Solution Architect

at  Mediolanum International Funds Limited

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Knowledge of solution architecture and technical design methodologies and good practices.
• Analytical mindset, capable of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on high quality technical design documentation.
• Ability to understand functional and non-functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet set standards of quality in a regulated environment.
• Ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and be highly motivated.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Educated to degree level in Computer Science or relevant technical discipline with adequate technical experience.
• Certification in solution architecture or data architecture processes and methodologies an advantage
• Certification in Snowflake, Microsoft Azure data services an advantage.
• 5-10 years’ experience in software engineering, design or system integration roles that ideally includes the delivery across business application, analytics, and data integration components.
• Minimum of 2+ years’ experience in Senior Designer, Architect or a similar role where you have been the technical leader of a team responsible for the design of software or system components.
• Experience in Financial Services, but not necessarily in Funds, Asset Management and/or Life Insurance.
• Experience with data warehouse architectures, designing structured and unstructured data stores, logical data modelling, physical data modelling.
• Experience of designing solutions that use cloud-based technologies such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Snowflake

ROLE PROFILE

We are seeking a Solution Architect for a permanent role based in Dublin. You will work in the IT Architecture and Analysis team defining and documenting solution architectures for a range of data warehouse, business applications and analytics projects to support and contribute to the company’s growth. This is a terrific opportunity for applicants to gain exposure working in an agile data team using the latest data and cloud technologies as part of an innovative asset management and investments organization.

DUTIES

• Work pro-actively with senior management, IT colleagues, technology partners and Mediolanum business subject matter experts to:
• Develop a deep understanding of Mediolanum technical strategy and assist the IT leadership and project stakeholders in the prioritization and phasing of delivery of solutions.
• Document high-quality project solution architecture including the specification of functional & non-functional scope, technology components, information flows, conceptual data models, integration patterns and non-functional requirements.
• Work alongside Head of Architecture and Business Analyst colleagues to design solutions that are aligned to business requirements.
• Understand, document, and agree with stakeholders the technical and business objectives that are to be met by the solution architecture.
• Perform technology research and conduct effective workshops to gather information on potential technical solutions from stakeholders, Mediolanum IT team and technology vendors.
• Collaborate with engineering and data analytics teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions. Review delivery team output to ensure solution architectures are accurately implemented.
• Create and maintain architecture guidelines and documentation templates including solution architecture templates, interface specifications, data modelling tools and metadata tools.