Solutions Architect

About the job At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a startup’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.

R3’s Professional Services is comprised of innovative problem-solvers and strategic, fast-moving engineers and consultants who collaborate with customers to solve their challenges and build business solutions. As part of the post-sales organization, Professional Services is responsible for driving successful customer outcomes through supporting the design, build, and deployment of solutions. This team provides you with the opportunity to solve real-world business and technical challenges with large global corporates, banks, and startups across many industries – Financial Services, Real Estate, Energy, Digital Assets, Identity, and Healthcare.

Responsibilities Your mission as a Solutions Architect is to design and lead the build on customer solutions built on R3’s distributed ledger platform (Corda Enterprise) as well as our future products. This role is a combination of hands-on and an advisory role depending on the client.

• Facilitate architectural and design workshops with customers to understand their business problem
• Lead the design of customer solutions and map customer requirements to R3 product features
• Deliver target architecture and design documents to enable the build phase
• Provide technical vision and leadership in the development of solutions with in-house or customer development teams using Java/Kotlin and R3 incumbent technologies
• Provide Infrastructure blueprints leveraging containers and Kubernetes for deployment on common clouds offerings such as Azure, AWS, or GCP to help provision with Terraform and Ansible
• Train and mentor our customers on R3’s Products and services
• Help customers with their path to production advising on infosec, non-functional requirements, performance testing, and disaster recovery
• Be a voice of the customer by sharing customer insights to support the development of R3’s products

Key Skills Required for the Role

• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company
• Proven experience of converting business requirements into solution designs and delivering an end-to-end software project through design, development, and testing
• Demonstrate high levels of proficiency in software development tasks using Java or a JVM based language or proficient in C++ or C# (backend technology)
• Technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies relevant to
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills to navigate ambiguity and deliver presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in financial industries such as Trade Finance, Capital Markets, and Payments is advantageous

R3 is a leading enterprise technology firm specializing in digital solutions for regulated financial markets. Our technology enables financial markets to operate with greater efficiency, transparency, and enhanced connectivity. Our focus is on progressing markets and fostering an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy.

R3 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive team that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability, and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together. For more information, visit www.r3.com.