Solution Design Lead

• Design large scale systems, interacting with other internal large-scale systems.
• Manage & execute the design, development and testing of customer / colleague and technology features and in line with service priorities.
• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs, ideas or problems.
• Present potential solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ensure tech stacks and frameworks being proposed are aligned with architectural direction.
• Define, create and present detailed Solution Design documentation to a diverse group of stakeholders (Architect forum, Design forum, Squad members...).
• Design solutions around risks, privacy, governance, compliance, etc.
• Collaborate with the software engineering teams and project stakeholders to continually deliver customer value.
• Working relationships within the role
o Solutions Design Lead (frequent) -clarification of issues, referral for guidance, escalation of problems, review of work
o Architect (frequent) -clarification of requirements and issues, referral for guidance, mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge
o Applications Specialist (frequent) -clarification of requirements, mutual collaboration to ensure that outcomes are in line with business unit requirements, sharing of experience and knowledge
o Solution Design Colleagues (frequent) -mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge across teams, peer review and coaching
o Programmers (frequent) -collaborate to develop detailed system design in line with business requirements
o Project Managers (frequent) -assist in the definition of project scoping

• Bachelor’s Degree In Computer Science Or Equivalent Work Experience

• Good English Communication Skills, Interpersonal And Collaboration Skills, Strong Team Working Ability.

• Experience Of 10+ Years In Application Design And / Or Development Roles And 15+ Years In The Technology Field And Industry.

• Strong Stakeholder Management And Communication Skills

• Deep Understanding Of Microservices Architecture Including Designing And Architecting Microservices In Large Scale Systems And Complex Environments

• Understanding Of DevOps Including The Knowledge Of Testing Automation, AWS/Azure Cloud, APIs And Microservices

• Solid Experience In Designing And Developing Restful APIs And Microservices-Based System, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka)

• Experience With Java (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Java 8 & 11, ...), Java (NodeJS, ReactJS, ...)

• Experience On Working With Containerised Application And Container Orchestration (E.g. Docker, K8s...)

• Understanding CI/CD And Its Related Tools (E.g. Harness, Jenkins...)

• Strong Understanding Of Application Security

• Experience In Service Integration, SDLC

• Experience On Applying MS Architecture Patterns (E.g. BFF, API Gateway, Circuit Breaker, Saga, ...)

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge And Experience In The Banking Domain

• Solid Experience In Agile Development Environment

• AWS Certification / Azure Certification