Marc Ellis
Location
UAE | United Kingdom
Job description
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Role: Senior Solution architect
Core Banking
Responsibilities Include:
• Represent Technology Strategy & Architecture in programs/initiatives.
• Provide technical recommendations and trade-offs which address business needs and timelines.
• Participate in cross-functional, cross-discipline architecture teams to enhance/set architectural
direction for key business initiatives.
• Produce conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business, financial, and technology
objectives through documentation of systems, architectures and process flows.
• Ensure alignment of initiative solutions designs with the architecture and technology strategies.
• Develop standards, patterns, and best practices for reuse.
• Promote design adherence to bank policies and standards, architectural principles, and guidelines.
• Effectively communicate designs/solutions in multiple forums and to various audiences including
technology and business stakeholders
• Drive buy vs. build decisions based on reviewing products and capabilities within the enterprise as
well as leading industry products and technologies
Required Skills / Experience:
• At least 12 years of technology experience with 4 years of banking/financial services experience and
2 to 3 years as Solution/Technology architect (Solution design experience)
• Experience in banking domain, specifically in Core Banking systems (mandatory)
• Broad based IT knowledge and experience (Hardware, Financial Software, Middleware/Integration,
Databases)
• Hands-on programming experience with any popular programming languages: Java, .NET, etc.
• Knowledge in various Enterprise integration patterns
• Sound knowledge and hand-on experience with designing, documenting, and implementing RESTful
APIs and MicroService Architecture
• Experience of PaaS/IaaS; hands-on experience in any popular cloud service: Azure, Amazon AWS,
Google Cloud
• Industry best practices in architectural methodologies and standards (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF etc.)
• Experience in an Agile environment and coaching others in this approach
Excellent communication / stakeholder skills
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