Solutions Architect - CREST New Technology

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

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The roleSolution Architect CREST New Technology
IT is at the core of Euroclears business providing continuous development assisting in delivering a cost efficient and highquality service to its customers. Currently the core business is run on HP NonStop Servers (Tandem). Communications infrastructure and message routing functionality are implemented on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Euroclear is starting to evaluate the migration of CREST from COBOL programs running on the HPE NonStop Guardian platform to new technology capable of running on a commoditised platform such as Linux.

Key technologies: Java OpenShift Databases (Oracle SQL Server) Kafka.

Responsibilities:

It is expected that this migration will be an incremental process over a period of years.

Our new technology will be Java based and use Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) for integration between the new migrated services and nonmigrated legacy CREST system. Platform independence of migrated services is required to allow running on OpenShift Linux environments.

Further responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Defining options and providing recommendations for migration from legacy to new event driven and service focused architecture working in collaboration with the Euroclear Enterprise Architecture team CREST application architects and other parties
• Delivering a coherent endtoend IT solution that meets both functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Ensuring:
  • that the IT solution fully aligns with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards
  • endtoend consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by for instance organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams
• Collaborating with security to ensure that our new solution meets security standards
• Establishing:
  • infrastructure requirements and collaborating with the infrastructure teams to deliver the Technical and Infrastructure design
  • guidelines patterns and standards for solutions architecture and design in new technology stack
  • prototypes / proof of concepts to prove the key components of proposed new architecture
  • estimation principles for phases of the migration program and for the proofofconcept exercises
• Leading the implementation of the prototypes and followon work
• Presenting proposed solution architecture and plans to Euroclear management customers & teammembers
• Acting as technical authority for the new solution under the new technical stack

Requirements:

Our next Solution Architect CREST New Technology will have demonstrable solutions architecture skills and experience alongside validated strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering inception budgeting architecture design development testing live implementation and post implementation support.

Technical skills:

• Strong experience in implementing Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) and modern architecture (for example service oriented architecture microservices architecture)
• Experience in:
  • leading the implementation of platformindependent and database independent applications
  • working with Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments
• We require our nextSolution Architect CREST New Technology to possessstrong:
  • analytical and systems architecture/design skills
  • database design skills in database technologies such as Oracle SQL Server etc.
  • EDA technology Kafka
  • commodity platform OpenShift containerisation skills
  • handson Object Oriented Design and Java programming skills

Soft skills:

• Have ability to motivate and enthuse colleagues and those you mentor coach & lead
• Be;
  • a stand out colleague and role model willing to participate in peer reviews and to be reviewed by peers
  • reliable selfmotivated and able to work without close management and supervision
• Possess inspiring communication and presentation skills to present proposals both orally and in writing
• The validated ability:
  • to complete work within agreed timescales
  • to identify problems and provide the most suitable solution(s)
  • to be flexible and demonstrate the ability to be able to deal with a dynamic environment
  • to supervise lead inspire and coach technical staff
  • take ownershipand accountability of project work under their control

Nice to have:

• Messaging Standards
  • ISO 15022 ISO 20022 and JSON
• Experience in Agile development.
• IBM MQ
• Angular framework
• HPE NonStop
• Knowledge of the Settlement systems (CREST)