Solution Architect

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Solution architecture is the backbone of our implementation work. With clients and prospects, solution engineers and solution architects focus on the use of the Alfa Systems platform to deliver the clients functional & non-functional requirements, taking into account the integration landscape, enterprise aims, business goals and project constraints.

Alfa is looking to recruit a Solution Architect to our team.

Key responsibilities:

• Understand and document our client’s systems and integration landscape and then propose, design & deliver integration solutions.

• Architect the appropriate business intelligence/data-warehousing approach for integrating from our platform to the client data landscape.

• Define non-functional requirements (security requirements, scheduling, disaster recovery etc.) and assist with the implementation.

• Work with our clients to develop performance targets, testing plans and to assist with execution, including the performance tuning of the Alfa application and diagnosing issues.

• Collaborate with our functional experts to provide guidance to our clients about product functionality including standard methodology and inquisitive workarounds. Work with clients and engineering to add to and manage enhancements on our product roadmap.

• Support client teams with overall architecture deployment using existing supported platforms or our cloud hosted services as appropriate.

• Distil and share your knowledge both internally and externally. Mentor and help to shape the next generation of solution architects.

We would love you to have:

• Experience in software development, technical advocacy, technical consultancy, technical pre-sales, solution architecture or enterprise architecture.

• Ability to investigate technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

• Excellent communication and consultancy skills.

• Business analysis and client requirement gathering.

• Knowledge of common integration patterns and approaches.

• Ability to look at a problem holistically, balancing competing constraints, to identify pragmatic solutions, often in an evolving environment.

• Experience in mentoring and coaching.

Preferred:

• Experience in the Auto / Equipment Finance Industry.

• Integration experience with APIs, web services, event streaming and messaging (Kafka, JMS, SQS etc).

• Experience with market-leading SaaS or iPaaS solutions.

• Hands-on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud experience.

• Database experience, including with reporting systems/data warehousing.

• Performance analysis, with tools like JProfiler/CodeGuru.

• Knowledge of Containers (Docker).

• Knowledge of and experience with data engineering concepts, tooling and patterns.

What we’ll do for you

• Support you in flexible hybrid or remote working

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days

• Pension contribution match up to 6%

• Provide private health insurance and access to private 24/7 online GP

• Support you with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with family-friendly policies

• Provide Income protection

• Provide Life, disability and worldwide travel insurance

• Offer interest free loans of up to £10,000 after probation period

• Offer Gympass given access to a range of health and wellbeing gyms, classes and apps

About Alfa
We bring our industry-leading software platform to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and CarMax, so they can do business globally. Supporting all types of auto, equipment and wholesale finance business, our software platform uses a modern technology stack to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our customers use Alfa Systems for the full lifecycle, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency in a highly available, high-throughput system.
Culture
Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.