Technical Solution Architect at Longbridge Technologies Limited

Longbridge Technologies Limited - At LONGBRIDGE, by offering competent management and a distinctive approach, we strive to position businesses for sustainable growth. This is driven by our core objective which is focused on creating and sustaining growth for individuals and enterprises through innovation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Solution Architect

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Job Role

• The technology architect will be to develop, implement, and maintain technology and solution architecture for Bank’s Information System.
• He/she will be responsible for defining the overall technical design of business applications.
• S/he will act as technical lead, overseeing IT assignments that are aimed at improving the business, and ensuring all parts of the technical components run smoothly.
• He/she will be involved in the entire system development life cycle and must understand all aspects of each system, from both a business and technical point of view. This means having a full working knowledge of technologies such as Windows, Linux, RDBMS, Infrastructure, Network, Design Patterns, Web, Mobile, Business Process Modelling (BPM), Cloud integration, Blockchain, Machine Learning as well as knowledge of multiple programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Scala, Go, Shell, PowerShell, Perl, Python)
• The Bank expects the Technology Architect to be creative with a strong interest in technology, capable of shaping and delivering innovative technology solutions of heterogeneous components.

Duties

• Hands-on experience on software development and ability to manage complex programs.
• Provide system architecture leadership & quality assurance support to the Bank focusing on complex & innovative proposals & solutions
• Lead the development of system architecture for robust, reliable and high-performance applications, taking into account functional and technical requirements
• Define implement and manage the solution architecture and supporting toolset required to build and test complex applications in an efficient and rapid manner
• Advise on technologies & tools selection, and helping in sizing transformation programs
• Architect complex IT solutions based on emerging technologies for digital transformation
• Handle request on architecture development for new and existing applications
• Participate in software selection process
• Any other duties as may be assigned by management.

Qualification / Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant degree from a recognized University, a Master’s degree in a relevant field or a recognized professional qualification in lieu.
• 10+ years of solid development and solution architecture experience in distributed platforms
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, Scala or Java in a Linux/Windows data center environment
• Experience with AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Experience leading high performing development teams
• Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations.
• Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques and industry trends.
• Deep knowledge of REST, Web Services and Microservices space.
• Knowledge and strong experience with Cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Knowledge and strong experience with DevOps, Pipelining, Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Github, Archiva, etc.), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticBeanstalk)
• Knowledge and experience with modern messaging technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AMQP, AWS SQS)
• Knowledge and experience with Big Data platforms (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Ambari, Flume, Ranger)
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience in managing service level agreement with application service providers
• Ability to communicate and function in a culturally diverse and change oriented setting;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of the Bank's other working languages is an added advantage
• Willingness to travel and to work long hours where required in order to achieve the Bank's objectives;

Application Closing Date
5th June, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.