Solutions Architect: Information Systems Job in Southampton SO143JA, Southern UK

We seek an innovative Solutions Architect to join a world class team solving challenging data exploitation problems. The ideal candidate would have a natural affinity toward information technologies and a broad awareness of the art of the possible within data processing.

The role would suite a talented enterprise systems engineer wishing to move into more architectural and concept scoping work from a J2EE or .Net background in systems that analyse data such as business intelligence (BI) yet still able to work alongside implementation team in order to realise new architectures and concepts. The candidate would gain considerable new experience in a range of cutting edge information exploitation technologies, IP networks and cyber security.

The candidate would need a proven ability in successfully working with complex stakeholder communities in guiding, advising and conceptualizing information architectures drawing on an extensive awareness of the breadth of technologies available.

Essential Skills
• Extensive background in architecting enterprise solutions ideally using J2EE technologies (comparable experience in .Net would also be considered)
• Solid understanding of enterprise scalable database technologies like Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server
• Strong Object Oriented development skills with a good working knowledge of UML
• Good understanding of SOA and the logic and messaging components of all major stack vendors such as IBM Websphere MQ, Oracle OMB Weblogic or JBoss

Desirable Skills
• Experience working within large rainbow consortia
• Some exposure to formal modelling methodologies such as UML, SysML or MODAF
• Broad awareness of information analysis and visualisation tools
• Broad awareness of data stream and event processing systems
• Exposure to both Linux and Windows

Other technologies of interest
Hadoop, Ab Initio, I2, Palantir, Esper, Solr, Python

Base salary up to £60k plus bonus scheme, BUPA healthcare, pension, gym, onsite restaurant along with flexible benefits such as childcare vouchers, travel insurance, dental care and the Cycle2Workscheme.

To apply, please send to you CV to nicolespencer@spectrumit.co.uk or call Nicole on 02380 765802 for more information.

Keywords
J2EE, JEE, .Net, Enterprise, Agile, UML, Oracle, BI, NoSQL, Analytics, Python, Cyber, data mining, visualisation