Senior Software Architect

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom newscientist - Jobboard Full time

At New Scientist - Jobboard, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Architect to lead our Integration Services within Common Platform Engineering. This role is part of the Kafka as a Service project, where we provide a platform with associated tooling, support, and governance to enable teams to use Kafka within their applications.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities, including the design, acquisition, and deployment of hardware, software, and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team. They will work with a wide range of application teams to support their adoption and continued use of Kafka.

The key responsibilities of this role include:

  • Serving as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and providing direction for all firm-mandated controls and compliance initiatives
  • Ensuring that all integration of functions meets business goals
  • Defining necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
  • Recommending product customization for system integration
  • Identifying problem causality, business impact, and root causes
  • Exhibiting knowledge of how our own specialty area contributes to the business and applying knowledge of competitors, products, and services
  • Advising and mentoring junior team members
  • Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel, or facilitating services
  • Appropriately assessing risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct, and business practices, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications for this role include:

  • Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment
  • Experience of the following technologies: Kafka Ecosystem (Confluent distribution preferred), Kubernetes and Openshift, Java, Python, Ansible
  • Consistently demonstrating clear and concise written and verbal communication
  • Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities, and related reporting to identify best practices
  • Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
  • Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams
  • Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
  • Proven track record of operational process change and improvement

Education: Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience, Master's degree preferred

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Systems & Engineering

Time Type: Full time



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