Key Responsibilities:
Lead in solution design activities.
Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
Develop, implement and guard architecture principles and development standards.
Identify and recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions/systems.
Lead in elicitation and documentation of non-functional requirements.
Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend Design Patterns and guide their application / use in delivering integration solutions in the bank.
Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of re-using it for future solutions. Review the existing integrations landscape and provide/develop plans for closure of any new or existing/known issues.
Deployment Architectures - Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance / load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.
Requirements
At least 7 years' experience in Technology within the domains of Software development and solutions architecture.
At least 7 years of Integration hands on experience using enterprise tools.
Hands on development experience in service decomposition, solution design and implementation based on microservices architecture.
Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations and priorities.
Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP/HTTP, REST and JMS / MQ protocols.
Solid software development experience using Object Oriented Programming languages.
Deep expertise on cloud technologies and concepts.
Deep expertise in various relational databases – Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices.
Integration knowledge of event-based streaming and integration, pub-sub, and request-reply, synchronous-asynchronous patterns.
Working knowledge of API security - authentication, authorization, policies etc.
Experience in performance planning and execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the solutions/services for optimal performance.
Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture - infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security.