Senior Solution Architect – .NET & Azure Cloud – Banking

Senior Solution Architect – .NET & Azure Cloud – Banking Client – Brussels

Duration: 1 year freelance contract

Rate: Flexible

Hybrid Working – 8 days onsite per month in Brussels

Role Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end architecture solutions for IT initiatives, ensuring they meet functional, non-functional, and security requirements.
• Collaboration: Work with requirement owners, domain architects, and IT engineers to build high-quality solutions.
• Integration: Bridge the gap between Enterprise Architecture and IT delivery teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and domain target architectures.
• Community Contribution: Develop reusable solution patterns and building blocks and actively participate in the evolution of Solution Architecture and Software Engineering practices.
• Technology Expertise: Apply hands-on technology and delivery experience to define domain target architectures and roadmaps.
• Knowledge Sharing: Engage in communities of practice with other architects to share standard methodologies and lessons learned.

Profile Requirements

• Experience: Extensive experience in the IT industry, particularly as a solution architect on large-scale transformation projects.
• Agile and DevOps: Experience with large-scale agile projects and DevOps practices, including CI/CD. Knowledge of agile working at scale and methods such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be beneficial.
• Architectural Skills: Proficiency in Event Driven and Service-based architectures, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
• Technical Knowledge:
• Experience in .Net/AzureCloud
• Familiarity with integration and data technologies, and experience with front-end frameworks like Angular is advantageous.
• Complex Problem Solving: Ability to handle complex systems and problems across functions, locations, and organizations.
• Autonomy: Capable of conducting architectural analysis and providing pragmatic suggestions with minimal mentorship and know when to escalate.
• Strategic and Technical Balance: Ability to work on high-level strategic documents and zoom in on technical implementation challenges.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical abilities to break down complex problems and provide actionable solutions.
• Pragmatism: Focus on delivering fit-for-purpose results using a pragmatic approach.
• Innovation and Change: Identify the need for change and propose innovative solutions to improve IT delivery processes.
• Communication: Strong communication skills to advocate for architectural recommendations to project teams and senior management.
• Relationship Management: Ability to build positive relationships.
• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. Open Agile Architecture or TOGAF) is a plus.
• Financial Services: Experience in the Financial Services industry, a good understanding of collateral, and the related regulatory environments is beneficial.
• Language Skills: Proficiency in English is required.
• This role offers the chance to define a significant impact on IT landscape while working in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Please do send across to me the most up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements