We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Architect to join our Insights and Analytics community where we develop creative new tools to service the needs of the firm’s clients. The role will be focused initially on the design and implementation of applications related to our Investment propositions, and the evolution of our investment data platform.
The successful candidate will be a confident technical architect with deep technical expertise in modern technologies, able to take a pragmatic, yet well-structured approach to designing and developing business critical applications. They should be comfortable working as part of a team, as well as having the initiative to explore solutions on their own – the position offers an excellent opportunity to maintain ‘hands on’ involvement whilst also playing an influential role in architectural and technical design decisions.
The role can be based in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Key Responsibilities
1. Designing and developing applications in close collaboration with stakeholders.
2. Providing guidance on the overall technical architecture of the team’s solutions.
3. Keeping abreast of the latest tools, techniques and best practice in software engineering and helping the team adopt best practice as appropriate.
4. Producing functional, technical and design documentation where necessary.
5. Contributing to our firmwide technical architect community and helping shape our overall architectural design decisions and principles.
The Candidate
1. Initiative and a ‘can do’ approach.
2. Motivated self-starter, able to demonstrate genuine passion and drive.
3. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
4. Ability to prioritise and juggle conflicting demands.
5. The confidence to question and challenge assumptions around what appropriate solutions to problems and opportunities might be.
6. Ability to provide technical leadership on projects.
7. Consideration of internal and external constraints on projects.
8. Consideration of future requirements.
Qualifications and Experience
1. Hands on experience with as many as possible of the following:
o ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core
o C#
o Angular
o R
o Functional design patterns
o Azure cloud and associated technologies
o Web services architecture
o Single sign-on design and implementation
o Object-oriented design patterns
o Microservices
o CQRS
o APIs
o SQL Server/Transact SQL
o Testing frameworks such as NUnit, Moq, and SpecFlow
o Git & Azure DevOps
2. Experience of working in a DevOps environment supporting and contributing to agile software delivery essential.
3. Exposure to financial modelling, ideally within the Investment domain.
4. Able to translate end user/stakeholder requirements into detailed technical/architectural specifications when appropriate and in turn into robust solutions.
5. Strong experience of technical and architectural design with large-scale web applications.
6. In-depth understanding of non-functional requirements such as security and scalability.
7. Proven ability to collaborate successfully with client and 3rd party technical teams.
8. Strong commercial awareness.
9. Proven ability to articulate technical concepts efficiently with senior stakeholders.
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