Technical Architect
We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to support IG's ongoing IT technical growth.
Job responsibilities
You will be assigned a number of IT Projects to provide technical architecture services. You will be acting as the technical authority, overseeing the technology selections and implementation strategies. This will include providing technical risk assessment and technical risk and issue management within a project during key phases, and at times, undertaking development work where required.
Reporting to the Chief Technical Architect, you will also be contributing to the IG Group architecture strategy and the technical roadmap.
Essential criteria
You should have at least ten years IT experience, ideally within the financial industry including:
- At least eight years' development experience in any one of the following (Java, C# or C++)
- At least three years' architecting enterprise solutions within JEE
- At least three years' experience of Oracle
- Strong Object Oriented skills (eg from Java or C++)
- In-depth knowledge of XML
- End to end lifecycle experience
- Experience of iterative/agile development methodologies (SCRUM, XP, DSDM, RUP etc)
- Team-lead experience
- Strong UML design skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience, or certification, of TOGAF or Zachman frameworks
- Experience of any Enterprise scalable messaging infrastructure (ie TIBCO, MQ, AMQP/QPID)
- Strong Quality Process Management experience (ie SCM, QA etc)
- Ajax, JSON, JDBC, JMS, JMX Coherance, Terracotta, EHCache
- Ant, Maven, Subversion
- CORBA
- Unix command line/shell scripting; Perl
- LightStreamer; IBM MQ, AMQP/QPID
- RESTful http services
- Experience working with complex multi-threaded environments
If you are interested in this opportunity and feel that you have the relevant skills and experience plus the right to work in the UK, please send your CV to hr@iggroup.com, together with a covering letter stating your current salary details.