Core Banking IT Systems Architect

Looking for an experienced Core Banking IT System Architect for our client in the banking sector.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to documentation (eg, SDD, TRRD), identify architectural improvements, and stay updated on IT infrastructure and solution best practices.

• Lead and participate in IT systems/infrastructure design, develop and maintain architecture roadmaps, and ensure alignment with governance.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Release Train Engineers to deliver technology solutions, and guide implementation of architectural principles.

• Define, track, and manage Non-Functional Requirements; coach teams on areas like SRE, monitoring, root cause identification, and technology best practices.

Key Competencies:

This is a list of key technologies and skills applied in Core Banking. Familiarity with most of them is expected:

• Hadoop
• Kafka
• Cloudera
• IBM MQ
• Oracle Exadata and RAC (Oracle
• Advanced network monitoring
• Kubernetes
• Defining Non-Functional requirements
• Candidates mist have previous Core Banking IT System Architect experience.

Familiarity with the following is considered an advantage:

• Temenos T24/Transact
• Platforms as a Service (Cloud-ready platform hosting)
• Database principles and concepts (Oracle preferred)
• Integration principles, technologies and concepts (OSB, MQ, WebLogic or similar)
• Operating systems (RedHat Enterprise Linux, or similar and Windows Server)
• Networking (CISCO)
• Load balancing technology (Citrix NetScaler/F5 or similar)
• Security (JWT, client certificates, and OpenID Connect)
• Microservices and containerization principles
• Agile methodology, practices and tools (SAFe preferred)
• Continuous integration and development pipelines (source code pipeline setup and support)
• Config as Code and Infrastructure as Code (Codify configuration management)

Location:

Consultant can be located anywhere in Finland, Denmark, Norway or Sweden. 50% onsite work in any of these locations is required with 50% remote work possible. Candidates must already be based in the Nordics.

Language: Fluent in English, both written and spoken