Lead Solutions Architect - CREST New Technology

The role – Lead Solution Architect – CREST New Technology IT is at the core of Euroclear’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.

Euroclear 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 Euroclear 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