Solution architect

Job Description
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Advise on technical best practice for Digital solutions from software selection through to technical architectures and implementation processes
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Advise on design and development throughout iterations of delivery from a technical perspective
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Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use in designing the solution
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Provide thought leadership and practical experience in the design and testing of the Digital solutions
Skill
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Logical and Physical Data modelling; Data Dictionaries
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Cluster and parallel computer architectures
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Programming in Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ JavaScript
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Hands-on experience of Java, Spring Boot, React, API technology
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Web applications servers (Apache HTTP Server & Tomcat, IIS, Websphere)
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End to end agile infrastructure architecture across all layers
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Service architecture - Experience of API and service-based architectures using SOAP, REST APIs, micro-services and utilising JSON for web or mobile applications
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Enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions including MongoDB, in-memory databases and caching solutions adopted for globally distributed Digital solutions
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CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre
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Cloud - PaaS/IaaS/SaaS – Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure
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Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX, XP
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Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN)
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High availability and contingency solutions