Enterprise / Solution Architect at a Top Tier (2) Commercial Bank - Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited - Our client, a top tier (2) Commercial Bank, is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise / Solution Architect

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Our client requires the service a highly skilled enterprise architect/solution architect with Fin-Tech experience. The successful candidate will be expected to catalogue, develop, coordinate, communicate, maintain and enforce the overall enterprise architectural models to adequately perform the organizations business.

Responsibilities

• Assess overall alignment between business and technology roadmaps.
• Evaluate solutions alignment with the end user experience.
• Create, own and maintain the Technologies Architectural Artifacts (building blocks, models, governance, architecture and unified roadmaps, etc.).
• Collaborate on the creation and maintenance of the enterprise business capability model.
• Form cross-functional teams (Network, Operations, Development, Data Warehouse, Quality, etc.) to facilitate the creation of optimal architectures which align to the architecture plan.
• Provide technical leadership for various business units and technology groups.
• Apply analytical thought processes to quickly understand technical challenges discovered during the life-cycle of the initiative.
• Evaluate how security impacts the design & development process of various solutions.
• Communicate often with the business units and explain the value of technical architectures, solutions, and strategies.
• Lead the documentation and analysis of the current state of all of the IT environments and technology landscape.
• Collaborate on defining future state architectures and develop gap plans.
• Collaborate extensively with IT Leaders , Product Managers and technical delivery teams to ensure alignment of best practices and standards.
• Mentor and guide other Engineers(software,data,network,etc.).
• Presenting architecture and strategy to all layer of the company from executives to individual contributors

Qualifications & Skills Required

• First Degree in Computer Science,or related discipline preferred.
• At least 3 years’ experience working as an enterprise or solution architect designing and implementing large-scale systems and databases.
• At least 5 years’ experience as a developer.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business professionals.
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations and lead cross-functional teams.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application integration, including SOA, Microservices, ETL environments and an understanding of integration considerations such as process orchestration, custom data integration, and master data management.
• Thorough knowledge of business function and in-depth knowledge of business operations, objectives, and strategies.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, EACOE, etc.).
• Previous development experience in multiple disciplines (Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, Java, HTML, AJAX, JSON, DDL, SQL, NoSQL, or relevant open source platforms).
• Deep understanding of design patterns, principles,and frameworks.
• Working knowledge of UI/UIX design principles.
• Strong understanding on network architecture, designs, and protocols.
• Extensive experience integration with 3rd party products (both business and technical).
• Experience with mobile applications and how they interact with various back end architectures.
• A good understanding of the architectural principals of cloud-based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure, and application servers.
• Strong knowledge of the security operations, standards & issues involved in multi-tier, multi-tenant web applications.
• Track record of being proactive, identifying gaps, making constructive suggestions and follow through to resolution.
• Proven ability to creatively problem-solve for various types of issue in multiple disciplines.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership

Application Closing Date
30th January, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated Resume to: [email protected] and [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.