Description:
We are looking for an experienced, practicing architect with in-depth experience in Java/JEE technologies, .NET, and Microsoft Technologies, and exposure to JavaScript frameworks, with at least 14-18 years of IT industry experience and sound knowledge in software development and architecture. In addition, the architect should understand new frameworks and platform trends in Cloud Computing, API Management, Microservices, and distributed systems (Incl. Kubernetes, Dockers, and Kafka).
The architect's role is an overarching one and spans various engagements. The candidate should establish a good working relationship with the Customer, define a roadmap/strategy, and drive initiatives and growth.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for multiple technology capabilities to deliver across all business lines for Fortune 50 Banking and Financial Customers.
- Hands-on Experience required to work on POCs, and POTs across multiple technologies
- Ensures various architecture principles are translated into solution architecture and then into engineering products/solutions for implementation
- Ensures non-function requirements such as performance requirements and availability requirements are designed and delivered
- Work with the Customer Enterprise Architecture teams and CXO Teams for critical decisions for strategic investment in Technology.
- Assesses and evaluates emerging technology capabilities for compatibility, scalability, and viability.
- Educate the Customers on the technology trends and guide them in adopting them into their organization.
- Defines a vision that traverses the technology stack from User-Experience / Customer-Experience, data-driven strategic analysis and customer insights, cloud provisioning, and embedding digitally enabled scalable architecture
- Any Cloud Certification
- Ability to challenge the Technology solutions provided by various Vendors and in-house teams to propose an optimal solution
- Optimize the Technology assets by the consolidation of existing applications and remove redundancies and cost saves
- Ability to identify the hotspots in the current application landscape and provide solutions to rectify
- Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional problems and deal comfortably with abstraction/fuzzy issues resulting in a robust, highly-scalable, and well-architected solution.
- Ability to provide design direction on large multi-tiered/complex applications & Participate in RFP/RFQ /Proactive proposals business development activities.
- Help teams deliver robust solutions consistently and guide engineering teams toward a standard methodology/standardization.
- The architect should be able to produce various design documents, such as software architecture documents, security architecture documents, interface specifications, etc.
- Ensures Code Design and its Quality for Application across the portfolio & Participates in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions & drives DevSecOps roll-out.
- Help Customers in their technology roadmap, Digital Journey and share industry views.
Mandatory Domain Experience (One or more of the following areas)
- Cards and Payments
- Retail and wholesale Banking
- Capital Markets
- Investment Banking
- Wealth Management
Experience:14+ Years