Solutions Architect

City of Edinburgh Source: WhatJobs

£70,000–£90,000

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Role: Solution Architect

Looking for a resource who can work at least 2 days to client location in Edinburgh.

No Sponsorship will be Provided.

Work as part of API Design and analysis team with responsibility for API Design, aligned to value streams.
The solution architect is responsible for analysis of existing system and defining the API contract.
Prepare Design Document and presentation for the stakeholders.
Work with Global Enterprise/Solution Architects to review end-to-end technical design.
Review/Ensure the technical design is technically coherent, future proof, compliant with technology standards and regulatory obligations.
Identify delivery risk issues, formulate preventive actions or corrective measures, and timely elevate major project risks & issues to senior management.
Provide professional consultancy/support immediately for application teams queries/requests.

APD (API Product Design) and ATD (API Technical Design) documentation per API required to support dedicated Value Stream outcomes.
Deliver reliable, robust, resilient and secure software solutions meeting strict operational specifications on a timely basis.
Define application data and resource model such that the operations and relationships between resources are easily understood.
Collaboration on QA test case generation to support efficient and timely testing of APIs.
Ongoing support to Engineering teams for resolving queries during PI lifecycle.
Work with SAPI / Platform teams to ensure analysis is validated against system constraints/future states/standards.
Regularly attend the API Product Design Working Group to ensure product level design decisions are consistent across Value streams.

University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, particularly with .NET framework, API development and microservices (.NET core, WCF, C#, RESTful).
Experience with APIs, SOAP, Microservices, SQL, Integration Patterns.
Understanding of RabbitMQ.
Experience designing APIs and microservices using DDD principles.
Knowledge or experience in Enterprise Integration Platform (EIP) and API design; experience on ESB tools (RabbitMQ).
Strong knowledge of software design patterns, cloud computing; experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker).
Experience with Azure cloud technologies, Azure APIM.
Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.
Strong analytical, design, and problem solving skills.