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    Solutions Architect - City of London, United Kingdom - Morgan McKinley

    Morgan McKinley
    Morgan McKinley City of London, United Kingdom

    3 hours ago

    Default job background
    Banking / Loans
    Description

    Role:
    Solutions Architect


    Location:
    London (Hybrid)

    Remuneration:
    circa £90,000 plus bonus and benefits
    Tenure: 12-month fixed term (to go to permanent thereafter)

    The Company

    Our client is the premier trade organisation representing firms across finance, banking, markets, and payments in the UK.

    Their diverse membership includes national and international entities, serving a broad spectrum of customers from individuals to corporates, charities to government bodies.

    With a focus on customer-centricity, they champion the interests of their members' clientele, ensuring access to essential financial products and services for their day-to-day operations.

    Job Purpose


    As a Solutions Architect (SA) within the IT department, you'll forge strong relationships with business SMEs to drive successful outcomes.

    You'll lead technology design activities, evaluating our current setup and suggesting future enhancements.


    Your key tasks include:
    Leading technical initiatives such as ERP system evaluation and migrating to MS Office 365.
    Ensuring optimal returns from our technology stack.
    Prioritizing the expansion of our Financial Crime platform on AWS to meet industry regulations by October 2024.

    You'll collaborate with internal teams, third-party vendors, and external partners to improve the platform and mitigate project risks. Your role also involves maintaining seamless communication among stakeholders and ensuring alignment with organisational changes.

    Duties & Responsibilities

    Responsible for the technical delivery of the Financial Crime platform expansion at all stages, including driving delivery of key milestones and providing status reporting into the programme
    Responsible for developing business and implementation plans as detailed, along with stakeholders
    Experience of running complex, cross-sector projects via a structured methodology, including planning, producing project artefacts and responsibility for budgetary management of external vendors, where required
    Manage dependencies across multiple groups of stakeholders including external stakeholders from the financial services industry
    Drive key discussions with stakeholders and analyse the current landscape for opportunities to articulate and implement creative solutions.
    Monitor delivery and ensure milestones are met. Find effective strategies to remove blocks and delays where necessary
    Have experience in the design and development of PoCs
    Be able to deliver projects from inception to completion often working with a broad mix of individuals and companies with diverse skill sets
    Possess outstanding attention to detail and understand the need for high quality documentation
    Collaborate with various companies (vendors, operators and others) to provide technical recommendations and specifications for wider industry adoption
    Experienced in the Agile methodology and processes with a hands-on approach to assist with the design and prototyping for product backlog and road-mapped features

    Be able to work towards tight deadlines, being personally resilient and able to balance, at times, the pressure of a demanding workload and complex client needs.

    Qualifications
    Education to degree-level or equivalent
    Formal project management methodology qualifications, such as PRINCE2 or Agile
    Qualifications such as the Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Security Engineer Associate or equivalent from other Cloud Service Providers
    Experience in dealing with IT Transformation projects

    Skills & Competencies

    In-depth knowledge of Cloud computing and Cloud-specific patterns, with a track record of developing and designing cloud environments

    Technical skills covering some of the following:
    Networking (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN, and VPC)
    Containerization and DevOps Tools
    Security
    Artificial Intelligence, including ML, RPA and Natural Language Processing

    Commercial experience with Event Driven Architectures
    Ability to architect applications in AWS/Azure using a wide array of AWS/Azure native components and services in collaboration with third-party commercial tools
    Architecting the digital strategic vision in collaboration with internal teams and third parties, ensuring clear links back to the organisational vision and strategy
    Developing enterprise-level roadmaps for clients, including the creation of enterprise standards, relevant business models, and technology standards
    Expert in ensuring all digital initiatives align with the strategic vision
    Promote and own continuous improvement for cost reduction, application / member appropriate security and efficiency
    Designing end-to-end solutions using a set of robust architecture principles
    Build rapport quickly, creating positive and productive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
    Have excellent communication and presentation skills, and actively enjoy shaping requirements and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

    Advantageous:
    knowledge of Fraud and Scams and Financial Services

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