To work on a large banking project, a Senior+, Lead, Lead+ Solution Architect is required.

You will have to:

• Technical leadership in the implementation of the DBO project of individuals;
• Review of the software architecture of the solution and the deployment infrastructure;
• Participation in the development of the architecture of the solution, development of integration flows;
• Technical coordination of internal and external teams;
• Analysis of incidents and prevention techniques;
• Development of solutions for monitoring and fault tolerance, systematic increase in the availability of the solution;
• Coordination of all IT services of the bank to ensure smooth operation and/or incident resolution;
• Making key technical decisions of the project;
• Analysis of functional and non-functional requirements in the context of system and platform architecture;
• Participation in setting tasks for analysts and developers;
• Audit of decisions made by system analysts, choosing the optimal way to implement business requirements in accordance with the accepted approaches.

Required experience:

• Understanding the concepts and limitations of distributed systems;
• Experience in developing high-load WEB applications on architectures as a system architect/lead developer/tim lida;
• Experience in managing a development team for at least 3 years;
• Experience in designing from scratch or developing a microservice platform (plus translation from monolith);
• Good knowledge of design and integration patterns;
• Expert knowledge of the language Java programming;
• Experience in developing architectural documentation (component, functional, deployment, etc.);
• Knowledge of the Kubernetes/OpenShift/OKD platform;
• Experience working with PostgreSQL DBMS and building a cluster;
• Experience working with any Message/Streaming-oriented middleware from the list (Kafka, Rabbit MQ, NATS, Websphere MQ);
• Confident knowledge of software development methodologies and principles.

Project description and requirements for Background to the assignment

The company provides Data Science support for chemistry product development and support R&D. This includes the design and development of production-ready web application to serve the developed data science model to the end-user and other things.

Therefore, the development requires a secure setup of Azure services according to an existing system architecture. To keep compliance with company's standards, the setup needs to be automated using Terraform and should follow Microsoft recommendations for security and networking. There is also a need for a proper test environment concept and deployment automation for the web application components according to the concept.

Consequently, we need an expert with sufficient expertise in connection with Azure Serverless technologies in a secure setup and their automated deployment, handling of test environment as well as logging and monitoring of serverless applications.

Backlog items will be assigned in Azure DevOps containing business requirements and acceptance criteria.

Workload based on Agile environment, 2 weeks sprints. With Sprint meetings once in two weeks and Daily meetings.

Tasks

Automation of build and deployment of web app components based on Docker container and Azure serverless technologies

• Staged deployment and test environment concept for App Service apps and Function App APIs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of API specs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of code documentation
• Concept for logging and monitoring of serverless functions App Service apps and Function App APIs

Automation of Azure services provisioning based on Terraform

• Setup of Azure App Service, Function App under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform
• Setup of Cosmos DB under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform

Documentation of technical implementation which is subject to approval by the client.