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

• 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 design

Your 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 environments

Please 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.