Interested in the flexibility of working from home, unlimited annual leave AND the latest software technologies?? Well…
Evolve-IT are delighted to bring to market a Software Architect role with our client who is a rapidly growing FinTech company. Our client is building the next generation of payment solutions and as a senior software architect you will be at the forefront of the innovative and cutting-edge development that is continually happening day to day. They partner with the best in the industry to ensure their customers get smart and seamless custom business solutions. With over £53bn in annual revenue this company is a market leader and a phenomenal place to work, and it is only going to keep growing.
The Software Architect is responsible for leading design and development activities associated with clients API and gateway platforms. The architect oversees an infrastructure that supports real-time capabilities across the nationwide payment processing network.
The successful candidate will have the following duties and responsibilities as well some others;
- Assist in establishing technical direction across the organization with a sound and pragmatic approach.
- Contribute to the maintenance of formal architecture and technology roadmap.
- Identify architectural challenges and lead the creation of a strategy for the enterprise, making architectural decisions that have an impact across the company.
- Ability to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in an enterprise system, and effectively advocate for appropriate solutions to shortcomings.
- Participate in coding activities that are in support of design outcomes.
- Prepare and document the enterprise architecture vision and strategy as well as critical approaches to broad architectural concerns affecting various areas of the company.
- Participate in the definition of architecture principles, styles, policies, and standards; create architectural mechanisms to address concerns that have a broad impact (e.g., system integration across the enterprise); coach feature teams to follow them.
- Produce and maintain useful and usable documentation of work, and regularly contribute to the general Engineering body of knowledge.
The ideal candidate will have;
- Proven commercial experience in application and enterprise architecture.
- Proven commercial experience software design and coding experience, with emphasis on SaaS based service / external facing API platforms.
- Proven commercial experience with .NET, Java or a similar language.
- Experience working with payments would be a significant bonus.
- Experience working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML / XSLT, SQL, database design, message-oriented-middleware, caching, and systems integration.
- Hands-on experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues for both web-based applications and databases.
- Proven experience translating Business Requirements into solutions.
- Technical leader and coach, aware of the applicability of new technologies.
- Can work at an abstract level and create abstractions that clarify and contribute to system integrity across the enterprise.
- Proven experience translating Business Requirements into solutions.
- Technical leader and coach, aware of the applicability of new technologies.
- Can work at an abstract level and create abstractions that clarify and contribute to system integrity across the enterprise.
This role is fully remote; however, the candidate must be based in UK or Ireland. The successful candidate will receive £85-100K plus 9% bonus as well as unlimited holidays and other benefits!
If this role would be of interest to you, please don’t hesitate to contact me, via email – jack@evolve-it.com or by phone 01313747682.