ITE IPP Solutions Architect Consultant

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• Develop, document, and maintain architectural artifacts, including standards, policies, guidelines, models, diagrams, charts, and roadmaps, specifically for a hybrid cloud environment. Utilize a variety of platforms and technologies as guided by division technical leads.
• Actively participate in the assessment, planning, and design phases of projects, ensuring alignment with IT standards, architecture practices, and the bank’s digital strategy in support of its mission.
• Assess the technical feasibility of proposed solutions, ensuring their compatibility with the bank’s IT architecture.
• Regularly update and enforce architectural standards and guidelines at the bank.
• Lead and engage in Architecture Review meetings to evaluate and guide architectural decisions.
• Clearly explain architectural choices and their impacts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comprehensively record architectural assessments and decisions.
• Work with product teams to ensure architectural standards are met, and aid in developing target architectures that align with business objectives, facilitating necessary transitions.
• Work within a cloud-native environment, predominantly using .NET, C#, and Angular, while also leveraging a diverse range of other technologies.
• Focus on core automation development, customizations, and third-party integrations.
• Assist application teams in onboarding services and applications.
• Stay updated with emerging IT trends, collaborate to identify technical opportunities, and participate in discussions to enhance the quality of enterprise IT solutions.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to advocate for and guide the use of accredited IT architectures, standards, and guidelines.
• Work with various IT operations and development teams to review and propose architectural designs, ensuring solutions meet functional and technical requirements.
• In line with IDBG’s Digital Transformation objectives, occasionally collaborate to adapt current Product Review Accreditation (PRAC) and Demand processes for projects using Agile methodology.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent the equivalent combination of education and experience in any of the following fields: Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related area.

• successful candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate skills with a minimum of two years in the following areas: 
• Cloud: MS Azure (AWS is a plus). Should demonstrate relevant work experience and skills designing and maintaining cloud solutions with IaaS or PaaS. With good understanding of the network, security, and cost implications.
• Modern programming languages: .NET, C#, Angular
• Database: MSSQL, Azure SQL, CosmosDB
• Cloud IaC: Terraform, ARMs, Azure CLI, Powershell.
• CI/CD: Platform administration and management: Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, JFrog.
• Modern Authentication: Azure AD, Azure BC2, with a good knowledge and use of modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth2).
• APIs: Good knowledge of RESTful and HTTP Protocol, Azure API Management and Swagger.
• Automated Testing: Hands on experience on Automated Test (Playwright, Specflow and Gherkin)
• Monitoring: Datadog (Preferred), Azure Monitoring.

• Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.

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