About Us:
Founded on the grounds of innovation – iXceed Solutions is an ISO certified, leader in Talent and Digital recruitment solutions, serving Fortune 100 companies globally.
About The Role:
Role – Application Architect
Location: London, UK
Work type – Permanent
Hybrid – 3 days from office
* Seasoned Solutions/IT architect having proven technology track with 12-15 years of experience, with at least 8-10 years of experience in ‘Banking and Financial Services’ (BFS) domain. Experience in leading solution/technical architecture team to define complex enterprise architecture and implementation roadmap and present/defend solution to client CTO/EA team and align with business and IT stakeholders. Experience in architectural change management and implementation governance.
Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain the overall IT architecture using Microsoft technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, .Net and Dynamics 365.
* Strong technical hands on skills skills in React native and .Net technologies.
* Technology leadership focused on 1 or 2 LOBs/Accounts within an SBU and will be responsible for driving architectural and technology initiatives for those accounts, working closely with SBU
* Demonstrate the ability to evangelize architectures and strategies to business executives and project leaders in order to gain stakeholder commitment.
* Ability to perform architectural assessment and provide remediation guidance for existing architectures or systems in crisis.
* Lead team of solution/technical architects and collaborate with various stakeholders from business, IT, Operations, partners, vendors to define enterprise architecture blueprint.
* Mediate opposing viewpoints and negotiate equitable solutions to ensure successful and stable outcomes.
* Establish, maintain, and evolve process and policies for architecture governance for those programs or projects in which the LOB architects are responsible.
* Establish metrics for validating the conformance of a solution to an architecture.
Skill / Experience:
* Must have shown technical leadership in conducting strategic architectural projects or initiatives.
* Must have demonstrated positive significant impact on the business by leading significantly complex projects, applications, or system-of-systems architectures.
* Knowledge of the technology, trends, and techniques in the IT industry
* Leadership capability to drive, mentor and scale the team in technology & architecture area.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management capability
* Must have experience in driving Enterprise / Solution architecture definition
* Must have experience in ‘Banking and Financial Services’ domain
* Certification in TOGAF or technology architecture (Ex: Cloud etc.) is added advantages.
Skills
* Mandatory Skills : Architectural diagrams, Docker, Microservices, Software Engineering and Design Architecture, UML diagrams