Java Architect / Solution Architect

Java Architect / Solution Architect

Salary:  1.00 - 1.00  Location: Cambridge

Type: Full Time  Postal/Zip Code: 02142

Job description

Job Role: Java Architect / Solution Architect 

Rate: Market Value

Based: Cambridge 

Role Profile: 

The Technical Architect will support the strategic evolution of my clients global distributed payments platform through the creation of first-class architectural, high-level and low-level designs. The successful applicant will provide technical leadership and hands-on support to the development teams as these designs are built.

Key duties: 

• Work with stakeholders to refine business requirements and translate these into system requirements and recommended options for delivery including designs and size estimates.

• Ensure designs are consistent with strategic enterprise architecture goals whilst remaining appropriate to the development methodology (usually Agile Scrum).

• Design, develop and help to maintain the Performance and Capacity Planning framework. Execute, analyse and present performance tests results.

• Ensure efficient knowledge-transfer of solutions with accurate and up-to-date documentation, demos and presentations where needed.

Experience:

• Extensive experience of design leadership - ideally with enterprise systems

• Solid industry experience of software (and ideally hardware) architecture, including J2EE, databases, clustering and load balancing, distributed file-systems, storage, virtualization, architecture and design patterns.

• Extensive experience of object oriented analysis and design.

• Good knowledge of web application security

• Experience of building performance and capacity models for IT systems which allow System performance and capacity bottlenecks to be identified and allow impact of change to be predicted.

• Hands on experience of using/developing performance testing tools and 'injector' type technology within a Web environment

• Experience of the financial industry

• Experience in good development practice (CI, unit testing, TDD, agile, etc)

• Experience of database design in large database systems.

Essential technical Knowledge: 

• Experienced Enterprise Java Developer - J2EE and multi-threaded J2SE

• SQL (Preferably Oracle or Sybase) including optimisation of queries

• Apache/Tomcat

• Source code control (Git)

• Unix (Preferably Sun Solaris and/or Oracle Enterprise Linux)

• UML

Desirable: 

• Perl

• CGI scripts

• Weblogic

• Virtualised Linux deployments

• Atlassian tool set

• Performance tools

• Oracle tools

To apply for the position, please apply directly to this advert. 

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