Solutions Architect

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

Freelance

30-01-2025

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Job Specifications

Required Skills:

• Strong generalist experience in a wide range of the following areas:
• Awareness of Enterprise architecture frameworks and patterns
• Technical architectural design of complex solutions
• Communication at all levels including at an executive level with partners and senior management
• Writing and collaborating in the production of architecture design artefacts
• Ability to work as part of a multi-skilled team, which on occasions could involve a complex matrix management process.

Strong specialist experience across several of the following areas:
• Cloud services (SaaS, PaaS) (AWS preferred)
• Enterprise integration patterns and tooling (MuleSoft preferred)
• Enterprise data, analytics and information management, ETL knowledge
• High volume transactional online systems
• Security and identify management
• Service and micro-service architecture
• Knowledge of continuous integration tools and techniques
• Design and/or development of applications using:
- AWS native services
- Oracle Forms, Pl/SQL, Oracle Reports
- Design of data stores using SQL and/or NoSQL database

About the Company

TESTQ TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED is a global IT services and solutions company headquartered in the UK. Our offerings span various industry sectors with strong technical, domain and process expertise helping clients grow their businesses and decrease operational costs continuously in an ever-changing business environment. Know more

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