Applications and Intergration Architect at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Tezza Business Solutions Ltd is a "niche” service provider of Software Development, Quality Assurance and Software Testing services. Tezza began its operations as Web Development company in 2000 in Overland Park, Kansas. Since then, we’ve evolved into a Services-oriented company who only engage in Product development as a value-add service to our...

 

Applications and Intergration Architect

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience7 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldICT / Computer 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead in solution design activities.
  • Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
  • Develop, implement and guard architecture principles and development standards.
  • Identify and recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions/systems.
  • Lead in elicitation and documentation of non-functional requirements.
  • Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend Design Patterns and guide their application / use in delivering integration solutions in the bank.
  • Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of re-using it for future solutions. Review the existing integrations landscape and provide/develop plans for closure of any new or existing/known issues.
  • Deployment Architectures - Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
  • Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance / load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.

Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related Course
  • At least 7 years’ experience in Technology within the domains of Software development and solutions architecture.
  • At least 7 years of Integration hands on experience using enterprise tools.
  • Hands on development experience in service decomposition, solution design and implementation based on microservices architecture.
  • Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations and priorities. 
  • Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
  • Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP/HTTP, REST and JMS/MQ protocols.
  • Solid software development experience using Object Oriented Programming languages.
  • Deep expertise on cloud technologies and concepts.
  • Deep expertise in various relational databases – Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices.
  • Integration knowledge of event-based streaming and integration, pub-sub, and request-reply, synchronous-asynchronous patterns.
  • Working knowledge of API security - authentication, authorization, policies etc.
  • Experience in performance planning and execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the solutions/services for optimal performance. 
  • Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture - infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security.

The Person

  • Ability to perform impact analysis of new and proposed architectures in relation to the current landscape and available technologies utilized in the IT environment.
  • Cloud certifications on either AWS or Azure will be an advantage.
  • Must have a strong and proven software development background.
  • Applies discretion and independent judgment to identify when deviation from standard practice is required / imminent.
  • Good experience with microservices architecture, with understanding of integrations software patterns. 
  • Sound knowledge of various messaging architectures.
  • Past experience on usage of Principles, Standards and Guidelines on Integration Architecture decision making for all solutions.
  • Participation in key projects as a lead architect.
  • Hands on experience in SDLC processes & agile based development methodology.
  • Ability to conceptualize, formulate, and present complex business demands / requirements via comprehensible models and templates.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication; self-motivated, dynamic, team player, result driven, relationship builder, independent worker with excellent interpersonal relation building skills.

Method of Application

Send your application to recruitment@tezzasolutions.com

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