Senior Solutions Architect

**Job Summary**:
**Salary**
S$12,500 - S$18,750 / Monthly

**Job Type**

**Seniority**

Senior

**Years of Experience**
At least 10 years

**Tech Stacks**
MVC API Gateway Rest API Docker Jenkins API Spring HyperV VMware Java JavaScript Maven

As a Senior Solutions Architect within the Solutions group (Pre Sales), your primary goal is to collaborate with clients in designing end-to-end solution architectures. Your expertise is instrumental in ensuring that conceptualized solutions translate into actionable realities. Operating with a client-centric approach, you adeptly engage in technical workshops and high-level sales presentations, utilizing your proficiency in crafting robust architectures.

Your capacity to distill intricate technical details and align them with tangible business objectives positions you as a pivotal figure in crafting innovative solutions. Your focus spans across security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability, and serviceability, ensuring comprehensive solutions meet client needs. Working closely with solutions engineers, you align client aspirations with tailored solutions, showcasing your leadership within the Solutions Engineering team and the broader Solutions Group.

In this role, you will lead technical workshops and demonstrate expertise in solution design, delivery, testing, and deployment, for banking clients within the Financial Services sector. Advising clients on enterprise architecture, you contribute to their overarching strategies. Serving as a trusted advisor, you collaborate with clients' Enterprise Architects to shape architectural vision and establish program roadmaps, managing expectations and negotiating solutions.

Whether you talk to the board of directors, department heads or engineering teams, you turn every red light green. You love to travel and stay abroad. You will join prospects in their exploration of Backbase products, that will help them to achieve their digital ambitions. As an all-round expert on digital transformations, you navigate through the full sales cycle, from doing technology deep dives and leading proof of concepts, to leading workshops and generating feedback. Your performance blows each prospect off its feet. And we do need a little extra more.

When we mention a getting-things-done mentality, you immediately recognize yourself. Not only do you feel comfortable talking business, you’re also a congenial companion during coffee breaks. And let’s not forget your organizing skills. Those skills, by the way, also come in handy when planning leisure time, because if we send you to the other end of the region and overload you with work, we do understand that you might want to loosen up afterward and explore the surroundings.

Who are you?
- You have 10+ years of work experience as a solutions architect for a leading product/platform in the financial services industry. However, a can-do mentality is of more importance than many years of the perfect experience;
- Your knowledge of the Java platform exceeds our expectations;
- You have experience with Spring, Maven and Jenkins;
- You have a demonstrable understanding of Micro-Services Architecture and are familiar are familiar with architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, event sourcing;
- You know JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns and principles of REST APIs;
- When we ask you about architectural frameworks, you easily dig up your knowledge and best practices;
- You have professionally worked with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks;
- You have experience with server virtualization and containers technology such as Docker, VMWare, HyperV;
- You have professionally used Integration Platforms, API Gateway, etc.
- You are smart and digital savvy. A true team player with a sense of humor, hands-on and self-motivated, able to drive progress and hit deadlines;
- Your strong interpersonal and communication skills ensure successful customer engagements across multiple teams & cultures
- You have excellent English speaking, writing and presentation skills, as well as a strong ability to persuade, inspire and motivate others;
- You have the ability to prioritize and plan effectively with a demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and in ambiguity. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and stay flexible and adaptable to growth and change.