Job Description

Thought Machine\'s mission is bold - to properly and permanently rid the world\'s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking and built core and payments technology which runs natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.
We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way. We\'re regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry. We\'ve been named AltFi\'s B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and named one of Europe\'s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times in 2023.
Client architects in Thought Machine work with clients to help them successfully implement Vault Core, providing advice on how to deploy, configure, integrate with and migrate to the platform.

Duties

• Advising clients and prospective clients on how to deploy, configure and integrate with Vault Core
• Presenting Vault Core\'s architecture and best practice to senior client stakeholders within pre-sales engagements
• Working with clients to define target architectures and transition states for implementations of and migrations to Vault Core, applying best practice
• Capturing product features needed to allow clients to realise value and feedback into the internal engineering function, engaging with internal stakeholders and championing those features within the organisation

Requirements

Essential

• Experience designing enterprise architectures for large financial service institutions
• Domain knowledge in financial services, especially core banking
• Strong technical background, ideally experienced in more than one programming paradigm
• Good practical knowledge of established architectural patterns such as event-based architecture, CQRS, and process orchestration.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies including emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery, including running systems across multi-availability zones and regions
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to communicate and defend a technical position to a mixed audience consisting of enterprise architects, engineers and business stakeholders

Desirable

• Familiarity with new and emerging technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Istio and NewSQL databases.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 7%)
• Life insurance - three times annual salary
• Competitive maternity (6 months fully paid) and paternity leave (4 week fully paid)
• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
• 25 days holiday and bank holidays
• Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
• Health cash plan (including dental and optical)
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Two charity days a year
• Weekly food pop up

Thought Machine are committed to making a measurable positive impact on people\'s everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn\'t precisely match the job description.

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