R&D Architecture Software Consultant Architect

SBS is a global financial technology company that’s helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia’s Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent data structures & algorithms skills with exposure to digital transformation and digital technologies
• Strong communicator with ability to collaborate, build relationships, and support in achieving broader organizational goals
• Prior experience as an Architect, building solutions, ensuring the security aspects of the product.
• Good exposure to working with large enterprise-grade components
• Good experience and understanding of working in an agile environment
• Good understanding of DevOps processes (CI/CD pipeline)
• Self-starter who can take initiative and get things done with minimal guidance.
• Prior experience in Banking or the finance domain is a plus, but not necessary.

Role and Responsibilities

• 12+ years overall experience into IT with 4+ years in solution designing
• Good experience with agile software development in Java, JavaScript
• Experience configuring, administering, and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, GitLab, and Jenkins, scripting, and Python
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience in AWS SDK CLI, Code deploy, and other services
• Contributing to defining product architecture roadmap and supporting end-to-end delivery of the product releases & communication with different stakeholders
• Build software products for banking and financing institutions with R&D teams that are openly collaborative, non-hierarchical, respect contributions, and work with agility
• Enable, empower, and encourage teams for continuous improvement of technology and processes
• Challenging and supporting people and engineering practices to improve the quality of the product
• Supporting the governance of the product team to ensure the quality and efficiency of solutions
• Act as a mentor to the team and reinforce organizational values and culture
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Exposure on defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for engineering operation
• Monitoring the processes during the entire product lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement, and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

Total Experience Expected: 11-15 years

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher engineering degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent additional professional experience.
• Hands-on experience in delivering solutions based on Java and open-source technologies as an engineer in global organizations.
• Hands-on experience with Java 8 or higher, Spring, Spring batch, MongoDB or PostgreSQL, microservices architecture, Reactive programming, Redis (caching), Angular (GUI), and Cloud computing.

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