multiple interconnected systems and processes.
• Update or produce new architecture frameworks and guiding principles for review. Possess good understanding of why, when and how to apply them.
• Possess in-depth understanding of more than one functional domain and the processes around it. Able to quickly pick up new domain knowledge (e.g., payments, core banking, wealth, trade, treasury, etc.).
• Provide detailed design (sequence diagrams, domain-driven, bounded context, granularity of microservices).
• Escalate design and implementation challenges to Architecture and Engineering forum for resolution.
• Work hands-on with the development team.
• Provide regular support/guidance on complex coding, issue resolution, and implementation/execution.
• Be part of a learning culture organization, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.

Qualifications

• Preferably 7 years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture, and architectural frameworks in Java/J2EE technologies.
• Preferably 3 years of experience in Microservices architecture, Messaging (Kafka, MQ), and Database technologies (PostgresDB, MongoDB, OracleDB, MSSQL, etc.).
• Possess experience or strong knowledge in Cloud and infrastructure setup.
• Exceptional communication skills and demonstrable abilities to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Must be a team player that is able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus. Must be highly reliable, trustworthy, honest, and commitment-oriented.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
• Good experience or strong in thought leadership, proactive and resourceful.
• Experience and knowledge of wealth, trade, or treasury type of application systems will be advantageous.