Solution Architect, AVP

Position Overview

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Role Description

• The Solution Architect defines the technical solution design of specific IT platforms and provides guidance to the squad members in order to design, build, test and deliver high quality software solutions. A key element in this context is translation of functional and non-functional business requirements into an appropriate technical solution design, leveraging best practices and consistent design patterns. The Solution Architect collaborates closely with Product Owners Chapter leads and Squad members to ensure consisten adherence to the agreed-upon application design and is responsible for maintaining an appropriate technical design documentation. The Solution architect ensures that the architectures and designs of solutions conform to the principles blueprints, standards, patterns etc,that have been established by the Enterprise Architecture – in this context the solution architect is closely collaborating with the respective Enterprise Architect to ensure architecture compliance. The Solution Architect also actively contributes to the definition and enrichment of design patterns and standards with the aim to leverage those across squads and tribes.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Work closely with cloud engineers to design & develop next generation of the data processing & distribution solutions, leveraging GCP capabilities.
• Define the technical Architecture of IT Solutions in line with functional and non-functional requirements following consistent design patterns and best practices.
• Create appropriate technical design documentation and ensure this is kept up-to-date.
• Provide guidance to the squad members to design, build, test and deliver high quality software solutions in line with business requirements
• Responsible for all aspects of the solution architecture (i.e. Maintainablity, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption etc. ) with the object to meet the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership
• Closely collaborate with enterprise architecture to ensure architecture compliance and make sure that any design options are discussed in a timely manner to allow sufficient time for deliberate decision taking
• Present architecture proposals to relevant forums along with enterprise architect at different levels and drive the process to gain the necessary architecture approvals.
• Collaborate with relevant technology stakeholders within other squads and across tribes to ensure the cross-squad and cross-tribe solution architecture synchronization and alignment
• Contribute to definition and enrichment of appropriate design patterns and standards that can be leveraged across WM squads / tribes
• Serve as a Counsel to designers and developers and carry out reviews of software designs and high level detailed level design documentation provided by other squad members
• Lead the technical discussions with CISO, SAC, end to end and control functions for technical queries
• contribute to peer level solution architecture reviews e.g. within a respective chapter

Your skills and experience

• Strong Expereince on various google cloud components like storage buckets, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, GKE, Apigee, Dataflow, Dataproc, cloud composer, cloud functions etc is essential
• Ability / experience in defining the high level and low level technical solution designs for Data warehousing Projects (ingestion,storage,transformation,consumption) Selecting appropriate technologies for ETL/ELT, Orchestartion,metadata and Governance.
• Very good analytical skills and ability to oversee / structure complex tasks
• Good to have experience in migration of application to google cloud, designing hybrid and on-prem to cloud migration strategies.
• Ability to work in an agile and dynamic environment and to build up the knowledge related to new technology/ solutions in an effective and timely manner
• Proven ability to balance business demands and IT capabilities in terms of standardization reducing risk and increasing the IT flexibility
• Ability to communicate effectively with other technology stakeholders
• Experience in establishing thought leadership in solution architecture practices and ability to lead design and development teams and defining building and delivering first class software solutions
• Familiar with current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and design patterns
• Ability to appropriately consider other dimensions(e.g. financials, risk, time to market)

Your skills and experience

• 12+ years relevant experience as technology Manager within the IT support industry experience in financial /banking industry preferred
• Minimum 5 years' experience supporting Google Cloud Platform in a mid-size to large corporate environment
• Preferably from Banking / Wealth Management experience
• Must have experience working in agile organization.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.