Infrastructure Solutions Architect recruitment

Infrastructure Solutions Architect – Systems Engineering, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, RMDS, MQ, RV, 29West, Datasynapse, IIS, MQ, Apache, Websphere, Weblogic

Infrastructure Solutions Architect will concentrate on governance and bringing forth new technologies for use in the technical and management area of tier one Investment Bank. 

Infrastructure Solutions Architect will be responsible for:

Investigating new infrastructure technologies which provide solutions to current problems, Technical Strategy and Roadmaps, Technical Product Management, Technical Service Catalogue / Superstacks, Infrastructure architecture Designs, approved by the relevant approval board,  Proof of Concept Work,  Manage relationships with other development areas on an on-going basis.  Keeping up to date with business road maps, technology roadmaps and feeding wider business IT requirements into central infrastructure engineering and strategy teams.

Use of knowledge of the existing client business, applications and infrastructure to pro-actively make recommendations where it can be seen that improvements can be made,  Meeting with clients and/or 3rd party vendors in order to formally gather the requirements of the application or system. 

Infrastructure Solutions Architect will have:

A good understanding of Front (FX, EQ, PB, FI, Credit, EM), Middle (Risk, Compliance, Treasury) and Back (Operations) office businesses. Able to translate business needs into appropriate IT solutions.

Have a systems engineering discipline background with exposure to:

Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning, systems admin (Solaris, Linux, Windows)

Web applications servers (IIS, MQ, Apache, Websphere, Weblogic)

Databases (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL) and SQL

Storage (EMC SAN, Netapp NAS, Backups)

Market Data and Networking (RMDS, Cisco, Solarflare, Wombat)

Middleware and Grid (RMDS, MQ, RV, 29West, Datasynapse)

End to end agile infrastructure architecture across all layers

Trading Technologies and ISVs

Complex Event Processing, Grid, Data Grids.

Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ Java Script