Solutions Architect

Role Responsibility

Responsibilities

• Provide consultancy and support in gathering business and technical requirements either in conjunction with business analysis or direct from end users and clients.

• Translate business/technical requirements into technical documentation ensuring that stakeholders and development teams have a clear and common understanding of the needs and proposed solutions.

• Provide technical consultancy contributing to team standards and ‘best practise’ techniques for cost effective and time dependent software delivery.

• Design and specify changes that comply with the application architecture, standards and conventions.

• Work with Waterfall, Lean and Agile development methodologies.

• Under limited supervision perform analysis to enable modelling and documentation of existing processes and document options to improve application performance.

• Lead internal walk-through of Technical Design documents to ensure understanding of requirements.

• Lead peer-to-peer Technical Design Document reviews.

• Attend forums to provide development estimations based on a set of requirements

• Produce High Level Estimates for internal and client requested enhancements within SLA.

• Coaching and mentoring of other team members from a technical and business perspective when required.

• Liaise with project managers, release management and client relationship managers when handling release assignments, estimates and any adhoc work.

• Conduct BA/SA reviews and support the unit and system-testing cycles to ensure technical delivery meets requirements.

• Provide regular status reports and participate in group analysis sessions and team meetings.

• Participation and contribution in internal and external design sessions/workshops, be able to present technical overviews of the main record keeping systems architecture and data model.

• Ability and confidence to communicate independently with other technical departments, programme management, business units and external clients.

• Contribute to system design and technical design document standards and quality procedures.

• Participate and contribute to strategy for future developments based on review of existing system design and construction strategy.

• Imparts business knowledge of record keeping and surround systems to technical and non-technical audience.

• Adhere to SS&C Secure development and information security policies

• Assist in specification of overall change deployment, to ensure completeness of solution delivery within the SS&C Release Process.

• Participate in IT Support activities providing analytical support as required.

• To comply with the regulatory regimes in which SS&C operates, with particular consideration given to relevant Client Asset, Data Protection and Financial Crime Prevention regulations.

• To be quality driven, aiming for 100% accuracy and timeliness of delivery.

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Essential:

• A minimum of 4+ year’s systems design in large scale complex applications.

• A minimum of 4+ years’ experience in the Financial Services industry.

• Proficient in relational database design and modelling.

• Proficient in SQL (DB2, SQL server, PostgreSQL).

• Proven track record in problem solving.

• Possess excellent analytical and technical skills.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to multi-task and a ‘can do/will do’ attitude.

• Flexible attitude to working hours.

• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.

• Strong communication skills to all levels of management.

• Micro-Services design concepts

• Cloud computing (e.g. Amazon Web or Microsoft Azure)

Desirable:

• Experience of traditional and modern programming languages e.g. Cobol and Java

• Experience of financial record keeping systems (main/sub-register)

• Experience of Confluence and Jira

• Experience in working with formal methodologies.

• Java, Python (plus application frameworks such as springboot)

• PostgreSQL, SQL-Sever or other similar RDB

• Event Sourcing (architectural pattern e.g. Kafka)

• Pentaho or other ETL

• Swift messaging

• Security concepts (such as SIAM and openID connect)

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