Company

The fintech company stablished in 1997, which has helped shape the online trading industry by merging innovative technology, market movements and digital trends. The multi-awarded online trading platform enables traders to access the market and invest in stocks or trade CFDs with underlying assets being commodities, Forex, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and others. The company is, also, the Official Online Trading Partner of FC Bayern, bringing the exciting worlds of football and trading together. And builds innovative fintech so people can #TradeForMore.

Job Overview

With a broad geography, several regulations, a fast-increasing number of leads, and significant in-house product development, we have a complex to manage the corporate landscape. We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team who will collaborate with the Information Technology and Business Departments and make the company growth optimal.

The role requires both technical and interpersonal skills. It also assumes longer-term (strategic) thinking and planning skills.

Main Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Enterprise Architecture team, you will work with Business-departments, IT Delivery & Operation teams to discover optimal solutions for various business problems. You should consider both functional and non-functional requirements: cost efficiency, time to market, and quality.
• Develop technical product documentation, including product vision, roadmap, NFRs.
• Record decisions and share among the IT Department.
• Lead technical choices, including technology stack choice.
• Participate in development of technical standards.
• Offer and participate in the 3rd party software choice, participate in negotiations with vendors.
• Typically, depending on experience, assignment to the roles of Domain Architect and Application Architect is encouraged.

Requirements

Total experience 8+ years is a must

• Working experience of 2+ years as an Architect, System Analyst, or top-tire Developer or DevOps/SysOps;
• Understanding of fintech, retail industry specifics;
• Understanding of software development processes;
• Clear communication skills & the ability to build strong business relationships; experience in negotiation at a high level;
• Ability to determine systems reliability and performance problems and discover, validate and offer solutions;
• Ability to write product documentation (specification, requirements, instructions, product strategy, and roadmap);
• Languages: English – Upper-Intermediate

Additional Skills and knowledge preferred

• Understanding of general software development processes within the Agile framework (Scrum, SAFe);
• Understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), design approach (e.g., DDD, EDA, MSA);
• Experience of working with public cloud (AWS, etc.).

Benefits

• Work in a pleasant and enjoyable environment near the Montenegrin sea or mountains
• Quarterly bonuses based on Company performance
• Generous relocation package for the employee and their immediate family/partner
• Medical Insurance Plan with coverage for the employee and their immediate family from day one
• 24 working days of annual leave
• Yearly reimbursement of travel expenses for the employee and family's flight home
• Corporate events and team building activities
• Udemy Business unlimited membership & language training courses
• Professional and personal development opportunities in a fast-growing environment

Company: A large Russian bank, one of the leaders in the financial services market. The Bank works with all categories of clients large, medium and small businesses, individual entrepreneurs, self-employed and individuals.

Tasks: 

• Gathering, analyzing and documenting customer's business and functional requirements for business process automation.
• Development and coordination of technical specifications and design solutions.
• Setting tasks for developers.
• Final functional testing of the developed software before acceptance testing.
• Organization and performance of acceptance tests and commissioning.
• Showings and presentations of new functionality, as well as initial training of key users.
• Analyzing and working out options for eliminating errors in the industrial environment (3rd line of support).

Requirements:

• Knowledge and understanding of automation requirements gathering and processing techniques. Understanding of the difference between good requirements and bad requirements and knowledge of methods for turning bad requirements into good requirements.
• Experience describing business processes (in any notation, but ePC or BPMN is preferred).
• Experience creating object and data flow models.
• Ability to create quality diagrams that explain requirements (logic models, interaction diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.).
• Experience in setting tasks for developers.
• Knowledge of xml, SOAP and integration techniques.

Will be a plus:

• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Knowledge of UI design principles.
• Basic programming knowledge.
• Understanding of microservice architecture principles.
• Understanding of agile development principles.
• Experience working in Jira.