Solution Architect

Indigo Beam • Houston, TX

10d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Solution Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end-to-end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well-designed and aligned with client’s standards and reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for client’s Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement
• 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
• Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years' experience in trading environments.
• Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
• Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.
• Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Trading picture.
• Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or technical debt.
• Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
• Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
• Exposure to OpenLink Endur, SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentications
• Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy on-premise systems.
• Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
• 3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
• Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security.
• Experience with diverse data types: big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK.
• Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
• Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
• CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and Technical Leadership
• Reference Model Stewardship
• Technology Foresight
• Standards Alignment
• Community Engagement

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees