R&D Consultant Architect

SBS is a global financial technology company that's helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia's Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.

What you will do

1.  Build software products for banking and financing institutions with R&D teams that are openly collaborative, are non-hierarchical, respect contributions and work with agility. 
2. Provide vision & leadership for the technology roadmap of our products. Understand product capabilities and strategize technology for its alignment with business objectives and maximizing ROI. 
3. Define technical software architectures and lead the development of frameworks. 
4. Engage end-to-end in product development, starting from business requirements to realization of product and to its deployment in production. 
5. Research, design, and implement the complex features being added to existing products and/or create new applications / components from scratch. 
6. Identify risks or opportunities associated with current or new technology use. Plan and execute PoC's as necessary. 
7. Continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology. 
8. Provide technical governance to product team to ensure quality and efficiency of solutions. 
9. Act as a mentor to team and reinforce organizational values and culture. 

Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor or higher engineering degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent additional professional experience. 
2. 5 years of experience in delivering solutions from concept to production that are based on Java as an architect in global organizations. 
3. 12 years of industry experience in design, development, deployments, operations and managing non-functional perspectives of technical solutions. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

1. Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices and large solutions.
2. Wide knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
3. Expertise in architecting, designing, and implementing microservices based cloud native solutions.   
4. Deep understanding of cloud technologies on one of the cloud platforms –AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud 
5. Good proficiency overlap with technologies like: Java8, RxJava, Kotlin, Golang, SpringBoot, SpringSecurity, Gitlab-CI, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Istio, NGINX, JMeter. 
6. Strong communicator with ability to collaborate cross-functionally, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals. 

Desirable Skills & Qualifications

1. Good experience in development tools, CI/CD pipelines. 
2. Experience or knowledge of various kinds of NoSQL databases. 
3. Experience with Agile and/or SAFe practices
4. Good knowledge of Project NFRs and design solutions considering limits of NFRs to make solutions efficient with minimal cost of development and infrastructure

Level Changed from 3B to 4A - AK

Secondary Location:Noida Campus

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All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.