Role overview:
We currently have a requirement for an Application Security Solution Architect for a contact role within the Privileged Access Management (PAM) Team of one of the top names in Financial Services.
Our client is seeking a skilled and experienced Application Architect to join their PAM team to be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and high-performance application design solutions that align with global initiative aimed at uplifting Privileged Access Management controls and capabilities in the organisation.
Start Date: ASAP
Term: 6 Months
Location: Remote (UK).
Role Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Key Deliverables:
- Managing the end-to-end solution design and responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns.
- Alongside the creation of high-level designs, will be required to record key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
- Presenting and sharing solutions to design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders.
- Providing technical thought leadership and direction to aligned project workstream and supporting the wider PAM Design team in producing designs and working solutions.
Essential Skills:
- Cybersecurity expertise, including significant experience and proven technical depth within:
- Software Application design and development
- Identity & access management
- Cryptography
- Infrastructure
- Data
- Cloud
- Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level.
- Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes.
- Extensive experience in Application Design and API development.
- Strong knowledge of the architecture and design of Microservices:
- Understanding of Microservice orchestration and choreography.
- Mapping user stories to Microservices.
- Experience of working in a large Enterprise and Regulatory environments.
- Experience with Restful API Design, development and integration.
- Recent Experience working in Financial Services.
- Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management
- Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation
- Understanding of front-end technologies such as React and Angular
- Proficiency in programming languages such as NodeJS/JavaScript.
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and automation tools.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes pod and container orchestration.
- Experience with cloud native architectures.
- BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
- Proficiency in Java.
- Experience with Cloud Platforms like GCP or AWS.
- Understanding of database technologies (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc).
- TOGAF.
Please note this requirement does not support overseas working and is Inside IR35.
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