Portfolio Solution Architect

Kraków

Portfolio Solution Architect
Kraków
NR REF.: 1150142


Your new company
For our Client, global financial institution, we are currently looking for Portfolio Solution Architect.

Key experiences:

• +8 years of total experience in IT
• At Least 3 years’ experience as Technical Lead or Architect in workflows (Appian or similar platforms)
• Experience to build high level proposal (eg. Clear Choice) and articulate the pros and cons, in Business term, to ensure conscious decisions are made
• Experience with analysing requirements and providing fit for purpose solution designs following best architecture practices
• Ability to manage proof of concepts, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate and eventually adopt most suitable solutions
• Experienced to coach the engineering team to follow technical guidance and best-practices
• Effective communication skills, graphical, written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with agile methods, along with having found their limitations and ways to overcome them.
• Should be able to support Domain architect to run Technical Architecture reviews
• Experience in Architecture, Design, and Implementation of highly scalable, highly available, Cloud services and solutions.

Key Technical stack requirement:

• Experience with workflow platforms with preference for Appian
• Experience with BPM
• Experience in designing and developing workflows, User Interface applications, decision rules and data model.
• Experienced with Java, modern development frameworks and development CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in designing internal/external APIs in secured manner in cloud and in on-prem environments (e.g. with mulesoft runtime)
• Experience in applying the right design patterns for cloud and hybrid architecture (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience on designing integrations using technologies like Kafka, Pub/Sub, REST, message queues

Following experiences would be preferable but are not mandatory:

• Experienced in developing or leveraging APIs and API Gateways (e.g. Mulesoft, APIGEE) for runtime governance and security of backend services
• Familiar with microservices architecture and leading technology stack such as docker, Kubernetes
• Appian Certification Level 3
• Experience in using cloud solutions (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Usage of monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Splunk, NewRelic
• Working with Confluence, JIRA, git, Jenkins, Sonar or similar tools used for collaboration and continuous integration.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices and Architecture standards

Principal Accountabilities:
 Key activities and decision making areas

• Ensure design provides a solution to the functional and non-functional requirements (eg. Cybersecurity, performance, entitlement…) and all deviations formally documented and agreed with appropriate parties
• Defines solutions by designing proposed systems with attention to system integration, scalability, feasibility and support, ambition to automate all deployments/testings; eg. defining microservices physical structure and functional capabilities, security, and recovery specifications.
• Using tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product
• Maintains performance by identifying and resolving production and application development problems; calculating optimum values for parameters; evaluating, integrating, and installing new releases; completing maintenance; answering user questions.
• Provides support by coding utilities, champion adoption of industry best practices within the engineering team.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Defines and implements a sustainable operating model for technical activities in Technology teams, business teams, which is aligned with the DevOps target operating model, ensuring that interfaces and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood.

• Being responsible for team mentoring and reporting to the Architecture core team.
• Always reach out to other teams facing similar challenges to share/learn best practices.
• Demonstrate leadership on Regulatory & Compliance matters. Maintain awareness of operational risk and minimize the likelihood of it occurring including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control, loss identification and reporting in accordance.

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