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Job Description

As a Solution Architect, you'll be a key technical leader providing end‑to‑end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well‑designed and aligned with Client's standards and reference architecture.You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture and Technical Leadership
  • Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
  • Lead in your area of expertise and play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
  • Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
  • Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
  • Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with Client's architectural standards.
  • Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
  • Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
  • Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
• Reference Model Stewardship
  • Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling.
  • Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
• Technology Foresight
  • Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions.
• Standards Alignment
  • Stay informed of developments in IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
• Community Engagement
  • Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
  • Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.

What We Need From You

Industry Knowledge

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Trading IT
• Minimum of 10 years' experience with OpenLink Endur v14+
• Knowledge of the end‑to‑end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement

Technical Architecture & Design

• 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
• Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day‑to‑day technical decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years' experience in trading environments.
• Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
• Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.

Problem Solving & Innovation

• Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Trading picture.
• Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade‑offs or technical debt.

Desirable Technologies & Programming

• Expert in one or more of the programming languages Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python with Cloud Platform Development on Azure or AWS.
• Expert in one or more front‑end development technologies, specifically React and Micro‑frontend.
• Expert in one or more data development technologies (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores, etc).
• Expert in JVS and OpenComponents.
• Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.

Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM)

• Hands‑on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including all Managers, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling.

Azure Platform & Cloud

• Hands‑on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations / re‑platforming of legacy on‑premise systems.
• Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, microservices, cloud applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh).

Data Architecture, Data Management & Diverse Data Types

• 3+ years experience in Data Architecture including logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
• Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security.
• Experience with diverse data types: big data, high‑velocity streaming, IoT, low‑latency event triggers, longitudinal time series.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.

Azure Services & Integration

• Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event‑driven architecture (Event Hub, Event Bus, Kafka), ELK.
• Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
• Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.

CI/CD & DevOps

• 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.

Agile & Engineering Standards

• Practical agile experience in both start‑up and enterprise environments.
• Lead the engineering community to follow Engineering Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
• Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives.
• Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.

Documentation & Coordination

• Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT solutions, documenting in High‑Level Design documents.
• Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external.