SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES NEEDED:

• Expert technical skills and proven experience across the architecture disciplines of Application, Integration, Data and Security and proven experience bringing all these views together into an organised IT architecture.

• Proven experience architecting and implementing large scale on-premise and cloud/hybrid cloud business applications.

• Proven experience architecting business applications and services to run on complex large scale on-premise and cloud/hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Proven experience providing advice and support to the various business and technology stakeholders in designing future ICT platforms and business support services.
• Proven experience working with architecture tools, frameworks and methodologies with the ability to define, publish, and maintain high quality architecture documentation.
• Proven experience in producing design documentation in advance of implementation in both waterfall and agile project delivery.
• Proven experience of functional application architecture design patterns and leading practices.
• Strong understanding of designing software for non-functional requirements (e.g. system performance, availability, scalability, etc.)
• Proven experience of architecting on large transformation programmes.
• Knowledge and understanding of architecting software to run across multiple platform technologies (e.g. VMWare, RedHat OpenShift, IMDG, Redis, 3Scale, SSO/Keycloak, OIDC, Identity Management, LDAP & Active Directory), database technologies (e.g. MariaDB/Galera, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Ingres), application technologies (JBoss, Springboot), web UI technologies (e.g. Angular SPA) and operational knowledge of CICD pipelines and Jenkins build operations.
• Knowledge and understanding of SOA and microservices architecture patterns and practical application of these patterns to designing optimal solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of IT governance processes with experience providing architectural governance across projects.
• Ability to oversee the implementation of a solution architecture based on business requirements and ICT strategy.
• Strong understanding of Non-functional Requirements (e.g. system performance, availability, scalability, etc.).
• Understanding of application programming interface (API), micro-services and interoperability solutions.
• Understanding of Federation and federated identity providers (local, social, other external).
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to engage with various stakeholders to define and get agreement on technical aspects of IT architecture.
• Ability to support in forming the future strategic direction of its ICT and digital services.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in architecting (7 years’) and implementing on-premise and cloud/hybrid cloud business applications.
• Experience across the architecture disciplines of:
  o Application, Integration, Infrastructure, Data and Security.

o How you applied the above disciplines in an organised IT architecture.

• Experience in:

o Producing design documentation.
o RedHat OpenShift, 3Scale, SSO/Keycloak, OIDC, Identity Management, LDAP & Active Directory.
o Java, Springboot implementation, MariaDB/Galera and other relational database technologies.

o Web UI technologies.

• Knowledge and understanding of cross datacentre (on-prem/cloud) deployment patterns for high availability and disaster recovery.

Please refer the Job description for details