Software Architect (Risk)

Software Architect
We are considering applicants in – Leeds
Style of work – Hybrid

The Global Trading Team (GTT) is on a mission: "To help Flutter create the world's most compelling sports betting products."
As the Architect for Global Risk you will play a pivotal role in this mission by leading system design dedicated to providing traders with the tools they need, delivering real-time risk data in intuitive and useful ways.
We are expanding our risk platform to offer traders the best insights into customer behaviour and to automate some of their key processes. Your technical leadership will be essential in driving these innovations. Join us as an Architect and help shape the future of sports betting by ensuring our traders have the best technology and insights at their fingertips.
As the Risk Architect, you will work in partnership with the Product and Engineering Management to collaborate on ideation, design and validation of our new products and features. You will be part of a large diverse team across many locations so good stakeholder management and communication will be key to success in this role.
You will contribute to the process of defining technical architecture and vision for technical evolution. You will lead the design of solutions to complex business problems while assuring availability and performance. You will contribute to implement architectural design best- practices, planning reduction of technical debt and maximising long-term value of our technology and products. You will provide technical mentorship and support for architectural solution design across the teams in your value stream.
The role will be part of a broader architecture team that collaborate, share and evolve how architectural decision making is made in Flutter tech. The role will report into the Head of Architecture alongside a number of Architecture peers leading design in the other value streams

Who are we?   
Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming company with a market capitlisation of c. $37bn operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector.
A constituent of both the  London FTSE 100  and  New York Stock Exchange , Flutter brings entertainment to life for over 20 million customers in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We call this the  Flutter Edge  – the combined power of our talented people, market-leading products, smart technology and the financial capital to succeed.
Operating in  20+ regulated markets , through our  Positive Impact Plan , we are committed to making a positive contribution for our customers, colleagues, communities and the planet that we play on.
The Group uses a divisional management and operating structure across its companies: each division has an empowered management team, which is responsible for maintaining momentum and growth in its respective markets.
On 14th May 2024, it was announced that Flutter would be moving its  primary listing from the UK to the US,  and its global operational headquarters from Dublin to New York (effective 31st May 2024).

Your new role will involve:

• Work with agile teams focused on delivering on OKR initiatives

• Be involved from the proof of concept through to the production release

• Contribute to defining the strategic technical direction and vision for Risk architecture to enable greater scale, resilience, and agility, while simplifying the architecture and total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Work with the other architects across the Group to ensure that future requirements accommodated in design

• Be an active member of the technology-wide architecture community

• Search, research and prototype new technologies to create a new application or improve existing applications

• Apply solution design principles to ensure that design decisions safely and sustainably made

• Propose most effective architectural solutions to meet cost, quality, performance and timeline requirements.

• Be comfortable with conflict and effectively communicate trade-offs between conflicting demands across different teams, short-term imperatives and long-term goals (e.g. TCO or increased velocity)

• Evaluation, conceptualization, design and integration of new features and enhancements into our risk products, ensuring that product design and technology choices anticipate future needs

• Lead creation and culture of solution design documentation in the value stream

• Coordinate with software development team in developing and implementing software applications

• Assist software engineering teams in analyzing project requirements and perform application design

• Participate in design, code and test plan reviews as needed and provide appropriate recommendations

• Consult on larger software issues and recommend workaround solutions

• Modelling Domain and Services (design patterns, domain driven design, micro architecture & SOA)

• Component design (for example load, availability and reliability are a must at design stage, not afterthoughts)

• Expert in non-functional requirements (eg, scalability, availability, observability, security) and provide oversight

• Experience designing in cloud environments (preferably AWS) and architecting cloud native solutions

•  Understanding of the managed services and tech available in the cloud and the compromises with each

Key Skills:

• Solid understanding of the software development life-cycle (SDLC)

• Experienced in the usage of appropriate reusability techniques (design patterns, library extraction, new component creation) and mentoring team members towards cleaner more maintainable components

• Be an expert in a JVM/.Net programming language

• 3+ year’s experience in software architecture and design

• Familiar in designing, documenting and developing highly available, extensible systems that can scale to the groups demands

• Experienced in distributed systems design that can operate at scale and low latency

What you’ll bring:

• A technical background with a proven track record of leading design and transformation of complex software systems at a scale comparable to those in our risk eco-system

• Ability to influence and drive change across the value stream, advocating for necessary improvements and investments in the simplification, performance, and evolution of our tech.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to engage, negotiate, and collaborate effectively throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring successful outcomes.

• Experience in long-term planning and strategic thinking to foresee and mitigate potential risks and challenges.

• Ability to lead technical discussions, inspire the team, and drive towards technical excellence, ensuring high quality outcomes.

• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills that allow for creative and open problem solving to challenges we’ll face

Benefits:

• Uncapped Holiday Allowance (you read that right!)

• Enhanced Pension Scheme (please ask for your location and we will share)

• Bonus Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Income protection

• Private healthcare (with option to add dependent)

• £/₤1,000 annual self-development learning fund & Access to thousands of Udemy courses

• Invest via the Company Share save Scheme, Discount vouchers, Volunteering days.

• Enhanced Parental Leave and paid time off for appointments.

• Reward portal eg. electric car scheme, gym membership discounts etc.

• Wellbeing scheme

• On-site Gym, Canteen and Gaming area plus many more!

At Flutter we’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us one of the Top Workplaces in the area.