Senior Solution Architect

The Job in short

• As a Senior Solution Architect , its your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, you are equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations.
• Having earned your stripes in designing web-based architectures, you have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.
• To the development team, you are the vital mainstay during processes of implementation. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen feel for their needs. So besides being a great technician, you are also a considerate companion who delivers remarkable results on a continuous basis.

Meet the job

• You will be part of the development team in which you will fulfill a leading role only gained by excellent performance. Talking highly specific technical details as well as discussing general business outcomes, you comfortably translate customer requirements into a distinguished design. You dedicate yourself to security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability and serviceability.
• You know our projects are to be delivered according to briefing, time and budget, but you also know our technicians need their space to build the solutions youve defined.
• By creating structure and clear explanations, you provide guidance and oversight to your team.
• Also part of the job is creating technical architecture documentation; working with the QA lead to define the test strategy; leading DevOps to define and implement CI/CD pipelines; ensuring that implementations meet non-functional requirements, and you will be traveling a significant amount of the time, spending time on-site during the inception phase and when providing training and workshops.

How about you

Your knowledge of the Java platform exceeds our expectations;

You have experience with Spring, Maven and Jenkins;

You have a demonstrable understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), as well as Micro-Services Architecture;

You know JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns and principles of REST APIs, ideally including RAML and/or OpenAPI, are second nature to you;

When we ask you about architectural frameworks, you easily dig up your knowledge and best practices;

You have professionally worked with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks;

And lets not forget your broad, operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment;

Last but not least, you have excellent communication and presentation skills in English.

We will be extra happy if you:

You have created solutions for financial services (especially banking);

You have experience with Portal/Web Content Management;

You are familiar with architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, event sourcing;