Applications & Integrations Architect at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead in solution design activities.
• Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
• Develop, implement and guard architecture principles and development standards. 
• Identify and recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions/systems.
• Lead in elicitation and documentation of non-functional requirements.
• Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend Design Patterns and guide their application / use in delivering integration solutions in the bank. 
• Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of re-using it for future solutions. Review the existing integrations landscape and provide/develop plans for closure of any new or existing/known issues.
• Deployment Architectures - Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions. 
• Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance / load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.

Skills & Experience

• At least 7 years’ experience in Technology within the domains of Software development and solutions architecture.
• At least 7 years of Integration hands on experience using enterprise tools.
• Hands on development experience in service decomposition, solution design and implementation based on microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations and priorities. 
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
• Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP/HTTP, REST and JMS/MQ protocols.
• Solid software development experience using Object Oriented Programming languages.
• Deep expertise on cloud technologies and concepts.
• Deep expertise in various relational databases – Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices.
• Integration knowledge of event-based streaming and integration, pub-sub, and request-reply, synchronous-asynchronous patterns.
• Working knowledge of API security - authentication, authorization, policies etc.
• Experience in performance planning and execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the solutions/services for optimal performance. 
• Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture - infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security.