Data Solution Architect

Data Solution Architect

London,United Kingdom

Permanent

Skills

Java

AWS/Azure

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Python

solutions architecture

Accountabilities

Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.

Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.

Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.

Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.

Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.

Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.

Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.

Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Skills needed

Data - essential - all aspects including principles, relationships, integrity, lineage, quality assessment. The data is currently in the ServiceNow SAM Pro module Events and data in motion

ServiceNow - good knowledge of the platform would be ideal but not essential

Automation - automation of manual processes

Technologies for the work hasn't been explicitly chosen, but is likely to include:

AWS, Java, Kafka, Python, APIs (REST), incl PostgreSQL