Sopra Banking Software - Senior Software Architect - Google Cloud Platform (12-17 yrs)

About the job

Company Description

SBS is a global financial technology company that's helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world.

SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societ Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS.

Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance.

With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia's Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.

Job Description :

What you will do

- Build software products for banking and financing institutions with R&D teams that are openly collaborative, are non-hierarchical, respect contributions and work with agility.

- Provide vision & leadership for the technology roadmap of our products.

- Understand product capabilities and strategize technology for its alignment with business objectives and maximizing ROI.

- Define technical software architectures and lead the development of frameworks.

- Engage end-to-end in product development, starting from business requirements to realization of product and to its deployment in production.

- Research, design, and implement the complex features being added to existing products and/or create new applications / components from scratch.

- Identify risks or opportunities associated with current or new technology use.

- Plan and execute PoC's as necessary.

- Continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology.

- Provide technical governance to product team to ensure quality and efficiency of solutions.

- Act as a mentor to team and reinforce organizational values and culture.

Total Experience Expected : 12-17 years

Minimum Qualifications :

- Bachelor or higher engineering degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent additional professional experience.

- 5 years of experience in delivering solutions from concept to production that are based on Java as an architect in global organizations.

- 12 years of industry experience in design, development, deployments, operations and managing non-functional perspectives of technical solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices and large solutions.

- Wide knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.

- Expertise in architecting, designing, and implementing microservices based cloud native solutions.

- Deep understanding of cloud technologies on one of the cloud platforms -AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud

- Good proficiency overlap with technologies like: Java8, RxJava, Kotlin, Golang, SpringBoot, SpringSecurity, Gitlab-CI, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Istio, NGINX, JMeter.

- Strong communicator with ability to collaborate cross-functionally, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

Desirable Skills & Qualifications :

- Good experience in development tools, CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience or knowledge of various kinds of NoSQL databases.

- Experience with Agile and/or SAFe practices

- Good knowledge of Project NFRs and design solutions considering limits of NFRs to make solutions efficient with minimal cost of development and infrastructure