IT Architect/Java/Finance

Endeavour recruitment has a fantastic contract opportunity for an Experience Architect to join a large client in the Financial Sector.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Contribute to and enhance the IT architecture.
- Design IT solutions that meet business requirements in line with the IT architectural principles.
- Write functional and technical specifications of applications or data
- Write technical documentation for tender procedures.
- Work with colleagues and users to collect requirements, analyse and evaluate proposals, conduct negotiations and implement specifications according to defined architectural standards.
- Manage the Test environment for all applications.
- Deployment of applications into the Test environment.
- Integration of applications, Middleware and components.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- University or college degree in computer engineering, computer science, physics or mathematics or a related discipline or
- Professional experience and qualification in IT architecture methodologies

CORE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

- Excellent JEE Skills (including Spring, JSP)
- Good Unix Scripting skills
- Good integration experience

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

- Strong knowledge of state-of-the-art IT methodologies and tools.
- Good knowledge of SQL, XML, LDAP and SSO solutions
- Proven ability in translating technological issues in a business context
- Identifying technical solutions for business requirements.
- Experience in team/group facilitation, project management and training would be an advantage

VERY GOOD ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

- Ability to work under pressure and to deliver to agreed deadlines.
- Proven ability to generate a range of possible, also innovative, solutions and to assess the implications of these solutions.
- Good interpersonal skills, in particular communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work in a team and co-ordinate own activities with others.
- Very good command of English with proven drafting ability.

Please get in touch for further details.