Platform Solutions Architect (GCP, SDLC) – Bank – London

Platform Solutions Architect (GCP, SDLC) – Bank – London
Day rate: £650 – £750 inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Start: ASAP
Hybrid: 3 days on site

My banking client is looking for a Platform Solution architect on a contract basis. They want an engineering expert with an agile mindset who is accountable for high-quality delivery of the software across all phases of the SDLC. They possess deep understanding and experience of driving enterprise-level modern architecture, robust software engineering practices and cloud adoption. They also collaborate with senior clients across technology and business domains and wider delivery and consulting teams to achieve business outcomes.
Your Impact:
* Understand financial services clients’ business outcomes and help define future/evolutionary architecture (e.g. distributed enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions & products), transition states, technology choices and operating model
* Help to drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation to enable accelerated growth initiatives and best-in-class customer experiences
* Rearchitect client monoliths into highly robust, scalable microservices-based digital platforms
* Contribute towards our best in class engineering practices & initiatives, mentor and inspire a diverse and highly motivated engineering talent
* Represent in industry forums and platforms
Designing and building solutions that transform our clients into top tech firms will be what drives you. As a platform Solution architect you will relish the role of technical expert across software design and architecture, bringing with you high engineering standards, leadership and motivational skills.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture
* Experience in leading large-scale, complex, and distributed applications development of Cloud-native solutions (GCP)
* Excellent knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc.
* Software development background of large-scale distributed systems with exposure to multiple languages (like Java, C#, Go, Scala, Python etc.)
* Hands-on experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Node.js
* Experience with/exposure to frontend technology frameworks like React, Angular etc
* Experience in API styles such as Async API, REST, SOAP, GraphQl, gRPC. Understanding of the various data solutions (like OLAPs, OLTP, graph, no-SQL etc.) and respective applications.
* Containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc.
* DevOps/automation experience (CI, CD, Observability, Aggregated Logging & Engineering Metrics)
* Quality Engineering (e.g., Test Pyramid, Automated Testing etc.)
* Non-functional testing (e.g., performance, accessibility, multilingual, multi-device etc.)

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements