About the Position

Solution Architect

Lebanon

About the Job

The Job in Short

As a Solution Architect, it’s your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, you are equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops, pre-sales efforts, and in board-level sales presentations. Having earned your stripes in designing scalable web & mobile-based platforms, you have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.

To the development team, you are the vital mainstay during processes of implementation, being a hands-on technology leader. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen feel for their needs. So besides being a great technologist, you are also a considerate companion who delivers remarkable results on a continuous basis.

Responsibilities

Translate customer requirements into a distinguished design.
Ensure security, performance, scalability, and reliability for a great user experience.
Provide guidance and oversight to your team.
Partner closely with engineering leads to design, build, and run scalable solutions.
Create detailed technical architecture assets.
Work with the QA lead and DevOps to shape the end-to-end SDLC.
Ensure that implementations meet non-functional requirements.
Elevate delivery hub practices by creating technical blueprints, solution accelerators, and ways of working assets.

Requirements

Professionally worked with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks.
Knowledgeable in architectural frameworks and best practices.
Experience with CI/CD practices and platforms.
Experience with scalable Web application development and Mobile App delivery.
Demonstrable understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Micro-Services Architecture.
Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns, and REST APIs (OpenAPI).
Considerable full-stack development experience.
Excellent knowledge of the Java platform.
Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.
Strong leadership skills with a proactive approach.
Self-sufficient as a Solutions Architect and able to manage clients/stakeholders.
Broad, operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers, and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment.

Nice to Have

Experience creating solutions for financial services (especially banking).
Familiarity with cloud-native architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, event sourcing.
Experience with server virtualization and containers technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Solution Architecture experience on Azure/AWS Cloud.
Professionally used Integration Platforms and API Gateways.

We Offer

Opportunity to work in a leading fintech company.
Travel opportunities to spend time on-site during the inception phase and when providing training and workshops.

About the Company

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