Senior Mobile Architect - Banking job in England

Senior Mobile Architect - Banking

An exciting opportunity exists for a Senior Mobile Architect at a leading bank. Our client is currently working on a leading digital transformation with the hopes of transforming their digital capabalities, driving innovation and delivering products in ever shortening cycles to help drive the continuous improvement of processes.

Location: London/ Work from home

Duration: 6 months rolling

Daily rate: Markets rates INSIDE IR35

Key Responsibilities:

Proactive collaboration in the project team to help develop the product using your experience to help guide the team through the whole development lifecycle
Setting strategic architectural direction and demonstrating adherence to enterprise architecture
Ensuring governance requirements are captured, and audit requirements met. Demonstrating adherence to controls
Hands on with Planning, estimating, contributing to the architecture, coding, development
Refactoring and continuous improvements of the code and processes is vital
Ensuring that technical decisions and information is communicated through the global team
Leading Threat Modelling of key use cases. Ensuring that risks are identified and mitigated or acknowledged as part of the agile development lifecycle
Taking responsibility of releases and contributing to the ongoing support of the live apps

Key Requirements:

Deep knowledge of software design patterns and software architecture principles
Credibility and ability to influence senior stakeholders convincingly with well-considered logic
An individual with a strategic and innovate approach to delivery, comfortable with a high level of ambiguity prepared to relentlessly drive through extensive change to an aggressive timeline
Provide technical thought leadership and proven ability to compare and contrast different technologies to meet a business requirement and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption
Knowledge of Apple's HIG, design best practices, coding and naming guidelines
Experience in building Universal Apps that support different layouts for iPhone and iPad
Previous experience with Test Driven Development
Some experience with any server-side technology (e.g. ASP.NET, PHP, RoR) and REST API development
Strong experience delivering to AAA accessibility standards and usability principles
Have in-depth conceptual, functional, and non-functional knowledge of:
- Service architecture - Experience of API and service based architectures using SOAP, REST APIs, micro-services and utilising JSON for web or mobile applications
- Enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions e.g. MongoDB, in-memory databases and caching solutions adopted for globally distributed Digital solutions
- CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre
- Cloud architecture - PaaS/IaaS/SaaS - OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure
Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX, XP
Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN)
Experience of High availability and contingency solutions
Logical and Physical data modelling; Data Dictionaries

If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, apply now for an immediate review!