Solution Architect, VP

Job Title: Solution Architect, VP

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

Your role will be an Individual contributor in the team. You will be closely working with team comprising of engineers, Lead, functional analysts, and test lead. The team is responsible for developing and implementing micro-services, Front end Application development & enhancements, integrating another partner and client integrations.

As a Solution architect you are expected to give the team be hands on with software development, contribute towards good software design and test developed software. You will also be engaged in peer code reviews, document design decisions, and components APIs. You will be participating in daily stand up meetings, analysing software defects and fixing them in a timely manner, and working closely with the Functional Analysis and Quality Assurance teams. As/when required to, you are also expected to train other team members to bring them up to speed.

Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery.  At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production suppor

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Design and Integration: Develop and integrate information systems to meet the company’s needs.

System Evaluation: Assess current systems architecture and work with technical staff to recommend solutions for improvement.

Technical Guidance: Provide supervision and guidance to development teams.

Problem Solving: Resolve technical issues as they arise.

Stakeholder Communication: Inform stakeholders about any issues with current technical solutions and provide updates on product development processes, costs, and budgets.

Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams and technical specifications.

You are expected to contribute to the develop best practices and patterns, understand our product roadmap, integrate business value with technical experience and contribute to building an class engineering model and software product. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development concepts. A good understanding and experience of Cloud engineering concepts are a MUST.

• Analyze and understand complex business and engineering challenges.
• Understand user needs, and build end-to-end user experiences via practical, reliable, and efficient solutions.
• Developing solutions to problems both tactical and strategic as the business requires it
• Working closely with the business users to understand requirements and deliver high quality solutions
• Providing estimates for tasks, including design, development and testing
• Working on a micro services distributed architecture for strategic enhancements to a low-latency Foreign Exchange electronic trading platform
• Working closely with Business Analysts, Technical Leads, Quality Assurance team and Quantitative Developers
• Developing and delivering solutions to meet the business requirements.
• Implementing best practices and showcase the best fit solutions.
• Contributing on CI/CD enhancements, Fixes and Support activities along with DevOps and SER team.
• Contributing to every release make sure its streamlined and Tested
• Contribution to continues improvement and delivery with best code coverages
• Flexible to shouldering new responsibilities & challenges
• Be a champion for modern application development practices and mentor team members towards them.
• Be well conversant with various automated testing tools and believe in test automation.
• Be a great team player and genuinely believe in solving challenges as a team
• Demonstrate experience developing modern responsive web applications
• Demonstrate experience of working in agile environments with tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence
• Explore alternatives and quickly build prototyping to validate ideas and help iterate concepts.
• Willing to be part of the company’s growth efforts and participate in experimentation, working on building prototypes, PoCs and accelerators to showcase solutioning options towards adopting new technology trends.

• End to end software development involving core Java, restful services and Spring Framework as a middle ware, Oracle SQL/SQL Server as back-end database and React UI as front-end
• Serve as an expert in core Java fundamentals with basic React/JavaScript development skills
• Hands on contribution to Spring Framework/Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, messaging services and restful web services

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience on responsive web applications design, development, and testing.
• Java 11+, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST APIs, Junit, PostgreSQL, Linux, Shell Script, Maven, SonarQube,
• Exceptional knowledge & hands on experience of Spring & Spring Boot, Java programming skills, experience designing and developing REST APIs and components, services etc
• Working experience or familiarity with API gateways like WSO2, Apigee, etc. REST, SOAP services, etc.
• Experience of Tests Driven Development, Unit testing practices, ideally Junit
• 8+ years of experience and proficiency in front-end languages such as JavaScript/Typescript
• 8+ years of practical, meaningful experience with front-end frameworks such as React
• Have knowledge and hands on experience on AWS/Google Cloud Service and in Dockers, Kubernetes, repositories/artifactory.
• Good understanding of advanced Java design pattern, solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms with robust analytical and problem solving skills
• Robust working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle), solid knowledge of UNIX/Linux including shell scripts
• Handson and Practical experience with containers (k8)
• Handson and Practical experience with pubsub, messaging architectures.
• Handson and Practical experience with serverless architectures.
• Handson and Practical experience with IAC terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with modern SDLC tools - Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift - is a plus and hands on experience in CI/CD.
• Effective communication, presentation, Ownership and collaboration skills
• Experience in practicing, and advocating for clean code principles such as test-driven development (TDD), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring
• Should be able to work independently and effectively as an Individual Contributor
• Must have worked on Agile Methodologies and should have a good understanding of various Agile phases
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to remote audiences, engineering teams and business owners.

Nice to have skills.

• Functional: Payment Industry overview, Payment processing, Real-time payments processing
• Shell Scripting is nice to have
• Change management process exposure
• Software and infra production promotion experience
• Test Automation Frameworks
• Moderate coding skills on Python.
• Experience in distributed system development.
• Cross-platform development in several CPU/operating system environments and network protocols.
• Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and technical innovation
• Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns
• Data stores, persistence, caching (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Hadoop tools, memcache etc)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.