Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect Here at SmallWorld Financial Services, we know how important it is to be able to support friends and family from abroad. Put simply, we believe that the more people we can help transfer money to overseas family, friends and businesses, the smaller the world becomes. Small World Financial Services is a provider of payment services with a clear vision to be our customer’s favourite choice for their global payment needs. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, reflecting their diversity in our teams, and empower our teams to deliver the best value and service through our branded global network and digital solutions. Our network of over 360,000 pickup locations, and our global team of 800 people are collectively on a journey to make a big world small for the 15 million, and counting, worldwide transactions that customers make each year. For over 20 years we have been ensuring that customers can: ● Transfer money securely and easily ● Deliver money instantly to bank accounts in over 90 countries ● Benefit from competitive exchange rates and promotions ● Enjoy a global service with local language support We currently run our business with 3 legacy platforms: our core platform, our payers’ integrations platform and our digital channels, including IOS and Android apps and our website. We have just started a transformation program to migrate all the platforms to microservices and to move from a dev-sec-ops philosophy. The technologies to use are in the very latest stages of their standardization and they are pointing to Spring Boot, Flutter and Angujar in AWS EKS, although for some use cases we can keep native web, IOS or Android in the frontends. We are creating a big Solutions Centre in Karachi, Pakistan and we are recruiting a significant number of engineers in all the areas including solutions architects, systems administrators, devops, networking engineers, software developers, architects and qa engineers work together with the rest of the teams distributed geographically mainly in Spain, Mexico and UK so far. Our project is a transformation project with all the consequences!! A people first proposal with an exciting technology stack. If you love technology and team work, it’s your place to be! We valuate very positively international experience and education, don’t hesitate to highlight it if you count on it! Your Responsibilities ● Be an active part of the architecture community and the architecture board ● Provide the right definition and technical solution according to the existing standards or promote the creation of a new one. ● Deliver the HLAs according to new product initiatives. ● Deliver technical analysis according to product requirements. ● Participate in the refinement sessions to provide with any specified detail of any technical analysis. ● Maintain and be accountable of the solutions and systems in the architecture catalog. ● Guide and support the squads to implement the solutions described. ● Validate the solutions are properly implemented. ● Support on any BAU incident affecting your designed solution About you We are looking for an experienced solutions architect that can help us to grow our technology function to the next level of maturity. A hands-on team player with an extensive experience participating in complex international projects. We are looking better for a good team player and willing to support others, with expertise on the following areas: ● You have excellent communication skills in English both spoken and written. ● You count on an MScs in computing or telecommunications. ● You have more than 10 years’ experience in different roles and at least 5 years as Java and SpringBoot developer and 5 as a solutions architect in a microservices oriented environment. ● You have some certifications in Java, SpringBoot, Docker, Kubernetes and very valuable AWS Certified Solutions Architect and TOGAF. ● You have experience as a developer in Agile squads. ● You have a security-first mentality and you feel super comfortable with cyber-security requirements. ● You master the following technologies, with significant hands on experience and successes in delivering end to end projects and applications: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, SQL, AWS EKS, Docker, Kubernetes. ● You are perfectly productive on Windows and Linux platforms. What We Offer You ● Being part of a transformation, an opportunity to work on the latest technologies, to be a recognized member of engineering inside and outside smallworld and have a lot of fun!● Working in a multinational organization, with offices around the world. ● A training package, access to e-learning platforms and cool equipment (laptop, smartphone) when needed. ● A very competitive salary adjusted to your experience. ● New amazing office at the heart of Karachi. #J-18808-Ljbffr