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Sopra Banking Software is recruiting a Technical Architect to join our Managed Services team in our Dunstable office. The role of the Technical Architect is to provide technical expertise, support and strategy to our customers and the Managed Services organisation, in particular the sales team to deliver continued growth within the Managed Service business. The Technical Architect will work on a peer level with Account Managers to formulate technical requirements for nominated customers and new business sales projects. It is vital that the architect acts as the lead Technical Authority for these accounts/projects by delivering technical information to the customer in the form of RFI/RFP responses, architectural design, solution costing, related documentation, product updates and industry/competitive analysis. The role is to evangelise the Managed Service portfolio from a technical perspective helping to transform businesses and solving business issues with technology. Open and honest relationships are fundamental and key to our continued growth and as such the architect is expected to develop and maintain excellent relationships both internally within our technical community and colleagues from other functional roles but also externally with our partners and customers for whom we are seen as a technical authority. The ideal candidate As the ideal candidate you will: • Graduate calibre or ideally degree educated in a computer or technology related discipline • 10+ years’ experience in system solutions and delivery within Financial Services, including work experience of projects with major telecom operators. • Expertise in integration and implementation of service-related applications, such as service provisioning, real time charging. • Good working knowledge and understanding of software development technologies and interface development and integration • Good working knowledge and understanding of third party product licensing particularly oracle and Microsoft products. • Good understanding of Data Security concepts and protection systems. • Solid technical background including Unix and Citrix • Strong presentation and communication skills, • Lead technical presentations, demonstrations and client-centric product evaluations • Demonstrations and proofs of concept in collaboration with sales, product specialists and product development • Lead technical responses to RFI / RFP s • Advocate for project success and best practices Have good presentation skills and the ability to design engaging and informative presentations • TOGAF or similar architectural framework experience and qualification • Experience of third party hosting is highly desirable • Network, server and application virtualisation • Cisco Networking (Routing, Firewall, etc.) • Certification in Unix/Oracle/Microsoft/VMWare/Cisco/Citrix • Experience of Scripting (Unix Shell/Windows Automated Tasks/etc.) is desirable • Knowledge of Sopra Applications – MSS/ICS would be highly advantageous The company: Sopra Banking Software provides IT processes, and system solutions to retail banking and asset finance customers. We have operated across Europe, the Middle East, Far East, and Africa for over 40 years. We provide the opportunity to learn and develop new skills and contribute to the advancement of your field - thinking ahead begins now. We are committed to helping you grow and share your expertise while developing a diverse and esteemed network of colleagues from around Europe. You'll also enjoy a competitive salary, pension scheme, and excellent benefits package. As part of our hiring process new employees will be required to pass a consumer credit check and DBS check If you have any concerns about this please raise them with the recruitment team. If your application is for any reason unsuccessful we may hold your CV on record for up to 6 months should any other suitable roles a rise