2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise solution architecture for legacy modernization initiatives covering applications, integration, data, cloud, security, DevSecOps, observability, and operational supportability.
- Assess monolithic platforms, shared databases, batch workflows, reporting workloads, integration dependencies, and operational constraints to define modernization priorities.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into modernization roadmaps, architecture decisions, solution blueprints, service boundaries, data models, deployment views, and implementation guidance.
- Design enterprise integration solutions using event streaming, messaging, APIs, adapters, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and reconciliation patterns.
- Architect cloud-native and platform-agnostic solutions using Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AKS, GKE, Azure, and related deployment, networking, identity, and secrets-management capabilities.
- Define high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures, including failover, backup and restore, cross-region or cross-cloud resilience, and RPO/RTO targets.
- Support phased modernization through strangler patterns, parallel runs, data reconciliation, cutover readiness, rollback planning, and legacy decommissioning.
- Facilitate solution discussions with business, product, operations, risk, compliance, data, infrastructure, security, DevOps, QA, and client technology stakeholders.
- Create current-state assessments, target-state blueprints, interface specifications, sequence flows, deployment views, data-flow diagrams, technology decision records, and architecture summaries.
- Work with engineering teams to ensure designs are implementable, testable, observable, secure, migration-ready, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
Requirements
- Strong enterprise solution architecture experience in large-scale legacy modernization, application transformation, distributed systems, financial services platforms, or high-volume transaction processing environments.
- Deep understanding of microservices, domain-driven design, API design, service-owned databases, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Hands-on knowledge of Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms, IBM MQ, gRPC, FIX, SFTP, schema registries, message transformation, replayability, retries, exception handling, and reconciliation.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, cloud-native deployment, Terraform, secrets management, GitOps, and DevSecOps engineering practices.
- Working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP services, cloud landing zones, networking, identity, security, observability, resilience, and workload deployment patterns.
- Exposure to Azure architecture and Microsoft modernization patterns, including App Services, AKS, Azure SQL or SQL Server modernization, Entra ID, Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.
- Strong understanding of .NET, C#, WPF, Microsoft SQL Server, stored procedures, SSIS, SSRS, Azure services, PostgreSQL, Redis, relational modeling, and reporting platforms.
- Experience defining migration approaches such as strangler patterns, phased cutovers, parallel runs, dual operation, output reconciliation, rollback, hyper-care, and legacy decommissioning.
- Experience defining non-functional requirements, performance baselines, availability models, disaster recovery approaches, observability KPIs, operational runbooks, and support models.
- Ability to communicate with business stakeholders, product owners, operations users, engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and client technology teams.
- Financial services, capital markets, trade lifecycle, risk, regulatory reporting, data warehouse modernization, or operational resilience experience is advantageous.
- Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, and TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work across complex enterprise Azure environments and help shape the Managed Services capability.
- Opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, influence standards and automation, mentor engineers, and work closely with customers and technical teams.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAzureC#DockerGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCKubernetesMicrosoft SQL Server.NETOpenShiftPostgreSQLRedisTerraform
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Ascent
Ascent Global Logistics provides expedited, time-critical transportation and freight management for shippers, spanning domestic brokerage, international freight forwarding, and managed logistics. The company connects customers to a carrier network through its PEAK digital marketplace and also operates its own cargo airline (USA Jet Airlines) for on-demand air charters. Founded in 2017, Ascent is headquartered in Belleville, Michigan and is privately held by H.I.G. Capital.