Position: PokerStars Solutions Architect
Company: SD Solutions
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

On behalf of PokerStars (Flutter), SD Solutions is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Web Platform tribe.

SD Solutions is a staffing company operating globally. Contact us to get more details about the benefits we offer.

**Responsibilities:
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- Work on one of the most critical, strategic projects at the heart of the world’s largest public online gaming business.
- Deliver and communicate an architectural vision and roadmap for the tribe that is understood and supported by the whole business and that provides clear, achievable principles and direction for the technology team to follow.
- Be part of an architectural guild that leads on wider technical designs and direction.
- Peer with Product, Platform, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to deliver sustainable, high-performance products, services, and solutions to provide the best possible experience for our customers.
- Work with the Head of Architecture, Solutions Architects and the wider architectural community to define best practices and ways of working.
- Evangelizing/L&D/Architecture concepts to wider International and Divisional teams.
- Help define/evangelise Architecture principles within International and their alignment with the wider architecture community.
- Identify/share best practices.
- Collaborate across multiple tribes to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose and meet the overall strategy as well as project requirements.
- Drive the creation of Tech Radars / Menus in each of the areas and their guidelines for use.
- Drive the creation and maintenance of city plans.
- Promote more structured capture/communication of Technical Decision Records.
- Assist with recruitment and onboarding of new starters.
**Requirements**:

- Knowledge of Agile development culture.
- Experience working with stakeholders.
- A passionate and data-driven individual with a focus on the customer experience.
- Ability to prioritise high volumes of responsibilities without delays in deliverables.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, multiple development styles and methodologies, with a strong aptitude for defining both business and technical requirements.
- Excellent communication, relationship management and attention to detail skills.
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines with a can-do attitude.
- Betting and Gaming industry domain knowledge.
**Experience with:
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- High volume, highly available, transactional web applications.
- Modelling, measuring and forecasting capacity.
- Event-driven and reactive systems.
- Message-based architectures designing for scalability.
- Relational and non-relational data stores.
- Service-based approaches (e.g. REST, SOA, Microservices).
- Network and web application security.
- General understanding of data centre technologies (SAN, blades, virtualisation etc).
- Automated Testing (especially BDD toolkits), Continuous Integration and Deployment.
**About the company:
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PokerStars is part of Flutter Entertainment Plc, a global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider headquartered in Dublin and part of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange. Flutter brings together exceptional brands, products, and businesses and a diverse global presence in a safe, responsible and ultimately sustainable way.