About Apex
Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global
financial services provider. With 50 offices worldwide and 5,000
employees upon the close of announced acquisitions, Apex delivers
an extensive range of services to asset managers, capital markets,
private clients and family offices. The Group has continually
improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source
solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the
industry including fund services, digital onboarding and bank
accounts, depositary, custody and super ManCo services, business
services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and
Advisory service for private companies.
We look to recruit bright, articulate and numerate employees who
are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and
love what they do.
Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the
more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your
career path or specialism Apex provides a global platform to allow
you to thrive.
The Role:
The successful applicant for this position should have 5+ years as
a software or solution architect. The Application Architecture Lead
will be guiding the architecture of the solutions that the team is
working on as well as validating solution designs.
The Application Architecture Lead will also need to interpret, use
and applying information to support a range of strategic
activities, particularly those involved in the integration and
transformation of applications across the group.
Key duties and responsibilities:
• Guide a team of Software Architects and be proactive in the
development of new integration platforms, models, processes, and
concepts;
• Help and support the development of Agile best practices
framework across the Software Architecture and Software Development
teams;
• Understand the architectural directions, frameworks, patterns,
and subsystems of our organization;
• Presenting regular progress reports and setting goals;
• Creating data architecture models using best practices;
• Mentoring and coaching our team members in architectural and
technical best practices and issues;
• Work with project stakeholders and provide status updates, risks
and escalate to have them resolved;
• Identify risks, issues, and assumptions with the application
landscape;
• Collaborate with business and IT teams to implement and
transition to future state architecture;
• Be a problem solver capable of translating business needs into
technology solutions;
• Ensure that the design being applied meets policies, principles,
and standards;
• Ensure that the solution will be easy to support by encouraging
good design and refactoring to minimize technical debt;
• Working on large projects with multiple applications, interfaces,
and stakeholders.
