Solutions Architect (Digital)

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Solutions Architect

Permanent

Location: Central London, with occasional travel to Leeds

Salary: up to £99,000 + bonus + generous benefits package (Pension Plan, Private medical insurance, Life assurance, income protection, employee assistance programme, employee discounts, etc.)

Solutions Architect - we are looking to recruit x 2 experienced Solutions Architects, to join one of the UK's fastest growing and established specialist financial services providers. Based in the company office in London, you will play a critical role in the digital transformation programme, leading delivery of product and service developments to support business growth and operational efficiency to support development of margins.

These are brand new roles, available due to team growth and expansion - lots of exciting opportunities for career growth in a friendly and supportive environment which encourages learning and development!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Responsible for the e2e design multi-platform solutions covering card, loans products and future business innovation.

· Influence business aims and objectives through consultancy based on technology domain and delivery practice knowledge (the art of the possible, and technical feasibility).

· Work with enterprise architects, Head of Solutions and other solutions architects as well as across the business to ensure consistency and cohesion in projects.

· Define application and platform design for internal, external and cloud hosted projects.

· Key decision maker across entire project lifecycle.

· Contribute to technical discussions, both externally and internally.

· Run workshops and present to business and executive stakeholders.

· Provide support to a newly established digital development team.

· Supervise application design performed by internal and external providers to ensure goals outlined in solution architecture are realised

· Project delivery troubleshooting and defect resolution.

REQUIRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

· Highly experienced in multi-platform solutions architecture, Digital Solutions, Financial services application security

· Linux / Unix / Windows / Mainframe

· Visio or equivalent

· Data analysis

· Web services (HTTP(S) protocols, XML, JSON)

· Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

· Financial services background

· Encryption and authentication concepts; Codepages and data translation concepts; Batch and online transaction processing

· Networking concepts including DNS

· Ability to communicate well and challenge decisions with senior stakeholders.

· Ability to manage aggressive timelines, workload requirements and intensive demand

· Hardworking and motivated individual with a passion for collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design resulting in a quality product.

If this opportunity sounds of interest, please click "apply" or contact James Spence-Evans at Experis for further information.