£60'000 - £70'000 + 5% Bonus + Pension 10% + Holiday 25 + Technical exposure + More
London

Are you from a Dynamics AX / 365 background and looking to join a world-renowned iconic British business offering amazing project exposure whilst being recognised as the 'go to' expert in 365!

Rare opportunity available to join a highly recognised brand at an exciting time of change giving the successful person the chance to shape strategy as well as seeing projects from start to finish!

Based in Central London, our client is the world leader of products and services aimed at the luxury consumer market! With double digit growth and further expansion plans, this is a business who understands the importance of change, technology and transformation. Having implemented Dynamics 365 / AX about 2 years ago, analytics and change is a relatively new concept to the organisation but already has huge buy in from the REST of the business.

Working as part of a small team, you will be recognised as the resident 365 / AX expert focused across strategic and operational change initiatives as well as collaborating with key stakeholders at all levels within the business (Directors - Developers). End to end project work is to be expected with a core focus around Dynamics Finance & Operations and Retail.

This is a role holds a lot of opportunity to further develop your career as well as the chance to make a large impact in an international business with a great name in the industry.

The role:

* Business Systems Analyst (Dynamics 365)
* Full project ownership across key areas of the business
* Dynamics 365- Finance & Operations / Retail
* Stakeholder management
* Strategy
* Project management (End to end)
* Working within a small team in an international business
* Chance to progress within a growing department (Lead role)
* Exposure to the latest retails technology and systems

The Person

* Business Systems Analyst
* Dynamics 365 / AX experience
* Strong stakeholder management experience
* Looking to gain amazing exposure in a globally recognised brand
* Looking to have a long-term progressive career where you can make quick change!

Job Reference number - RTR91872

£60'000 - £70'000 + 5% Bonus + Pension 10% + Holiday 25 + Technical exposure + More
London

Are you from a Dynamics AX / 365 background and looking to join a world-renowned iconic British business offering amazing project exposure whilst being recognised as the 'go to' expert in 365!

Rare opportunity available to join a highly recognised brand at an exciting time of change giving the successful person the chance to shape strategy as well as seeing projects from start to finish!

Based in Central London, our client is the world leader of products and services aimed at the luxury consumer market! With double digit growth and further expansion plans, this is a business who understands the importance of change, technology and transformation. Having implemented Dynamics 365 / AX about 2 years ago, analytics and change is a relatively new concept to the organisation but already has huge buy in from the REST of the business.

Working as part of a small team, you will be recognised as the resident 365 / AX expert focused across strategic and operational change initiatives as well as collaborating with key stakeholders at all levels within the business (Directors - Developers). End to end project work is to be expected with a core focus around Dynamics Finance & Operations and Retail.

This is a role holds a lot of opportunity to further develop your career as well as the chance to make a large impact in an international business with a great name in the industry.

The role:

* Business Systems Analyst (Dynamics 365)
* Full project ownership across key areas of the business
* Dynamics 365- Finance & Operations / Retail
* Stakeholder management
* Strategy
* Project management (End to end)
* Working within a small team in an international business
* Chance to progress within a growing department (Lead role)
* Exposure to the latest retails technology and systems

The Person

* Business Systems Analyst
* Dynamics 365 / AX experience
* Strong stakeholder management experience
* Looking to gain amazing exposure in a globally recognised brand
* Looking to have a long-term progressive career where you can make quick change!

Job Reference number - RTR91872

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

The Role

Data is a key asset to our business, and this role is key to unlocking the value that it can bring. The Technical Lead must have extensive SQL Server and Enterprise Data Warehousing experience and be focused on delivering business benefit whilst ensuring a high level of quality.

The Technical Lead must lead by example in both their technical skills, and leadership of the delivery team, and be able to demonstrate good decision making to choose the right solutions.

This role has people management responsibility, and will be required to perform key activities such as team member monthly reviews, objective setting and ensuring each team member has a plan for their personal development.

Main responsibilities include:

• Developing quality software
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Line Management responsibilities
• Maintaining SDLC tooling
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management)

Skills

Technical

Appropriate level of design and documentation skills, covering:

• Detailed designs
• Standards and patterns
• How-to guides and other material to aid the squad and guild

Experience in SQL Server and related technologies, covering:

• Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services (ideally SSAS Tabular)
• BI and Data Warehousing skills
• Data warehousing including Kimball, Inmon and Data Vault methodologies
• Schema design
• SSIS & SSRS
• Automation frameworks e.g. BIML
• Database performance tuning and indexing
• PowerBI

Demonstrable understanding of how to develop quality software through:

• Testing frameworks and practices; e.g. MSTest, NUnit, performance testing
• Use of appropriate principles and patterns along with writing clean and secure code
• Integrating with monitoring and alerting frameworks

Ways of Working and Tooling:

• Strong experience of agile development practices as part of a delivery squad/cell
• Strong experience and appreciation of agile project management software; e.g. Jira
• Strong experience and appreciation of Git based version control systems
• Strong experience and appreciation of CI/CD practices and tooling; e.g. TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps, Redgate

Transactional/Critical systems and integration:

• Desirable experience developing critical systems in a regulated financial environment
• Desirable experience integrating solutions with APIs and Middleware solutions; JMS, ESBs

Support:

• Desirable experience providing third level support for production systems
• Defect triage, management and prioritisation

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively within the squad and across the squads where necessary to achieve the right outcomes
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Management

• Ideally have managed a small team of developers, including performance management and other line management duties

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

The Role

Data is a key asset to our business, and this role is key to unlocking the value that it can bring. The Technical Lead must have extensive SQL Server and Enterprise Data Warehousing experience and be focused on delivering business benefit whilst ensuring a high level of quality.

The Technical Lead must lead by example in both their technical skills, and leadership of the delivery team, and be able to demonstrate good decision making to choose the right solutions.

This role has people management responsibility, and will be required to perform key activities such as team member monthly reviews, objective setting and ensuring each team member has a plan for their personal development.

Main responsibilities include:

• Developing quality software
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Line Management responsibilities
• Maintaining SDLC tooling
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management)

Skills

Technical

Appropriate level of design and documentation skills, covering:

• Detailed designs
• Standards and patterns
• How-to guides and other material to aid the squad and guild

Experience in SQL Server and related technologies, covering:

• Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services (ideally SSAS Tabular)
• BI and Data Warehousing skills
• Data warehousing including Kimball, Inmon and Data Vault methodologies
• Schema design
• SSIS & SSRS
• Automation frameworks e.g. BIML
• Database performance tuning and indexing
• PowerBI

Demonstrable understanding of how to develop quality software through:

• Testing frameworks and practices; e.g. MSTest, NUnit, performance testing
• Use of appropriate principles and patterns along with writing clean and secure code
• Integrating with monitoring and alerting frameworks

Ways of Working and Tooling:

• Strong experience of agile development practices as part of a delivery squad/cell
• Strong experience and appreciation of agile project management software; e.g. Jira
• Strong experience and appreciation of Git based version control systems
• Strong experience and appreciation of CI/CD practices and tooling; e.g. TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps, Redgate

Transactional/Critical systems and integration:

• Desirable experience developing critical systems in a regulated financial environment
• Desirable experience integrating solutions with APIs and Middleware solutions; JMS, ESBs

Support:

• Desirable experience providing third level support for production systems
• Defect triage, management and prioritisation

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively within the squad and across the squads where necessary to achieve the right outcomes
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Management

• Ideally have managed a small team of developers, including performance management and other line management duties

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

Our Application Delivery team is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to assist in rolling out and supporting our journey to Continuous Integration and Automation. We are building a new team of engineers that will be responsible for the design, build and maintenance of the business applications hosting platform, with a move to a hybrid on-prem / Azure cloud model.

This is a hands-on role where you will work collaboratively with the development and infrastructure teams to help build, automate and manage the application hosting platform along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot issues in the dev and test environments.

Responsibilities

• Building & Supporting hosting platform
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management

Skills / Knowledge and Experience

• Work within the team of DevOps Engineers focused primarily on delivering technical solutions for improving the overall quality of application build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability and security across our lab environments
• Operate a scalable, highly-available infrastructure suite through the use of configuration management tools and repositories, ensure these environments continue to meet the needs of the development and test teams
• Support the set up all team environments, source structures etc. during project start up
• Ensure that the teams design for deployment, passionately working towards automation and elimination of repetitive tasks, bringing your experience in modern tools to help support development teams deliver more effectively
• Work with Architect and Tech Lead on the adoption of new technologies in to the estate, ensuring that these are shared with other areas and that they align with standards etc.
• To support the team in identifying issues with code / deliverables
• Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• Help the Run teams embrace the new ways of working, using toolsets and monitoring / dashboard facilities, so they know where their estate is at all times Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• An ever-developing knowledge of and interest in technology, particularly DevOps and infrastructure advances

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with Azure, with a focus on infrastructure provisioning and management
• Good understanding of provisioning and configuration systems e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Strong experience of automated deployment tools e.g. Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and approach e.g. TeamCity, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Source Control systems e.g. BitBucket, Git
• Experience with VMWare
• Strong Microsoft Skillset e.g. Server 2008-2016, SQL Server, Active Directory
• Good scripting skills e.g. PowerShell, Python
• Good understanding of databases
• Agile/Scrum working experience

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

Our Application Delivery team is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to assist in rolling out and supporting our journey to Continuous Integration and Automation. We are building a new team of engineers that will be responsible for the design, build and maintenance of the business applications hosting platform, with a move to a hybrid on-prem / Azure cloud model.

This is a hands-on role where you will work collaboratively with the development and infrastructure teams to help build, automate and manage the application hosting platform along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot issues in the dev and test environments.

Responsibilities

• Building & Supporting hosting platform
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management

Skills / Knowledge and Experience

• Work within the team of DevOps Engineers focused primarily on delivering technical solutions for improving the overall quality of application build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability and security across our lab environments
• Operate a scalable, highly-available infrastructure suite through the use of configuration management tools and repositories, ensure these environments continue to meet the needs of the development and test teams
• Support the set up all team environments, source structures etc. during project start up
• Ensure that the teams design for deployment, passionately working towards automation and elimination of repetitive tasks, bringing your experience in modern tools to help support development teams deliver more effectively
• Work with Architect and Tech Lead on the adoption of new technologies in to the estate, ensuring that these are shared with other areas and that they align with standards etc.
• To support the team in identifying issues with code / deliverables
• Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• Help the Run teams embrace the new ways of working, using toolsets and monitoring / dashboard facilities, so they know where their estate is at all times Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• An ever-developing knowledge of and interest in technology, particularly DevOps and infrastructure advances

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with Azure, with a focus on infrastructure provisioning and management
• Good understanding of provisioning and configuration systems e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Strong experience of automated deployment tools e.g. Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and approach e.g. TeamCity, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Source Control systems e.g. BitBucket, Git
• Experience with VMWare
• Strong Microsoft Skillset e.g. Server 2008-2016, SQL Server, Active Directory
• Good scripting skills e.g. PowerShell, Python
• Good understanding of databases
• Agile/Scrum working experience

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

I am now recruiting on behalf of an award winning Digital Agency based in Spalding, Lincolnshire who work with their customers to produce bespoke software, web design, development and rebranding as well as system and legacy support.

They are looking for a talented Senior Angular developer to join their hard working, fun and sociable team to help drive the company forward and add to their already fantastic skill set in house.

They are looking for someone who is passionate about producing high quality, creative and innovative products and who wants to join a fast moving and challenging but rewarding environment.

Your responsibilities include building and maintaining internal and external facing web applications. You will work with a team of experienced analysts, developers and business resources to build enterprise systems. As this is a senior position, you will be required to have a calm and confident approach, the ability to motivate more junior members of the team, as well as being motivated yourself and able to work independently.

They are happy to provide the right candidate training in order to continuously help their staff's professional / technical development

In terms of the tech stack, this includes:

• HTML / CSS / JS
• Angular
• Node
• TypeScript
• REST APIs.
• CSS pre-processors and CSS design methodologies.
• Use toolset (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) to manage code, released, work items, tracking and continuous integration
• Unit Testing for Angular

Benefits Include:

• Pension scheme
• free parking
• 20 days annual leave that can increase to 25 days depending on years of services, plus bank holidays
• Annual Bonus dependent on company performance
• If you could be interested in this position please don't hesitate to apply.

I am now recruiting on behalf of an award winning Digital Agency based in Spalding, Lincolnshire who work with their customers to produce bespoke software, web design, development and rebranding as well as system and legacy support.

They are looking for a talented Senior Angular developer to join their hard working, fun and sociable team to help drive the company forward and add to their already fantastic skill set in house.

They are looking for someone who is passionate about producing high quality, creative and innovative products and who wants to join a fast moving and challenging but rewarding environment.

Your responsibilities include building and maintaining internal and external facing web applications. You will work with a team of experienced analysts, developers and business resources to build enterprise systems. As this is a senior position, you will be required to have a calm and confident approach, the ability to motivate more junior members of the team, as well as being motivated yourself and able to work independently.

They are happy to provide the right candidate training in order to continuously help their staff's professional / technical development

In terms of the tech stack, this includes:

• HTML / CSS / JS
• Angular
• Node
• TypeScript
• REST APIs.
• CSS pre-processors and CSS design methodologies.
• Use toolset (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) to manage code, released, work items, tracking and continuous integration
• Unit Testing for Angular

Benefits Include:

• Pension scheme
• free parking
• 20 days annual leave that can increase to 25 days depending on years of services, plus bank holidays
• Annual Bonus dependent on company performance
• If you could be interested in this position please don't hesitate to apply.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

The Role

The primary purpose of the Solutions Architect (SA) is to determine, agree and communicate fit for purpose technology solutions, in the form of design documentation, which meets the needs of the business, while adhering to the Architecture Framework and the overall IT Strategy.

The SA works closely with delivery teams throughout the change lifecycle to ensure, rather than assure, the right outcomes are achieved.

The SA has a focus on the application and data domains, but must have sufficient knowledge about the infrastructure and hosting environments to effectively work with operations teams. Being a part of a small architecture team, the SA will further help to maintain the Architecture Framework to ensure we have a well-defined application portfolio and road-maps, along with supporting principles, patterns and standards.

• Designing fit for purpose solutions (incl. time spent with delivery teams)
• Maintaining the Architecture Framework
• Research and Innovation work and personal development
• Admin and Support related activities

Skills / Experience

• Experienced Solutions Architect (acting in a lead capacity) on a variety of complex projects in a financial/regulated and/or highly complex environment where security is taken seriously
• Experienced at designing bespoke web-based solutions and integrating with in-house and third party solutions using modern APIs and integration/middleware technology
• Experienced at creating and taking design documentation through a formal approval process and communicating that design to delivery teams to ensure everyone understands what needs to be achieved
• Experienced working in RFP processes to ensure appropriate technology solutions are selected, followed by supporting the delivery of that technology in to the business
• Experienced working with small project teams throughout the entire change lifecycle, from functional and non-functional requirements gathering to service transition, competent to support that lifecycle where required
• Previous experience in software development and still close to technology
• Ideally experienced working with Enterprise Architects to maintain and evolve Architecture Frameworks; application portfolios, roadmaps, standards, patterns.

Technical

Previous development background, preferably in Microsoft technologies, e.g.:

• .Net and C#
• Web API (REST based APIs)
• Modern UI frameworks; e.g. React, Angular
• Databases - Microsoft SQL Server - Schema design and SQL

Up to date experience with modern integration platforms and solutions:

• API Gateways and ESB platforms; e.g. Webmethods, Mule, AWS/Azure
• ETL; e.g. SSIS
• Queuing and Eventing Technology; e.g. ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Able to design robust and secure APIs using OpenAPI Specification

Experience integrating and deploying to traditional infrastructure services:

• Server, database, web and application server, load balancers….
• Experience integrating with monitoring technology; e.g. Elastic, New Relic
• Ideally experience with modern Identity and Access Management platforms
• Ideally experience designing and implementing CRM/Case/Process Management platforms
• Ideally experience designing and deploying solutions to Cloud platforms; Azure, AWS

Cultural

• Ability to provide the necessary governance and controls for a regulated, financial organisations, in a lightweight and pragmatic way that allows the delivery teams to operate within an agile methodology

Personal

• Someone who enjoys the challenge of technology and is interested in technology
• Collaborative, open and able to communicate effectively
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 30% annual bonus
• Car allowance
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the REST of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

The Role

The primary purpose of the Solutions Architect (SA) is to determine, agree and communicate fit for purpose technology solutions, in the form of design documentation, which meets the needs of the business, while adhering to the Architecture Framework and the overall IT Strategy.

The SA works closely with delivery teams throughout the change lifecycle to ensure, rather than assure, the right outcomes are achieved.

The SA has a focus on the application and data domains, but must have sufficient knowledge about the infrastructure and hosting environments to effectively work with operations teams. Being a part of a small architecture team, the SA will further help to maintain the Architecture Framework to ensure we have a well-defined application portfolio and road-maps, along with supporting principles, patterns and standards.

• Designing fit for purpose solutions (incl. time spent with delivery teams)
• Maintaining the Architecture Framework
• Research and Innovation work and personal development
• Admin and Support related activities

Skills / Experience

• Experienced Solutions Architect (acting in a lead capacity) on a variety of complex projects in a financial/regulated and/or highly complex environment where security is taken seriously
• Experienced at designing bespoke web-based solutions and integrating with in-house and third party solutions using modern APIs and integration/middleware technology
• Experienced at creating and taking design documentation through a formal approval process and communicating that design to delivery teams to ensure everyone understands what needs to be achieved
• Experienced working in RFP processes to ensure appropriate technology solutions are selected, followed by supporting the delivery of that technology in to the business
• Experienced working with small project teams throughout the entire change lifecycle, from functional and non-functional requirements gathering to service transition, competent to support that lifecycle where required
• Previous experience in software development and still close to technology
• Ideally experienced working with Enterprise Architects to maintain and evolve Architecture Frameworks; application portfolios, roadmaps, standards, patterns.

Technical

Previous development background, preferably in Microsoft technologies, e.g.:

• .Net and C#
• Web API (REST based APIs)
• Modern UI frameworks; e.g. React, Angular
• Databases - Microsoft SQL Server - Schema design and SQL

Up to date experience with modern integration platforms and solutions:

• API Gateways and ESB platforms; e.g. Webmethods, Mule, AWS/Azure
• ETL; e.g. SSIS
• Queuing and Eventing Technology; e.g. ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Able to design robust and secure APIs using OpenAPI Specification

Experience integrating and deploying to traditional infrastructure services:

• Server, database, web and application server, load balancers….
• Experience integrating with monitoring technology; e.g. Elastic, New Relic
• Ideally experience with modern Identity and Access Management platforms
• Ideally experience designing and implementing CRM/Case/Process Management platforms
• Ideally experience designing and deploying solutions to Cloud platforms; Azure, AWS

Cultural

• Ability to provide the necessary governance and controls for a regulated, financial organisations, in a lightweight and pragmatic way that allows the delivery teams to operate within an agile methodology

Personal

• Someone who enjoys the challenge of technology and is interested in technology
• Collaborative, open and able to communicate effectively
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 30% annual bonus
• Car allowance
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.