Solutions Architect (Java) at ING in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

Job Overview

As an IT Integrator, you will be a key player in the cooperation between IT and Business stakeholders. You drive to make complex changes happen within and across Tribes. Your holistic view as well as your knowledge of both Business and IT are crucial in translating business requirements into business value. You align between squads – from the same or different Tribe(s) – and other parts of the organization and manage dependencies.

Key Responsibilities

· Interpretation of business rules and functional and non-functional requirements to define technical specifications based on an architectural design provided in terms of interaction among systems, data exchange, transformations following a specific design methodology

· Participates and cooperates in shaping activities, participates in feasibility analyses for new or upgraded initiatives (Epic and User Story) assessing the impacts for IT as well as participating and supporting developers in the development phase

· Performs detailed, functional and technical analysis/design

· Test support and problem determination

· Collaborates in defining new suppliers and contractual requirements

· Breaks down requirements and technical solution into appropriate section (User Story) examining costs, benefits and risks of various options before selecting an approach; explanation/justification of decisions in a logical and systematic manner

· Conducts code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members

· Optimizes application performance for maximum speed and scalability.

Key Capabilities/Experience

· 4+ years of experience in software development projects preferably in Agile methodology

· Experience in designing backend solutions and developing container based backend applications

o Java + Spring Boot is not required, but nice to have

· Experience in any of the following Frontend development technologies:

o Android – Kotlin

o iOS – Swift

o Web - Lit, React, Vue, Angular, Svelte

· Experience in the same role in a complex environment with 24/7 service availability

· Excellent knowledge of the existing IT architecture (for the relevant domain) and technical flows

Minimum Qualifications

· Problem solving skills to find creative ways of driving progress and removing impediments

· Analytic skills for creating end-to-end solutions

· A team player mindset, with a 'make it happen' mentality, eager to learn and the ability to coach others

· Good communication skills in English, strong communication and presentation skills (telling – selling) across different skill and seniority levels

· Main areas of knowledge:

o Microservices architecture and domain design model

o Advanced experience in REST & SOAP application consuming

o Technology landscape (application level) of the relevant domain

o DBMS and SQL (e.g., Oracle, PL/ SQL)

o JUnit testing, test driven development and Spring integration testing

o UML standards

o Agile paradigm

o Scrum