Senior Solution Architect

Our client, a start-up venture offering a complete end to end payment solution to their customers are seeking a Senior Solution Architect to join their team. You will be part of growing business and will work in the Berkshire area. The Senior Solution Architect will deliver solution architect designs and technical infrastructure requirements. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working in the payments or banking or fintech industry, and would like to be in a leadership position where he or she can provide assistance of prospect with choosing the right set of products and designing the appropriate application or integrations.

Key Responsibilities

To manage relations with software architects, developers, project and product managers
To work alongside the sales team to ensure a complete understanding of the client requirement
To lead solution architecture design, and application development
To document and present the solution architecture to the client and take a leading role in the application design and integration aspects of the solution
To provide assistance with choosing the right set of tools a and products and designing the appropriate applications
To maintain a high level of commercial and technical understanding of the relevant business area and technical specialism
To be able to provide support and guidance to more junior team members.
To complete ad hoc duties and tasks allocated through line management chain

Skills & Experience

Ideally educated to degree level (first class or upper second)
Proven experience of solutions architecture
Minimum of 10 years’ experience working in a commercial environment
Extensive knowledge of either detailed infrastructure design or software solutions design and relevant architectural techniques
Ability to understand and clearly articulate current and future technology platforms and their benefits
Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to mixed audiences
Experience of operating in a customer facing role communicating technology issues
Strong relationship building, communication, and influencing skills
Experience of working with iterative methodologies (Agile, Scrum, XP, RUP, etc)
A pragmatic but innovative problem solver combined with a highly delivery focused style
Proven experience of delivering technical projects

Essential skills and experience

Extensive experience of Cloud Hosting (AWS) with knowledge of migrating to AWS from legacy system
Expert knowledge of networks, VPNs, firewalls, load-balancing, high availability and resilience in an AWS environment
In-depth knowledge of AWS components
In-depth knowledge of automating AWS Infrastructure environment
Knowledge of Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration
Experience of using tools such as JIRA or Slack.
Knowledge of Unix, particularly Linux
Experience with Oracle
Experience with Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory
Ability to train and mentor lesser-experienced team members
Knowledge of PCI DSS standard and other information security best practices
Aware of ITIL and Agile methodologies
Good verbal and interpersonal skills
Appetite to work in a small technical team
Able to troubleshoot and manage problems, escalating where necessary
Excellent writing skills and able to produce quality technical documentation
Should have worked in a large IT Server environment for at least 7 years
Should be a car driver and willing to travel to other sites when required