Lead Solutions Architect - CREST New Technology

The role – Lead Solution Architect – CREST New Technology IT is at the core of […]’s business, providing continuous development, assisting in delivering a cost efficient and high-quality service to its customers. Currently the core business is run on HP NonStop Servers (Tandem). Communications infrastructure and message routing functionality are implemented on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

[…] is starting to evaluate the migration of CREST from COBOL programs running on the HPE NonStop Guardian platform to new technology capable of running on a commoditised platform such as Linux. Key technologies: Java, OpenShift, Databases (Oracle, SQL Server), Kafka.

It is expected that this migration will be an incremental process over a period of years. Our new technology will be Java based and use Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) for integration between the new migrated services and non-migrated legacy CREST system. Platform independence of migrated services is required to allow running on OpenShift Linux environments.

Further responsibilities include but are not limited to: Defining options and providing recommendations for migration from legacy to new event driven and service focused architecture working in collaboration with the […] Enterprise Architecture team, CREST application architects and other parties Delivering a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements Ensuring: that the IT solution fully a