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This role is for a Solution Architect with a 12-month contract, offering a pay rate of "£X/hour." Remote work is available. Requires 10+ years in software delivery, expertise in Azure, and knowledge of the Trading Business. TOGAF certification preferred.
Location: Houston, TX, United States
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About the Job Our client is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net‑zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, we are seeking a skilled and seasoned Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.
What’s the role As a Solution Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end‑to‑end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well‑designed and aligned with standards and reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for the client’s Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.
Key responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Leadership
Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
Lead in your area of expertise and play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with architectural standards.
Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
Reference Model Stewardship
Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling.
Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
Technology Foresight
Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions.
Standards Alignment
Stay informed of developments in IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
Community Engagement
Champion architectural excellence within the organisation.
Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
What We Need from you Industry Knowledge
Knowledge of the end‑to‑end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement.
Technical Architecture & Design
10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
Collaboration & Communication
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day‑to‑day technical decisions.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years’ experience in trading environments.
Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.
Problem Solving & Innovation
Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider picture.
Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade‑offs or technical debt.
Technical Skills and Mastery
Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python, etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS).
Expert in one or more of the front‑end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores, etc) technologies.
Exposure to OpenLink Endur, SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.
Hands‑on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re‑platforming of legacy on‑premise systems.
Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security.
Experience with diverse data types: big data, high‑velocity streaming, IoT, low‑latency event triggers, longitudinal time series.
Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event‑driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK.
Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
Practical agile experience in both start‑up and enterprise environments.
Additional Responsibilities
Lead the engineering community to follow Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives.
Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.
Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High‑Level Design documents.
Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external needs.
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Location: Houston, TX, United States
#React #Agile #Ansible #Security #Databases #Data Architecture #Time Series #GitHub #Business Analysis #Migration #GIT #Data Lake #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Azure Data Factory #Data Strategy #Microservices #Azure Active Directory #Logical Data Model #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Cloud #Azure SQL #Python #IoT (Internet of Things) #SAP Hana #Data Management #Azure #Big Data #DevOps #Triggers #Documentation #Kubernetes #.Net #Scala #Terraform #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Leadership #Logic Apps #Programming #Storage #ETL (Extract #Transform #Load) #SAP #Strategy #Automation #Azure DevOps #NoSQL #ADF (Azure Data Factory) #API (Application Programming Interface) #Containers
About the Job Our client is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net‑zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, we are seeking a skilled and seasoned Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.
What’s the role As a Solution Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end‑to‑end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well‑designed and aligned with standards and reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for the client’s Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.
Key responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Leadership
Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
Lead in your area of expertise and play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with architectural standards.
Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
Reference Model Stewardship
Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling.
Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
Technology Foresight
Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions.
Standards Alignment
Stay informed of developments in IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
Community Engagement
Champion architectural excellence within the organisation.
Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
What We Need from you Industry Knowledge
Knowledge of the end‑to‑end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement.
Technical Architecture & Design
10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
Collaboration & Communication
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day‑to‑day technical decisions.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years’ experience in trading environments.
Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.
Problem Solving & Innovation
Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider picture.
Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade‑offs or technical debt.
Technical Skills and Mastery
Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python, etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS).
Expert in one or more of the front‑end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores, etc) technologies.
Exposure to OpenLink Endur, SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.
Hands‑on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re‑platforming of legacy on‑premise systems.
Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security.
Experience with diverse data types: big data, high‑velocity streaming, IoT, low‑latency event triggers, longitudinal time series.
Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event‑driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK.
Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
Practical agile experience in both start‑up and enterprise environments.
Additional Responsibilities
Lead the engineering community to follow Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives.
Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.
Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High‑Level Design documents.
Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external needs.
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