Job Description

Solutions Architect

£200 - £300 per day

12-month contract (must be available to start immediately)

Basildon - MUST BE A CAR DRIVER DUE TO CLIENT'S LOCATION AND LIVE IN ESSEX

Full Time/Contract (Fully based on-site)

Benefits: 26 days holiday; Life Insurance; Sick Pay; Pension Scheme

We are on the lookout for a Solutions Architect to join our client's team, located in the Basildon on a 12-month contract. You will help design, implement, and maintain efficient, scalable, and secure their financial database systems.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the integrity, availability, and performance of our database infrastructure. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong background in IT database management, optimisation, and troubleshooting.

Duties:

Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs

Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences

Contribute to technical Change Requests

Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns

Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations

Maintain the AsIs design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set

Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture

Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams

Core Competencies:

Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems

Platform and application development

Has recently designed services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments

Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches

Understands how security design is integrated into the solution designYour Skills:

Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions

Data - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology

Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach

Security - having worked in sensitive data environmentsPlease note; you must be a UK resident with full rights to work in the UK for this position. Applications outside of a reasonable commuting distance will not be shortlisted, please ensure your location details are on your CV when you apply