IT Systems Architect

RN Bank is the Finance Company of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance in Russia. The Bank concentrates its efforts on two main business directions: consumer auto loans for Alliance’s brands cars and Alliance’s dealer financing, actively supplementing them with additional financial services. High level of investment reliability of the Bank proved by rating agencies and financial market participants contributes to funding costs reduction allowing to design most attractive financial offers for its customers. Customer focus is a core value of the Bank and its professional, dynamic and cohesive team, striving to anticipate and meet clients’ needs.

In order to strengthen its existing team, the Company is seeking an ‘IT System Architect’, with 3 or more years of practical professional experience IT Systems solutions architecture.

Responsibilities:

• to evaluate the initial business requirements from the customer, regarding the feasibility and optimality of the proposed solutions, according to the existing IT infrastructure
• to offer new solutions and technologies to improve the characteristics of the application / project
• to take part in the development of architectural solutions, the choice of implementation technologies, design (from business architecture to the physical level)
• to take part in designing integration solutions between systems
• to take part in developing technical specifications for an IT solution
• to analyze the technical specifications of external contractors for meeting the customer's requirements and the feasibility of the chosen solution
• to defend proposed solutions at project stakeholder

2. Project activities

• to evaluate labor costs for infrastructure tasks
• to develop project plans
• to take part at testing of IT solutions
• to accept works of internal and external developers

3. Consulting activities

• to advice and mentor teams, to share technical knowledge
• to consult users and technical managers at IT trends and solutions

4. Documenting architecture solutions

• to document current and target infrastructure, including functional and network diagrams, dataflows, main technical solutions, etc.
• to establish integration rules and tools
• to develop high-level documents (policies, instructions, etc)
• to develop other documents of an information system lifecycle.

5. High-level system administration

• to organize and control outsourced system administration and DBA teams
• to administer any system if needed
• to develop auxiliary shell-scripts
• to create user-scripts to delegate tasks to the 1st line of support

6. Following Service desk processes:

• to treat service-desk tasks properly
• to respect all the SLAs

Experience and Skills:

• High Technical Education;
• Experience from 5 years as a lead system administrator, or from 3 years as a system/solution architect
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networks
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft platform
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux platform
• Basic PowerShell scripting knowledge
• Basic Unix shell scripting knowledge
• Awareness of complete project life cycle -design
• Good knowledge of high-availability, virtualisation technologies, enterprise level databases and cloud solutions
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Good knowledge of ITIL and DevOps processes will be a plus
• Intermediate English
• Strong collaboration skills and passion for standards
• Open mind, positive thinking, friendly behavior.

Studies:

A Master’s degree in computer science or Statistics (or a related accredited qualification);

Experience:

Previous work experience in/for a financial or insurance institution will be considered an asset.

The successful candidate will benefit from:

This is an excellent career opportunity offering a pleasant working and learning environment, a competitive salary and additional benefits to the chosen candidate.

Basis:

Full time Indefinite Contract