Solution Architect

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London, Greater London, England
5-7 Years Experience
Automotive • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Solution Architect role at Alfa, responsible for understanding client systems, proposing integration solutions, defining non-functional requirements, collaborating with clients and internal teams, mentoring, and sharing knowledge. Preferred experience in Auto/Equipment Finance Industry, integration with APIs, web services, event streaming, messaging, SaaS, iPaaS, cloud services, databases, performance analysis, Containers, data engineering.
Summary Generated by Built In

Ready to embark on an exhilarating career journey? Join our diverse team and ignite your potential in a growing, innovative environment! Inclusion is the beating heart of Alfa so whoever you are, you can show up as your best self every day - be that from home, from our office, or a little bit of both. We’ve got the tech, we’ve got the opportunities, all we’re missing is you.
 


  • Understand and document our client’s systems and integration landscape and then propose, design & deliver integration solutions.

  • Architect the appropriate business intelligence/data-warehousing approach for integrating from our platform to the client data landscape.

  • Define non-functional requirements (security requirements, scheduling, disaster recovery etc.) and assist with the implementation.

  • Work with our clients to develop performance targets, testing plans and to assist with execution, including the performance tuning of the Alfa application and diagnosing issues.

  • Collaborate with our functional experts to provide guidance to our clients about product functionality including standard methodology and inquisitive workarounds. Work with clients and engineering to add to and manage enhancements on our product roadmap.

  • Support client teams with overall architecture deployment using existing supported platforms or our cloud hosted services as appropriate.

  • Distil and share your knowledge both internally and externally. Mentor and help to shape the next generation of solution architects.


  • Experience in software development, technical advocacy, technical consultancy, technical pre-sales, solution architecture or enterprise architecture.

  • Ability to investigate technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

  • Excellent communication and consultancy skills.

  • Business analysis and client requirement gathering.

  • Knowledge of common integration patterns and approaches.

  • Ability to look at a problem holistically, balancing competing constraints, to identify pragmatic solutions, often in an evolving environment.

  • Experience in mentoring and coaching.


  • Experience in the Auto / Equipment Finance Industry.

  • Integration experience with APIs, web services, event streaming and messaging (Kafka, JMS, SQS etc).

  • Experience with market-leading SaaS or iPaaS solutions.

  • Hands-on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud experience.

  • Database experience, including with reporting systems/data warehousing.

  • Performance analysis, with tools like JProfiler/CodeGuru.

  • Knowledge of Containers (Docker).

  • Knowledge of and experience with data engineering concepts, tooling and patterns.

What we’ll do for you

  • Support you in flexible hybrid or remote working

  • 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days

  • Pension contribution match up to 6%

  • Provide private health insurance and access to private 24/7 online GP

  • Support you with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with family-friendly policies

  • Provide Income protection

  • Provide Life, disability and worldwide travel insurance

  • Offer interest free loans of up to £10,000 after probation period

  • Offer Gympass given access to a range of health and wellbeing gyms, classes and apps


About Alfa
We bring our industry-leading software platform to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and CarMax, so they can do business globally. Supporting all types of auto, equipment and wholesale finance business, our software platform uses a modern technology stack to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our customers use Alfa Systems for the full lifecycle, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency in a highly available, high-throughput system.
Culture
Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.

Top Skills

Java
JavaScript
Python
SQL
The Company
Royal Oak, MI
507 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1990

What We Do

Alfa (formerly CHP Consulting) has been delivering systems and services to the global asset and automotive finance industry since 1990.

Our best practice methodologies and specialised knowledge of asset finance mean that we deliver the largest system implementations and most complex business change projects. With an excellent delivery history over our 27 years in the industry, Alfa's track record is unrivalled.

Alfa Systems, our class-leading technology platform, is at the heart of some of the world's largest asset finance companies. Key to the business case for each implementation is Alfa Systems'​ ability to consolidate multiple client systems on a single platform. Alfa Systems supports both retail and corporate business for auto, equipment, wholesale and dealer finance on a multijurisdictional basis, including leases/loans, originations and servicing. An end-to-end solution with integrated workflow and automated processing using business rules, the opportunities that Alfa Systems presents to asset finance companies are clear and compelling.

With over 30 current clients and 26 countries served, Alfa has offices all over Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States. For more information, visit alfasystems.com.

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