Software Systems Architect - Cardiff - Contract


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25th June 2018

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Cardiff

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Software Systems Architect - Cardiff - Contract

We are seeking an experienced, energetic and talented Software Systems Architect to be responsible for the software design of an existing system solution with special attention to the components design and their integration as well as the integration with third party systems.

Rate: £500 per day

Location: Cardiff

Start: ASAP

Length: 6 months initially, could transfer to Perm

Role:

* Encourage & Steer Software Design & Technical Architecture.

* Taking a technical architectural stance. Looking at the architecture from a technical point of view - Where is the business with its technical architecture? How does the current architecture look? How can we evolve this?

* Technical ability not leadership - Listening, Advising & Opening up conversation "We should do it this way".

* Analysing how the business will receive messages, handle messages and transfer these messages into the company database. Then extracting the information into graphs etc.

* Review database/s.

* Use case designs and produce full architectural designs.

* Making archiving efficient.

* Work closely with the development team leading, assisting and driving them to get the best design solution within an Agile environment. Recommend design patterns and good practices, taking responsibility for final decisions.

* Be responsible for important system features such as distribution, scalability,

* maintainability, redundancy, back-up, disaster recovery, fault tolerance and security creating the relevant user stories.

Profile/Skills (not all essential):

* +5 years of recent experience leading the design and implementation of complex software systems using microservices.

* Solid knowledge and experience designing and implementing high performance, distributed, scalable, maintainable, fault tolerance and secure software systems.

* Experience designing and implementing the integration of software systems with third party equipment/systems ideally including marine surveillance radar, visual monitoring systems, voice radio communications systems and satellite communications.

* Background as a Senior Developer (Java, C#, C++ etc)

* Candidates will not be designing from scratch, although there may be design work available. However candidates who have the ability to design from scratch, will be stand out against the crowd.

* Broader skillsets will also stand out against the crowd, i.e. experience in; Messaging Broker Tools (Kafka, Zookeeper), Real-time Databases (Spark, noSQL & MongoDB, Postgres SQL).

* Interface experience - Java, Delphi & OpenGI.

If you feel you would be suitable for this role, please send me your updated CV and/or call me on 0117 9103355.

To find out more about Computer Futures please visit www.computerfutures.com

Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

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