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 Architectto 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.