We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who required a AWS Solution Architect - Knutsford Location - 2-3 days working onsite, the balance of time will be remote for one of their public sector Clients based in the UK.

• IR35: This role is inside of IR35
• Initial duration: 6 months

Role and tasks

AWS Solution Architect

*Excellent knowledge of AWS, Security principles for enterprise level application, Access and authentication patterns, good knowledge of cryptography. Docker, container and 2 tier architecture.*

Solution Architect JD
1) Analysis of problem statement, Own the technical solution, provide an end to end assurance that satisfies business needs and ensuring that any developments align to the overall Banks strategy.
2) Analyse applications and underline systems to understand the data flow and business logic.
3) Define architectural software solutions for a portfolio of projects in alignment with architectural standards of client organization
4) Proven background liaising with senior stakeholders to influence their thinking. Stakeholder management at various forums like Domain/project meeting, EA forums where various architects interact and challenge your design (Must)
5) Provide architecture and technology leadership to delivery teams. Be the technology expert to whom that business area trusts to realise their aspirations as to how they can best drive their business forward in helping our customers
6) Risk management and design associated security/controls. (Must)
7) Technical Debt management
8) Experienced in migrating application from Monolithic architecture to domain driven Microservices architecture (must)
9) Low level design knowledge
10) Microservices, SOA, Java Design patterns, EDA, CQRS
11) Hands on experience in any of tools like EA, StarUML, Drawio, JIRA, etc.
12) Understanding of Network diagrams (Good to have)
13) TOGAF or any other Enterprise architect certification (Good to have)
14) AWS Experience (Must have)
15) Process automation (Good to have)
16) Web Services using protocols like Rest API's Standards(must), SOAP, RabbitMQ
17) Good understanding of Object-Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
18) Good understanding of Kafka, Camel, IBM Integration bus (IIB), API management tools (APIGEE, Kong, etc.), Data Power, T24, TSYS, MongoDB
19) Good Understanding of IDAM, OLTP, OLAP.
20) Understanding of SSO concepts
21) Experience with multi-tier (App/Web/DB) server architecture
22) Experience in Financial domain is a must

MUST HAVE Skills: AWS, Domain and Event driven architect, Stakeholder management (very important), Risk Management, fraud and security standards, Application Enterprise Architecture standards
Technology knowledge: Java J2EE, API/Integrations standards, Kafka, Mongodb, IIB, oracle, T24,TSYS, Kong, APIGEE, Visio/Drawio, security principles
Banking domain knowledge

GOOD TO HAVE skills: AWS, Network & infrastructure, DevOps, IAM, Spring boot, Spring Integration and Camel, JIRA, Confluence, Azure

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.