Solution Architect – Banking – AWS

Solution Architect – Banking – AWS

We are supporting a global organisation.

The contract is initially until 31.12.2024 with a view to extend.

Max Daily Rate- £468.26 Inside IR35

Location – either London, Northampton, or Knutsford – Hybrid 2 days per week in the office

Role Details:
-We are seeking a talented and motivated Solution Architect to join our Cards NGCB platform team. –You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for providing advanced technical support. You will be responsible for the delivery of the development, project leadership, quality, and timely delivery of the project.
-Manage scope of projects from inception to closure. Define, develop and manage implementation schedules and project budgets.
-Identify key business objectives and provide solution recommendations while performing business proves and management consulting analysis.
-Coordinate resources, prepare project teams for kick-off and ensure effective completion of project milestones, control project scope and mitigate risks.
-Ensure project team are delivering to configuration, development, and methodology standards.
-Develop the release strategy and implement.
-Ensure delivery processes are efficient and cost effective.
-Have a deep understanding of AWS technology stack to drive end to end architecture and engineer -the solutions with the development team keeping delivery timelines in mind

What We’re Looking For
-Good technical experience in Java, Backend & Cloud( preferable AWS) architecture.
-Extensive hands on and provide technical direction to development teams
-Strong understanding of SDLC and Architecture.
-Extensive background in development and delivering complex projects throughout the lifecycle.
-Project planning and progress monitoring, including budget control and milestone control.
-Creative problem solver, able to build contingency plans and handle stressful situations with professionalism.
-Provide leadership and direction to the Delivery teams. Handle Operational issues related to the delivery center.
-Become the Single point of contact for delivery and act as a liaison between the Service Delivery and the Customer.
-Drive and coordinate crisis management.
-Strong negotiation and presentation skills.
-Understanding of Agile methodologies.
-Strong exposure to containerisation, docker and CI/CD models like Jenkins pipelines
-Strong in defining and maintaining APIs with Restful standards and relevant design patterns of – driving microservices based development
-Have basic working knowledge on public cloud platform, preferable AWS

Skills that will help you in the role:

-Have deep knowledge on AWS technical stack- Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, API gateway ,monitoring solutions like Cloud Watch and Xray
-Have deep knowledge on event driven systems using frameworks like Active MQ, Kafka, AWS Kinesis
-Have a working experience of AWS data pipelines, Glue, S3 and Glacier storage, file transfer -solutions like Data Sync AWS, SQL, Python, Java