Senior Technical Architect_3007

The primary purpose of the role is to undertake complex technical assessments for java based application development and enhancement to ensure the solution is fit for purpose and in line with industry practices and AAL standards.

Role Specific

• Take overall responsibility for architecture and design for complex java based applications to ensure that the solution meets enterprise architecture, business and AAL requirements.
• Lead technical assessments for complex applications and integrations to ensure optimisation of resources, adherence to IT standards and regulatory requirements.
• Solve high-level, systemic problems involving scalability, performance, security, and the interaction between different components and systems (POCs, Code examples, Prototypes, application designs, coding standards).
• Support cost optimisation through analysis of deployment architectures – understanding IAC, Clustering, virtualisation and scalability of resources along with performace profiling and tuning.
• Assess security risks across application designs and perform Threat Modelling.
• Support and provide expert technical advice to team members for complex builds and production issues.
• Excellent communication and skills to effect ogrnaisational change.
• Strong ability to infuence others and drive outcomes.
• Strong ownership of problems working across development teams, risk & auditors, cyber, and business analysts to ensure technical implementation aligns with requirements and controls.
• Work proactively with business stakeholders during intial business case and concept phase to support scoping and prioritisation in line with business needs.
• Identify and analyse emerging trends in both business and technology to provide input and consultation for upcoming development and enhancement initiatives.
• Provide expert technical input and advice into development of business strategies, technical strategies and system architectures, contribute to the business planning of the division.
• Lead organisational strategic initiatives from a technology perspective and support development of artefacts which could bring significant business benefits.

REQUIREMENTS

• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, benchmarks and measurements.
• Strong understand of IT controls, development standards and practices and how to rollout and uplift across a number of languages and projects.
• Expert undersanding of secruity concepts across threat modelling (STRIDE), SAST, SCA, and DAST.
• Extensive experience in Java development (J2EE, Spring), Web services (SOAP, XML, REST),  Web development (Angular, HTML, JavaScript, JSP ORM (Hibernate) and business rules engines.
• Significant experience in working on structured ‎‎(Iterative or Agile Scrum) SDLC process‎es.
• Leadership level design skills in OO Design, UML, domain modelling etc.
• Understand CI/CD techniques and be able to apply across a toolchain including GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Familiariaty with cloud providers (AWS/Azure), containers, spring boot, and container platforms such as Kuberneties or OpenShift.
• Understanding of licence management and cost optimisation as it relates to software deployment.
• Experience in delivering software projects into production environments in Insurance or Financial Services organisations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to recognise, avert, manage and escalate conflicts to enable effective and timely resolution in accordance with organisational processes.
• Ability to manage complex negotiations to ensure mutual agreement between parties is achieved. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence.
• Skills to summarise and be able to present a concise message to relevant stakeholders.

Area

Competency*

Rate Skill Importance

1=aware;
2=basic; 3=intermediate
    /experienced; 4=advanced; 5=expert

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Technical
(max of 5)

• Java development (J2EE, Spring), Web services (SOAP, XML, REST),  Web development (Angular, HTML, JavaScript, JSP ORM (Hibernate)
• CI/CD,  Jenkins, Ansible
• OO Design, UML, domain modelling etc.

4

4

4

Functional
(max of 5)

• Insurance Domain
• Policy life cycle

3

3

Behaviours***

• Customer & Market Excellence
• Collaborative Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Trust

4

4

4

4

Productivity
(max of 3)

• Time management
• Task Prioritisation
• Innovation

4

4

4

Communication

• Written and Verbal communication in English

4