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 support.

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

• As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for creating the Architecture and Design of the applications on the Cloud Platform. You are expected to have practical architecture depth to meet the business and technical requirements and expected to have hands on Engineering Experience.
• You are expected to create the Design and Architecture blueprint for the multi-region, highly available applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• You will be responsible for the design and implementation of various non-functional requirements like Security, Scalability, Observability, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection.
• You will provide the technical leadership to the Engineering teams and deliver the application releases.
• You will work with the SRE and support teams to help bring Architectural improvements.

Your skills and experience

• Expert level Cloud Architecture experience at the Solution Design and implementation level.
• Overall 15+ years of hands-on coding and engineering experience with at least 5 years of experience in designing and building applications on Cloud Platforms.
• Cloud Certifications for GCP (Preferred) or AWS or Azure.
• Well versed with the Well Architected Framework pillars like Security, Availability, Reliability, Operational Excellence, Cost Optimization.
• Hands on experience in Cloud Services like Kubernetes, API gateways, Load Balancers, Cloud Storage Services, VPCs, NAT Gateways, Cloud SQL databases, VMs and compute services like Cloud Run.
• Hands on development experience in developing applications using Core Java, Sprint Boot, REST APIs, Databased like Oracle, MongoDB, Apache Kafka.
• Good knowledge about Frontend technologies like JavaScript, React.js, TypeScript.
• Experience in designing multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions and achieving the Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Experience in building highly available, low latency and high-volume applications, performance testing and tuning.
• Good knowledge about Microservices architecture.
• Working knowledge DevOps tools like Jenkins/ GitHub actions, Terraform, Helm Chart.
• Experience in building application Observability using tools like Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic and creating SLO dashboards.
• Good understanding of security principle like encryption techniques, handling security vulnerabilities, and building solutions to prevent DDoS attacks.

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.