At Brown Brothers Harriman, we believe no job is too big or small for any of us to handle if it helps our clients. We value passionate, committed people who enjoy collaborating with others to find new solutions to complex business challenges. We are looking for the type of person who speaks their mind, truly listens and steps outside their role to add value wherever they can.

Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution. Above all, we seek someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in protecting and enhancing our client’s financial well-being.

Join BBH as a FinTech System Architect!

BBH is looking for a talented Fintech System Architect will work across the teams within Fintech.  S/he will help to ensure that optimal technical solutions and recommendations are provided in-line with industry best practices and the firm’s technology standards.

S/he will work closely with Fintech development teams to help with design, development and evolution of Fintech solutions. The Architect will provide architecture guidelines to development teams and will help research and design innovative solutions.

This role will also act as a spokesperson for our Fintech business colleagues to ensure the appropriate decisions are made related to client related technology development, prioritization and maintenance activities.  S/he participates in evaluating prospective new business cases and product development opportunities through IRG. S/he also assists in setting the strategy and direction for the division.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in software engineering including 5+ years of technical experience in the architecture, design and development of various applications utilizing a wide range of technologies and vendor platforms

• Strong knowledge of architectural principles, frameworks, design patterns and industry best practices for design and development

• Strong experience in core Java

• Strong experience in JMS

• Experience with Spring (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security) or JEE platform (CDI, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, JAX-WS)

• Strong foundation in Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns

• SQL – must be able to write simple to moderate complexity SQL queries

• Experience with ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate, OpenJPA)

• Experience with frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Spock

• Web development skills

• Experience with WebServices (SOAP, REST)

• Automated build platforms/continuous integration experience and knowledge (Jenkins, Hudson, Maven, Gradle)

• Experience with test automation tools (Selenium/WebDriver, JBehave)

• Experience with Apache Camel, Mulesoft

• Knowledge and applying TDD principles in practice

• Ability to interpret and troubleshoot applications using logs (troubleshooting Java memory issues, analyzing java heap/thread dumps, troubleshooting application issues)

• Experience with Unix platforms

• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

• Problem solving skills, able to determine upcoming risks & issues and address them

• Knowledge of no SQL data bases

• Excellent communication skills

What We Offer:

• Private medical care for you and your family

• Life Insurance

• Hybrid Working Opportunities

• 2 additional days added to your holiday calendar for Culture Celebration and Community Service

• Various additional benefits including professional training and qualification support

• Subsidised cafeteria

• Contracts for an indefinite period of time with no probation period

Some of your key responsibilities include:  

• Engage with architects, engineers, business partners, clients, and other systems areas to deliver the best Fintech solutions, build/execute on new ideas, improve on existing concepts or products, and create new ideas for improving the product suite

• Write and/or review technical specification documentation which may include architecture design, interfaces design, data modelling, dataflow diagramming, screen design, workflow analysis, etc.

• Communicate and promote technology and architecture standards among development teams, business teams, and vendors

• Ensure methodology is followed for the project; provide meaningful feedback in accordance with company standards and guidelines

• Identify risks and opportunities and help define technology roadmaps

• Manage the existing suite of Fintech applications across a variety of technical stacks

• Manage & Deliver enterprise level applications in a cloud, web based distributed, Java JEE environment