Role requirement
Vacancy type
Permanent
Sector
Technology / Fintech and IT
Specialisim
Solutions Architect
Location
Edinburgh
Language skills
English
Job reference No.
14756
Salary
Competitive
Data Published
13/06/2022
Closing date
11/07/2022
Job Description:
A leading asset manager is seeking an experienced Digital Architect to join their exciting team aligned to fin tech to support digital advice, pension and investment solutions. With extensive experience in designing application architectures, development using REST/SOAP, ReactJS, Angular or similar for websites and APIs, you will be working with senior level stakeholders to provide solutions and thrive in a fast paced, global environment.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Extensive experience designing application architectures
- Extensive hands-on development experience using Java, Python, Go, REST/SOAP, NodeJS, GraphQL, ReactJS, Angular, React Native, Swift, Kotlin or other relevant technologies
- Proven experience with AWS solutions and infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, containerization, real-time/batch integration mechanisms/protocols
- Excellent knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS.
- Good understand of Agile methodologies
- Experience working in team-oriented, collaborative environment and with teams spread across multiple locations across multiple time zones.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience in the digital wealth/advice market
Core Responsibilities:
- Drive application architecture, technical trade-offs, and best practices across multiple technology products on both web and mobile. (e.g. maintainability, scalability, performance, resiliency and adaptability)
- Drive application solutioning for deployment and integrations with clients and partners, in collaboration with client delivery teams.
- Provide hands on technical guidance on R&D and Proof of Concept (POC) projects/applications.
- Drive code review sessions and hands-on coding when needed.
- Translate business requirements into system level design and detailed technical architecture documents.
- Work closely with the Technology Product Owner and Domain Architect, and partner with business stakeholders, engineering team and enterprise technology teams across the company to drive the architecture of Wealth Management solutions.
- Establish strong cross-functional partnerships including with product, client deployments, cloud, data, security and compliance teams
- Maintain a strong understanding of industry standards, to identify opportunities and drive continuous improvement activities.
Benefits:
- A highly competitive salary
- Wider Benefits package
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 14756
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Louise is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Core-Asset Consulting, and has been a pivotal member of the Senior Leadership Team since its inception in 2005. With over two decades of experience in recruitment, she initially specialised in asset management before expanding her expertise to include FinTech, Platforms, and Pensions in response to evolving client demands.
Louise’s extensive network and deep market understanding, along with her passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), have established her as a trusted partner in filling critical roles for the UK & Ireland’s largest brands. Responsible for the strategic management of the team, Louise is dedicated to ensuring that Core-Asset Consulting continues to be a trusted partner for both existing and new clients.
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