Applications and Intergration Architect at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Key Responsibilities:

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• Lead in solution design activities.
  
  
• Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
  
  
• Develop, implement and guard architecture principles and development standards.
  
  
• Identify and recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions/systems.
  
  
• Lead in elicitation and documentation of non-functional requirements.
  
  
• Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend Design Patterns and guide their application / use in delivering integration solutions in the bank.
  
  
• Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of re-using it for future solutions. Review the existing integrations landscape and provide/develop plans for closure of any new or existing/known issues.
  
  
• Deployment Architectures - Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
  
  
• Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance / load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.
  
  

Skills & Experience

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• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related Course
  
  
• At least 7 years’ experience in Technology within the domains of Software development and solutions architecture.
  
  
• At least 7 years of Integration hands on experience using enterprise tools.
  
  
• Hands on development experience in service decomposition, solution design and implementation based on microservices architecture.
  
  
• Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations and priorities. 
  
  
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
  
  
• Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP/HTTP, REST and JMS/MQ protocols.
  
  
• Solid software development experience using Object Oriented Programming languages.
  
  
• Deep expertise on cloud technologies and concepts.
  
  
• Deep expertise in various relational databases – Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
  
  
• Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices.
  
  
• Integration knowledge of event-based streaming and integration, pub-sub, and request-reply, synchronous-asynchronous patterns.
  
  
• Working knowledge of API security - authentication, authorization, policies etc.
  
  
• Experience in performance planning and execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the solutions/services for optimal performance. 
  
  
• Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture - infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security.
  
  

The Person

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• Ability to perform impact analysis of new and proposed architectures in relation to the current landscape and available technologies utilized in the IT environment.
  
  
• Cloud certifications on either AWS or Azure will be an advantage.
  
  
• Must have a strong and proven software development background.
  
  
• Applies discretion and independent judgment to identify when deviation from standard practice is required / imminent.
  
  
• Good experience with microservices architecture, with understanding of integrations software patterns. 
  
  
• Sound knowledge of various messaging architectures.
  
  
• Past experience on usage of Principles, Standards and Guidelines on Integration Architecture decision making for all solutions.
  
  
• Participation in key projects as a lead architect.
  
  
• Hands on experience in SDLC processes & agile based development methodology.
  
  
• Ability to conceptualize, formulate, and present complex business demands / requirements via comprehensible models and templates.
  
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication; self-motivated, dynamic, team player, result driven, relationship builder, independent worker with excellent interpersonal relation building skills.