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Solution Architect

Employer
Refinitiv
Location
GBR-Nottingham-1 Chapel Qtr
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
29 Sep 2020

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Sector
Finance
Job Role
Network Security
Job Type
Permanent
The Refinitiv Data Platform (RDP) Core & Data Access Technology group have the need for recruitment of a Solution Architect. It is a technology role for solution design and governance of critical Metadata components of the Refinitiv Data Platform, Refinitiv's next-generation and strategic data delivery platform and product suite. The role will be based in Nottingham, UK.

This role is critical in driving our simplification agenda across Refinitiv's fragmented technology estate of today, including the migration to public cloud. The role will have input into the design authority over Metadata Registry and Provenance, which are central components in the RDP architecture which impact virtually all of the platform. It will involve working very closely with an offshore engineering team, central RDP Solution, Data and Enterprise architecture groups, and local & remote Product Management stakeholders. Ultimately all future Refinitiv non-real-time data collection, curation, mastering and distribution will be driven by the Metadata Registry.

We are looking for a self-motivated, hands-on and driven technologist, able to work both independently and in collaboration with other technologists, product and proposition managers at all levels.

The candidate ideally will thrive on being extremely hands-on, code in their spare time and have the ability to extremely quickly knock-up Proof-of-Concepts, provide thought-leadership and creativity to their development team and operate with a lead-by-example style.

The candidate will preferably have at least 5 years professional experience in multiple development and architecture roles and domains (application engineering, software architecture, networking, etc.).

Key Responsibilities
  • Will be involved in overall design of Metadata Registry component and technology assets, and the approach to making the entire RDP Platform "Metadata Driven"
  • Provide insight to senior team members and direction to Core & Data Access group, working globally with engineering teams in London, Gdynia, and Beijing
  • Work closely with Core & Data Access engineering teams throughout entire delivery and deployment cycle
  • Critical deliverables in 2020 on major programs, RDP Matterhorn and Bulk
  • Contribute to wider RDP architecture group on vision and technology strategy
  • Ensure compliance with Refinitiv's technical policies and standards

Key Abilities
  • Of critical importance is the ability to bridge the gap between business needs/direction and the possibilities and constraints surrounding technical implementation. Able to bring experience and innovative thinking to this area
  • Able to influence, manage and facilitate change, within internal teams and externally in matrix environment
  • Ability to assist business stakeholders to define and prioritise their requirements
  • Ability to abstract and communicate complex interdependent concepts, breaking them down into better-understood concepts or previous experiences
  • Ability to understand the needs of the customer and keep them in mind when taking actions or making decisions
  • Ability to balance desire for clean architecture design with pragmatism on delivery, including consideration of minimisation of technical debt

Required Skills
  • Knowledge, hands-on experience and conceptual/architectural understanding of many flavours of data storage technologies (relational, big data/NoSQL, data warehousing, document/index stores, search engines, cloud-native, cloud SaaS, traditional on-premise etc.)
  • Experience of data extraction, transformation and analytics at large scale, and on complex datasets (ETL, map reduce, data replication, etc.)
  • Knowledge and understanding of data modelling and data description and characterization.
  • Experience in automating complex data flows.
  • Abstraction techniques, knowledge and experience of building easy-to-use customer interfaces for differing use-cases, request-response, push workloads, streaming workloads (web APIs, REST, pub-sub etc.) across different domains
  • Requirement analysis, software architecture and design, micro-services architecture
  • Excellent communication skills, especially across cultures, language and knowledge barriers.
  • Ability to translate concepts and communicate in terms understandable to technical and non-technical staff. Ability to distinguish technical/knowledge level of listener, and communicate in the language of listener
  • Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner, lead groups, negotiate and create consensus

Desirable Skills
  • Practical experience of developing solutions based on major cloud vendors, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure.
  • Knowledge of financial markets and Refinitiv products (Eikon, Datascope, TR Knowledge Direct, etc.)
  • Experience of building datafeeds, file-feed products and solutions
  • Experience of developing against, and consuming financial market datafeed products (e.g. Refinitiv Datascope Select API, Knowledge Direct, QA Direct, etc.)
  • Methods and techniques for delivering effective presentations
  • Principles and practices of good system design e.g. loose coupling, abstraction etc.
  • Practical experience with the following technologies: AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, Lambda, IAM, Aurora, API Gateway etc.), web services & accelerators (Tomcat, NginX, Varnish), web service specifications and standards (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, OData), serialisation tools (JSON, Avro etc.), RDBMSs (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres etc.), data warehousing (AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery, Snowflake etc.), Azure (various)
  • Practical experience with agile development methodologies and tools (Scrum, JIRA etc.)

Education / Certifications

Science/Engineering degree highly preferable

We care about benefits too.

We support our colleagues' wellbeing with inclusive benefits. So that's support for physical, financial, mental and environmental health, paid time off to volunteer, consumer discounts & savings and so much more. All of which are tailored to your needs and may vary by location. For more details talk to your recruiter.

Our fast paced and supportive environment is only possible due to determined, autonomous problem solvers who love our high performance culture. And as a global business, Refinitiv relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. So we seek hardworking, qualified employees in all our operations around the world-regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Refinitiv is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Refinitiv makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us to request an accommodation. A full list of our office locations and contact information can be found at: Refinitiv Office Locations .

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