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Our mission is to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy by providing innovative financial solutions to our clients.
We are not just any energy and sustainability group; we're a dynamic, award-winning powerhouse! At the forefront of environmental innovation, we provide cutting-edge solutions for large-scale energy consumers. We do everything from guiding small businesses to corporate giants on their journey to achieve net zero emissions to expertly managing risks and supplying vital power and gas resources. But wait, there's more! We're not content with excelling in our current ventures - we thrive on pioneering new businesses and seizing energy investment opportunities.
About the role:
We are looking for an experienced Technical Solution Architect to design and oversee the delivery of the high-level enterprise architecture of our trading systems. Our ideal candidate will be passionate about best practices within technology, fully supportive of what the group is doing, and wishes to make a difference. This is a hands-off role but it's perfect for architects with previous background in software development.
Responsibilities:
* Be responsible for setting architectural principles to ensure our solutions are scalable, secure and maintainable.
* Work closely with product management, Head of Engineering and align technical architecture with product vision. Contribute to the strategic direction of the technology team.
* Guide technical discovery and support planning, scoping activities of new projects and features.
* Collaborate with engineering teams to provide architectural guidance, have a mentoring mindset.
* Champion event-driven architectures with a strong focus on Kafka.
* Drive innovation by discovering new technologies, reviewing tooling, and making suggestions on improving our current solutions and ways of working.
Key skills:
* Previous experience as a Technical Architect, Solution Architect or similar role.
* Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, ideally Azure; previous experience with Kubernetes.
* Good knowledge of event-driven architectures.
* Familiarity with DevOps principles, and security standards.
* Experience with energy or commodity trading. Passion for green technologies.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients, team members, and stakeholders at all levels.
* Keen to drive the change you seek and be an autonomous, proactive, confident, credible, and persuasive team player.
The CF Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Other
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Services for Renewable Energy
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