Job responsibilities
- Advises and leads on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
- Defines strategic implementations across Infrastructure Platforms and ensure adherence to the target state across multiple domains.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
- Drive the integration of our on-prem Gaia2 platform with public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP) under pinned by our common Atlas 2.0 management plane to provide a more seamless cloud experience that is secure, and highly resilient whilst enhancing the developer end-to-end experience.
- Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
- Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
- Establishes and leads an architecture governance body
- Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that improves velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years of relevant experience.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
- Expertise in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture disciplines
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud native experience
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven experience in leading architecture designs from inception to completion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
- In-depth understanding of security best practices and regulatory requirements in financial services.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior architects and technical staff.