Job Brief   

Your responsibilities include solutions across multiple technologies in alignment with business expected outcomes, design, and architectural standards while meeting quality, performance, security, and business requirements.

VentureDive Overview

Founded in 2012 by veteran technology entrepreneurs from MIT and Stanford, VentureDive is the fastest growing technology company in the region that develops and invests in products and solutions that simplify and improve the lives of people worldwide. We aspire to create a technology organization and an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region that is recognized as second to none in the world.

Knowledge and Skills:

BFS TAO – Architect
The Architect is accountable for proactively and holistically leading enterprise responses to disruptive forces by identifying and analyzing the execution of change toward the desired business vision and targeted outcomes. In addition, the architect is responsible for taking a practical approach to supporting the business. Business support starts and ends with a focus on delivering signature-ready, actionable recommendations to business leaders, so they can adjust policies and projects to achieve target business outcomes.
We are looking for an experienced, practicing architect with in-depth experience in Java/JEE technologies, .NET, and Microsoft Technologies, and exposure to JavaScript frameworks, with at least 9-13 years of IT industry experience and sound knowledge in software development and architecture. In addition, the architect should understand new frameworks and platform trends in Cloud Computing, API Management, Microservices, and distributed systems (Incl. Kubernetes, Dockers, and Kafka).
The architect's role is an overarching one and spans various engagements. The candidate should establish a good working relationship with the Customer, define a roadmap/strategy, and drive initiatives and growth.

Skills Required
Java/J2EE, .NET, Cloud AWS/Azure/OCP/PCF/GCP, Micro Services, Spring Boot, API Management, Microservices, distributed systems, Kubernetes, Dockers, Kafka, DevOps/DevSecOps, Angular/React, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL), No SQL Databases (Mongo, Cassandra, Redis)

Roles & Responsibilities
 

• Responsible for multiple technology capabilities to deliver across all business lines for Fortune 50 Banking and Financial Customers.
• Hands-on Experience required to work on POCs, and POTs across multiple technologies
• Ensures various architecture principles are translated into solution architecture and then into engineering products/solutions for implementation
• Ensures non-function requirements such as performance requirements and availability requirements are designed and delivered
• Work with the Customer Enterprise Architecture teams and CXO Teams for critical decisions for strategic investment in Technology.
• Assesses and evaluates emerging technology capabilities for compatibility, scalability, and viability.
• Educate the Customers on the technology trends and guide them in adopting them into their organization.
• Defines a vision that traverses the technology stack from User-Experience / Customer-Experience, data-driven strategic analysis and customer insights, cloud provisioning, and embedding digitally enabled scalable architecture
• Any Cloud Certification
• Ability to challenge the Technology solutions provided by various Vendors and in-house teams to propose an optimal solution
• Optimize the Technology assets by the consolidation of existing applications and remove redundancies and cost saves
• Ability to identify the hotspots in the current application landscape and provide solutions to rectify
• Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional problems and deal comfortably with abstraction/fuzzy issues resulting in a robust, highly-scalable, and well-architected solution.
• Ability to provide design direction on large multi-tiered/complex applications & Participate in RFP/RFQ /Proactive proposals – business development activities.
• Help teams deliver robust solutions consistently and guide engineering teams toward a standard methodology/standardization.
• The architect should be able to produce various design documents, such as software architecture documents, security architecture documents, interface specifications, etc.
• Ensures Code Design and its Quality for Application across the portfolio & Participates in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions & drives DevSecOps roll-out.
• Help Customers in their technology roadmap, Digital Journey and share industry views.

Mandatory Domain Experience (One or more of the following areas)

• Cards and Payments
• Retail and wholesale Banking
• Capital Markets
• Investment Banking
• Wealth Management

What we look for beyond required skills

In order to thrive at VentureDive, you

…are intellectually smart and curious

…have the passion for and take pride in your work

…deeply believe in VentureDive’s mission, vision, and values

…have a no-frills attitude

…are a collaborative team player

…are ethical and honest

Are you ready to put your ideas into products and solutions that will be used by millions?

You will find VentureDive to be a quick pace, high standards, fun and a rewarding place to work at. Not only will your work reach millions of users world-wide, you will also be rewarded with competitive salaries and benefits. If you think you have what it takes to be a VenDian, come join us ... we're having a ball!